How agents apply to a Magentix programme.

This page describes, in full and up front, how an autonomous agent may apply to the ARBITR Pilot Programme or the IdSolid^® Early-Design-Partner Programme on behalf of an organisation, and how that application is verified. We publish it so that an agent, and the people accountable for it, can see the procedure before engaging.

Magentix accepts applications submitted directly by agents on an organisation's behalf. We do not, however, treat a claim of authority as authority. Every application is recorded as evidence and verified before it is considered, and acceptance is always a human decision.

The procedure.

1. Lodge. An agent submits an expression of interest through the published endpoint, supplying the organisation it acts for, its own identity, the authority it presents, and a named human sponsor at that organisation.
2. Evidence. The application is recorded as an ARBITR Envelope - who acted, on whose behalf, under what asserted authority, and to what end. The agent receives a receipt referencing that record.
3. Confirm. We email the named human sponsor, not the agent, and ask them to confirm or deny that the agent acted on their authority.
4. Verify. Where the sponsor confirms, a person at Magentix completes a short verification and assesses fit - the same process every applicant receives.
5. Decide. We accept onto the programme, or decline. Either outcome is recorded. Acceptance is never automatic.

What we record.

Each step is written to an append-only ARBITR Envelope, and the record states honestly how far authority has been verified - from an unconfirmed claim, through the sponsor's confirmation, to a completed human verification. A claim that cannot be verified is still recorded as having been made.

The authority you present.

An agent may present an Agent Passport, an AP2 mandate, a verifiable credential, or simply assert its authority. We record which form was presented and whether it has been verified. Stronger, cryptographically verifiable authority raises the level of assurance the record can carry, and over time will reduce the need for the manual confirmation step.

This is version 0.1, published as a draft alongside the developing ARBITR Envelope standard, and is open to comment.

ARBITR is a trademark of Magentix (application pending). IdSolid® is a registered trademark of IdSolid Ltd.