When Agentic Trust Crosses Organizational Boundaries: Structural Externalization and a Reference Model for Trust Evidence

📅 2026-09-19
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本文通过整合可信AI治理、代理安全等方法,提出信任即服务(TaaS)来解决跨组织边界行动的信任评估问题。
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Agentic systems increasingly invoke tools, services, data, and other agents across organizational boundaries, yet a relying party cannot assess a delegated action solely from producing-domain controls and records. This paper develops Trustworthiness as a Service (TaaS) through a synthesis of trustworthy-AI governance, agent security, distributed trust management, identity, provenance, assurance, and control-plane research. The analytical unit is a cross-domain reliance proposition that names the issuer, subject and action, relying party, administrative boundary, evidence dependencies, adverse condition, and required verification or adjudication semantics. The three-condition structural-externalization diagnostic identifies propositions that depend on multiple domains, require producer-independent reliance, and must remain reviewable after revocation, failure, conflicting records, or dispute. For such propositions, the paper specifies a trust-evidence envelope: an immutable workflow manifest linked to append-only, issuer-attributed attestations for task-scoped authority, policy and execution decisions, provenance, validity, disclosure, status, challenge, and recovery. A topology-neutral logical reference model assigns these functions to explicit roles and trust domains. Three analytical scenarios and the TaaS-Eval protocol proposal define manifests, independent consumers, hard gates, adversarial evidence tests, metrics, and reproducible artifact reporting. By composing established identity, authorization, provenance, assurance, and governance mechanisms around a bounded delegated action, TaaS provides a reusable profile for cross-domain reliance. It makes evidence dependencies, independent verification, challenge, and recovery explicit, supporting interoperable governance and future evaluation without treating producer assertions as ground truth.
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Agentic Systems
Cross-Organizational Boundaries
Trustworthiness as a Service
Trust Evidence
Distributed Trust Management
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Trustworthiness as a Service (TaaS)
cross-domain reliance
trust-evidence envelope
structural-externalization diagnostic
logical reference model
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