draft-shang-campus-agent-scope-down
Campus Agent Identification and Scope-Down Access Control
AI agents operating in enterprise campus networks execute user-
delegated tasks by invoking multiple tools and services, often
without continuous user supervision. Traditional authorization
models assume stable applications and human-driven interactions,
creating a mismatch when applied to autonomous agents that can chain
actions across heterogeneous systems.
Campus environments also contain heterogeneous and legacy services
across diverse protocols, making per-service agent-aware
authorization difficult to deploy consistently. This document
describes the problem space for campus agent access control and
argues that agents require task-bound privilege reduction ("scope-
down") and that enforcement can be provided by in-path network
devices in order to preserve compatibility with existing systems.