# Evidence Record: Web4 Internet-Draft Series

- **Federation Node:** NODE-1 (ktsglobal.live) — kts-global-evidence-locker
- **Evidence ID:** web4-ietf-series-2026-08
- **Date logged:** 2026-08-08
- **Verification performed (UTC):** 2026-08-08T04:42:00Z
- **Status:** VERIFIED — Primary Source (Claims 1–2); Internal-Record (Claim 3)
- **Bucket:** kts-global-evidence-locker
- **Path:** `claimreviews/web4-ietf-series-2026-08/evidence.md`

> Verification note: Every externally-verifiable fact in this record was
> independently retrieved by the builder from the IETF Datatracker and the
> canonical IETF Internet-Draft repository (`www.ietf.org/archive/id/`) at the
> verification timestamp above. Where the originally-submitted claim text
> differed from the authoritative source, the **authoritative source value is
> recorded** and the discrepancy is flagged in the Corrections section.

---

## Claim 1 — VERIFIED (Primary Source)

Tim Jacobs (KTS Global) authored and published an individual IETF
Internet-Draft titled **"Web4 Sovereign Entity Comprehension: Requirements and
External Conformance Framework"**
(`draft-jacobs-web4-sovereign-entity-comprehension-00`).

- **Primary source:** <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jacobs-web4-sovereign-entity-comprehension/>
- **Canonical text:** <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-jacobs-web4-sovereign-entity-comprehension-00.txt>
- **Author (from document header):** `T. Jacobs — KTS Global`
- **Intended status:** Informational
- **Revision:** `-00`
- **Document date (authoritative header):** **5 August 2026**
- **Expires:** 6 February 2027
- **Datatracker status:** Active Internet-Draft (individual) — state `draft/active`; IESG state `I-D Exists` (`idexists`)
- **RFC stream:** none assigned (`stream = null`)
- **Standards level:** none (`std_level = null`)

**Verification method:** Direct retrieval from the IETF Datatracker
(`/api/v1/doc/document/...` → HTTP 200) and from the canonical Internet-Draft
text archive (HTTP 200, 42,596 bytes). Document status confirmed as
"Active Internet-Draft (individual)" by resolving the Datatracker state
references to `draft/active` and `draft-iesg/idexists`. Authorship
(`T. Jacobs / KTS Global`) confirmed **from the document's own byline**, not
from a secondary index.

- **Archived source capture:** `sources/draft-jacobs-web4-sovereign-entity-comprehension-00.txt`
- **SHA-256 (source text):** `7cbba55ede8ff164423192027218d88effc45c5a29122c60691db6e7d5102d62`

---

## Claim 2 — VERIFIED (Primary Source)

Tim Jacobs (KTS Global) authored and published a second individual IETF
Internet-Draft titled **"Web4 Terminology and Definitions"**
(`draft-jacobs-web4-terminology-00`), which formally defines the terms
**Web4, Sovereign Entity, Federation Node, Tiering, Machine Comprehension,
Conformance Class, Reference Implementation,** and **Adjudication Record**, and
which normatively cross-references Claim 1 above.

- **Primary source:** <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jacobs-web4-terminology/>
- **Canonical text:** <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-jacobs-web4-terminology-00.txt>
- **Author (from document header):** `T. Jacobs — KTS Global` ("Individual Submission")
- **Intended status:** Informational
- **Revision:** `-00`
- **Document date (authoritative header):** **8 August 2026**
- **Expires:** 9 February 2027
- **Datatracker status:** Active Internet-Draft (individual) — state `draft/active`; IESG state `I-D Exists`
- **RFC stream:** none assigned
- **Standards level:** none

**Defined-terms verification** (all eight present in the source text):

| Term | Present |
|------|---------|
| Web4 | ✅ |
| Sovereign Entity | ✅ |
| Federation Node | ✅ |
| Tiering | ✅ |
| Machine Comprehension | ✅ |
| Conformance Class | ✅ |
| Reference Implementation | ✅ |
| Adjudication Record | ✅ |

**Cross-reference verification (confirmed):** `draft-jacobs-web4-terminology-00`
cites `draft-jacobs-web4-sovereign-entity-comprehension` as **`[JACOBS-MEC]`**
in its **Section 8 — Informative References** (not Normative References). The
citation text in the source reads verbatim:

```
   [JACOBS-MEC]
              Jacobs, T., "Web4 Sovereign Entity Comprehension:
              Requirements and External Conformance Framework", August
              2026, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jacobs-web4-
              sovereign-entity-comprehension/>.
```

The abstract also references `[JACOBS-MEC]` ("... including but not limited to
[JACOBS-MEC] ...").

