# The ~alter Protocol Stack > Machine-readable copy. Canonical source: protocol-stack.data.json. > Generated by scripts/gen-protocol-stack.mjs — do not edit by hand. The wire-level behaviour behind ~handle addressing, discovery, agreements, and provenance is written in the open. An identity layer is only as trustworthy as the standards it rests on, so each piece is published as an individual Internet-Draft anyone can read, implement, and challenge. Every document below is an individual Internet-Draft. None is endorsed by the IETF, adopted by a working group, or published as an RFC; none carries formal standing in the standards process. The drafts hold the normative behaviour. This page is the map. ## Identity addressing _How an identity is named and referenced._ ### draft-morrison-alter-uri-scheme The 'alter' URI Scheme for Dispatchable ~handle References A URI scheme so a ~handle reference can be resolved and acted on as a link. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-alter-uri-scheme/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ### draft-morrison-identity-pronouns Identity Pronouns: A Reference-Axis Extension to ~handle Identity Systems A reference-axis grammar that sits orthogonal to the ~handle tier taxonomy. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-identity-pronouns/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ## Discovery _How an agent finds the identity surface._ ### draft-morrison-mcp-dns-discovery Discovery of Model Context Protocol Servers via DNS TXT Records Discover Model Context Protocol servers through DNS TXT records. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-mcp-dns-discovery/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ### draft-morrison-mcp-tool-surface-names-registry An IANA Registry for Model Context Protocol Tool Surface Names A proposed IANA registry for naming MCP tool surfaces. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-mcp-tool-surface-names-registry/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ## Agreements and attribution _How principals agree, and how work is attributed._ ### draft-morrison-identity-accord Identity Accord Protocol: A Peer Ceremony for Bilateral Agreements Between Identity-Substrate-Bound Principals A peer ceremony for reaching a bilateral agreement between two identity-bound principals. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-identity-accord/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ### draft-morrison-identity-attributed-commits Identity-Attributed Git Commits via Tier-Structured Trailers Tier-structured git trailers that attribute a commit to a handle and the instrument that drafted it. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-identity-attributed-commits/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ### draft-morrison-reviewed-by-trailer Reviewed-By Trailer: Sovereign-Portable Peer-Review Attribution for Content-Hash-Bound Artefacts A portable trailer that attributes a peer review to the artefact it reviewed. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-reviewed-by-trailer/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ## Coordination and delivery _How concurrent sessions coordinate and how decisions reach a principal._ ### draft-morrison-substrate-observation Substrate-Observation as an Alternative to Envelope Coordination for Concurrent Sessions Coordinating concurrent sessions by observing the substrate rather than exchanging coordination envelopes. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-substrate-observation/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ### draft-morrison-agent-channel-fan-out An Agent-Channel Frame for Identity-Keyed Fan-Out Delivery to Concurrent Sessions An identity-keyed frame for fanning a delivery out to concurrent sessions. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-agent-channel-fan-out/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ### draft-morrison-binding-moment-envelope The Briefing-and-Binding Envelope: A Delivery Contract for Agent-to-Principal Decision Moments with Dual-Veto Reconciliation A delivery contract for an agent-to-principal decision moment, with a dual-veto reconciliation. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-binding-moment-envelope/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ## Provenance and governance _How inference location, output provenance, and inherited policy are made legible._ ### draft-morrison-compute-location-gate The Compute-Location Gate: Provenance-Class Routing of Identity Inference with Wire-Layer Refusal of Unconsented Provenance Classes Negotiating where an identity inference computes, at the wire layer before any inference runs, as a function of the input's provenance class. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-compute-location-gate/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ### draft-morrison-substrate-provenance-grammar Substrate-Provenance Annotation Grammar for Large-Language-Model Output An annotation grammar for tagging language-model output with its provenance. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-substrate-provenance-grammar/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. ### draft-morrison-org-alter-policy-provision Policy Provision and Governance Inheritance from an Organisational Identity Substrate Provisioning policy and inheriting governance from an organisational identity substrate. - Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-morrison-org-alter-policy-provision/ - Status: Internet-Draft (individual submission): active, not WG-adopted, not an RFC, no formal IETF standing. --- Status reflects the IETF datatracker as observed on the date above. Internet-Drafts expire six months after posting. Follow each datatracker link for the current revision and state. Observed 2026-06-01.