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Web4 Node State and Admission Requirements.

Internet-Draft draft-jacobs-web4-node-state-admission-00. Authored by Tim Jacobs and published by the IETF Datatracker on 2026-08-16 as an Active Internet-Draft, intended status Informational. Canonical record: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jacobs-web4-node-state-admission/.

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The Internet-Draft defines the observable node-state and admission requirements for a Web4 federation: the machine-readable manifests a candidate node must publish, the state transitions a federation authority may perform on that node, and the minimum evidence surfaces required for admission, promotion, demotion and revocation. The draft is written as a protocol document — it specifies observable behaviour, not implementation.

The draft cites the Machine Entity Comprehension paper (DOI 10.5281/ZENODO.21943877) for the black-box conformance framework it re-uses at the node-identity boundary, and is related to the Sovereign Web4 Federation paper (DOI 10.5281/ZENODO.21949720) for the federation architecture on which the admission state machine operates. See the Related work section above for the complete relation set (Drafts 1–3 and Papers 3–4).

The draft is authored by Tim Jacobs. It is currently an Active Internet-Draft at revision 00, intended status Informational. The authoritative source of the draft's content is the IETF Datatracker record linked above and the IETF archive XML/TXT sources; this page is a discovery and citation surface for those sources, not a re-hosting of them.

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Jacobs, T. (2026). Web4 Node State and Admission Requirements. Internet-Draft draft-jacobs-web4-node-state-admission-00. IETF Datatracker. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jacobs-web4-node-state-admission/

BibTeX

@misc{jacobs2026web4nodestate,
  author       = {Jacobs, Tim},
  title        = {Web4 Node State and Admission Requirements},
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-jacobs-web4-node-state-admission-00},
  organization = {IETF Datatracker},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {August},
  day          = {16},
  url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jacobs-web4-node-state-admission/},
  note         = {Active Internet-Draft, intended status Informational. ORCID: 0009-0008-7130-1448. Individual Internet-Draft, work in progress. Not an RFC, Internet Standard, IETF-approved document, working-group document or statement of IETF endorsement.}
}
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