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title: "Web Bot Auth working-group draft reaches -01 | Agent Ready Crawlers"
description: "Web Bot Auth working-group draft reaches -01. A registry and Signature Agent card draft (-04) followed on 2026-10-27. Dated 2026-10-29."
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# Web Bot Auth working-group draft reaches -01 | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Web Bot Auth working-group draft reaches -01. A registry and Signature Agent card draft (-04) followed on 2026-10-27. Dated 2026-10-29.

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News from 2026-10-29

# Web Bot Auth working-group draft reaches -01

In short

29 October 2026: Web Bot Auth working-group draft reaches -01. draft-ietf-webbotauth-httpsig-protocol-01, the adopted working-group draft that replaced the individual Meunier drafts, was posted on 2026-10-29. A registry and Signature Agent card draft (-04) followed on 2026-10-27. For a site owner nothing changes yet: a working-group draft is not a finished standard, so keep your current verification in place.

draft-ietf-webbotauth-httpsig-protocol-01, the adopted working-group draft that replaced the individual Meunier drafts, was posted on 2026-10-29. A registry and Signature Agent card draft (-04) followed on 2026-10-27.

Primary source [datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webbotauth/documents/](https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webbotauth/documents/), read 2026-11-04.

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## Sources

-   [IETF webbotauth working group documents](https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webbotauth/documents/) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04