% ── IETF RFCs and Standards ──────────────────────────────────────────────

@misc{rfc7519,
  author       = {M. Jones and J. Bradley and N. Sakimura},
  title        = {{JSON Web Token (JWT)}},
  howpublished = {RFC 7519},
  year         = {2015},
  url          = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7519},
}

@misc{rfc7515,
  author       = {M. Jones and J. Bradley and N. Sakimura},
  title        = {{JSON Web Signature (JWS)}},
  howpublished = {RFC 7515},
  year         = {2015},
  url          = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7515},
}

@misc{rfc2026,
  author       = {S. Bradner},
  title        = {{The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3}},
  howpublished = {RFC 2026},
  year         = {1996},
  url          = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2026},
}

@misc{rfc8693,
  author       = {M. Jones and A. Nadalin and B. Campbell and J. Bradley and C. Mortimore},
  title        = {{OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange}},
  howpublished = {RFC 8693},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8693},
}

% ── WIMSE Architecture ──────────────────────────────────────────────────

@misc{wimse-arch,
  author       = {{WIMSE Working Group}},
  title        = {{Workload Identity in Multi System Environments (WIMSE) Architecture}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/wimse/about/},
}

@misc{spiffe,
  author       = {{SPIFFE Project}},
  title        = {{SPIFFE: Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone}},
  howpublished = {CNCF Project},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://spiffe.io},
}

% ── The ECT Draft ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────

@misc{ect-draft,
  author       = {Christian Nennemann},
  title        = {{Execution Context Tokens for Distributed Agentic Workflows}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-nennemann-wimse-ect-00},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = feb,
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nennemann-wimse-ect/},
}

% ── Competing/Complementary IETF Drafts ─────────────────────────────────

@misc{daap-v2,
  author       = {Aylward, Jonathan},
  title        = {{Distributed AI Accountability Protocol (DAAP) Version 2.0}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-aylward-daap-v2},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-aylward-daap-v2/},
}

@misc{stamp,
  author       = {Guy, Bary},
  title        = {{Secure Task-bound Agent Message Proof (STAMP) Protocol}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-guy-bary-stamp-protocol},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-guy-bary-stamp-protocol/},
}

@misc{agentic-jwt,
  author       = {Goswami, Anirudh},
  title        = {{Secure Intent Protocol: JWT Compatible Agentic Identity and Workflow Management}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-goswami-agentic-jwt},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-goswami-agentic-jwt/},
}

@misc{verif-conv,
  author       = {Birkholz, Henk},
  title        = {{Verifiable Agent Conversation Records}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-birkholz-verifiable-agent-conversations},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-birkholz-verifiable-agent-conversations/},
}

@misc{trans-att,
  author       = {{MW et al.}},
  title        = {{Transitive Attestation for Sovereign Workloads: A WIMSE Profile}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-mw-wimse-transitive-attestation},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mw-wimse-transitive-attestation/},
}

@misc{txn-tokens,
  author       = {{OAuth Working Group}},
  title        = {{Transaction Tokens For Agents}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-oauth-transaction-tokens-for-agents},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-oauth-transaction-tokens-for-agents/},
}

@misc{actor-chain,
  author       = {{MW et al.}},
  title        = {{Cryptographically Verifiable Actor Chain for OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-mw-spice-actor-chain},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mw-spice-actor-chain/},
}

@misc{hjs,
  author       = {Wang, et al.},
  title        = {{HJS: An Accountability Layer for AI Agents}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-wang-hjs-accountability},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-hjs-accountability/},
}

% ── Other Referenced Drafts ──────────────────────────────────────────────

@misc{agent-recovery,
  author       = {Yue, et al.},
  title        = {{Task-Oriented Multi-Agent Recovery Framework for High-Reliability in Converged Mobile Networks}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-yue-anima-agent-recovery-networks},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yue-anima-agent-recovery-networks/},
}

@misc{agents-policy,
  author       = {Srijal},
  title        = {{AGENTS.TXT: Strict Policy File for Automated Clients}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-srijal-agents-policy},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-srijal-agents-policy/},
}

% ── Companion Paper ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────

@misc{landscape-survey,
  author       = {Nennemann, Christian},
  title        = {{The AI Agent Standardization Wave: A Quantitative Analysis of 260 IETF Internet-Drafts on Autonomous Agents and Artificial Intelligence}},
  howpublished = {arXiv preprint},
  year         = {2026},
  note         = {Companion landscape survey paper},
}

% ── Related Work ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

@misc{opentelemetry,
  author       = {{OpenTelemetry Project}},
  title        = {{OpenTelemetry Specification}},
  howpublished = {CNCF Project},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://opentelemetry.io},
}

@misc{w3c-prov,
  author       = {Luc Moreau and Paolo Missier},
  title        = {{PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model}},
  howpublished = {W3C Recommendation},
  year         = {2013},
  url          = {https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/},
}

@misc{scitt,
  author       = {{IETF SCITT Working Group}},
  title        = {{Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency, and Trust (SCITT)}},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/scitt/about/},
}

@misc{a2a-protocol,
  author       = {{Google}},
  title        = {{Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol Specification}},
  howpublished = {Technical Report},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://github.com/google/A2A},
}

@misc{mcp-protocol,
  author       = {{Anthropic}},
  title        = {{Model Context Protocol (MCP) Specification}},
  howpublished = {Technical Report},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://modelcontextprotocol.io},
}

% ── Academic References ─────────────────────────────────────────────────

@inproceedings{brown2020,
  author    = {Brown, Tom and Mann, Benjamin and Ryder, Nick and others},
  title     = {{Language Models are Few-Shot Learners}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {2020},
}