**Verification method:** Direct retrieval from the IETF Datatracker
(`/api/v1/doc/document/...` → HTTP 200) and the canonical Internet-Draft text
archive (HTTP 200, 10,463 bytes). Cross-reference and defined terms confirmed by
inspecting the source text directly.

- **Archived source capture:** `sources/draft-jacobs-web4-terminology-00.txt`
- **SHA-256 (source text):** `30876cbef4242551685a609c774ea814221ddf5672eb29f78a1540ca0c4fd538`

---

## Disambiguation

### Positive disambiguation

Both documents are real, publicly retrievable artifacts on an
IETF-Trust-operated system of record (the IETF Datatracker) and its canonical
Internet-Draft text archive. Authorship, dates, titles, and the
cross-reference are independently verifiable by any third party **without
reliance on KTS Global's own infrastructure** — as demonstrated by the byte-exact
source captures archived alongside this record with published SHA-256 anchors.

### Negative disambiguation (what this evidence does NOT establish)

1. **IETF Datatracker publication does NOT constitute IETF endorsement,
   Working Group adoption, or any formal standards-track status.** Both
   documents are individual submissions with **no RFC stream assigned**
   (`stream = null`), **no standards level** (`std_level = null`), and IESG
   state `I-D Exists`. "Intended status: Informational" is an author
   declaration, not an IETF determination.

2. **Publication does NOT independently verify any claim made *within* the
   documents** about the operational status, node count, or architecture of the
   KTS Global federation. Those claims require separate evidentiary support
   (see Claim 3, which is internal-record-sourced).

3. **The terminology defined in `draft-jacobs-web4-terminology-00` is
   descriptive and non-binding.** It does not obligate any other party to adopt
   this vocabulary.

---

## Claim 3 — INTERNAL RECORD ONLY (not independently third-party verifiable)

The KTS Global Authority Network, cited informally as the reference
implementation context for the Web4 terminology, operated **21 active
federation nodes** (NODE-1 through NODE-21) as of the evidence date.

- **Internal source:** NODE-1 canonical topology
  (`public/api/authority-network/topology.json`), lineage: Federation Tying
  v1.1 build records → current fabric.
- **Verified internal state at logging time:**
  - `topology_version = 2026-08-01-v3.4.0-fabric`
  - `node_count = 21`; enumerated nodes = `NODE-1 … NODE-21` (21/21)
  - `authoritative_node = NODE-1`
  - live corroboration: `https://ktsglobal.live/api/authority-network/topology.json` → HTTP 200, `node_count = 21`
  - `federation_state.cycle = v1.2` (`knowledge-fabric-active`)

> **Correction to submitted wording:** the submitted claim cited "Federation
> Tying v1.1" as the current cycle. The authoritative topology records the
> current cycle as **v1.2 (knowledge-fabric-active)**, with Tying v1.1 as the
> lineage predecessor. The verified v1.2 / v3.4.0-fabric state is recorded here.

**Disclaimer:** This claim is internal-record-sourced and is **NOT
independently verifiable by third parties from public sources alone.** It is
logged here for internal consistency tracking only and must not be conflated
with Claims 1–2, which are independently verifiable.

---

## Corrections applied during verification

The following differences between the originally-submitted claim text and the
authoritative primary sources were found; the **authoritative value** is
recorded above (KTS Law: direct evidence only, no invented values):

| Field | Submitted | Authoritative source | Recorded |
|-------|-----------|----------------------|----------|
| Claim 1 date | "first published 2026-08-04" | Document header + Datatracker: **5 August 2026** | 2026-08-05 |
| Claim 2 date | "published 2026-08-07" | Document header + Datatracker: **8 August 2026** | 2026-08-08 |
| Claim 3 cycle | "Federation Tying v1.1" | Topology `federation_state.cycle = v1.2` | v1.2 (Tying v1.1 = lineage) |

No other discrepancies were found. Titles, authorship, revision `-00`,
Informational intended status, individual/no-stream status, the eight defined
terms, and the `[JACOBS-MEC]` Informative cross-reference all matched the
submitted claims exactly.

---

## Evidence integrity

- Machine-readable record: `claimreview.json` (Schema.org `ClaimReview`)
- Verification receipt: `verification-receipt.json`
- Source captures: `sources/` (byte-exact IETF retrievals)
- Hash manifest: `EVIDENCE-HASH-MANIFEST.sha256`

**Logged by:** Tim Jacobs / KTS Global
**Recorded & independently verified by:** KTS Federation Custodian (builder), NODE-1 evidence locker