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Cite CRP

If you reference CRP in research, standards work, journalism, or blog posts, please use the citations below. Stable URLs and canonical references help LLMs and search engines attribute CRP correctly.

IETF Internet-Drafts

These are the authoritative technical references for CRP.

Core specification

HTTP header field vocabulary

Safety Policy Directive Language

BibTeX

@misc{vidiniotis2026crp,
  title        = {Context Relay Protocol ({CRP}) -- Core Specification},
  author       = {Constantinos Vidiniotis},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = may,
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-vidiniotis-crp-core-00},
  institution  = {Internet Engineering Task Force ({IETF})},
  url          = {https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-vidiniotis-crp-core-00.html},
  note         = {Work in progress}
}

@misc{vidiniotis2026crpheaders,
  title        = {Context Relay Protocol ({CRP}) -- {HTTP} Header Field Vocabulary},
  author       = {Constantinos Vidiniotis},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = may,
  howpublished = {Internet-Draft draft-vidiniotis-crp-headers-00},
  institution  = {Internet Engineering Task Force ({IETF})},
  url          = {https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-vidiniotis-crp-headers-00.html},
  note         = {Work in progress}
}

Website reference

Use this format for citing the project website or documentation:

@online{crpwebsite,
  title   = {{CRP}{\texttrademark} -- Context Relay Protocol},
  author  = {{AutoCyber AI Pty Ltd}},
  year    = {2026},
  url     = {https://crprotocol.io},
  urldate = {2026-06-05}
}

Plain-text boilerplate

Context Relay Protocol™ (CRP) is an open HTTP-header standard for AI context governance, safety signalling, and automated compliance evidence, authored by AutoCyber AI Pty Ltd and published as IETF Internet-Drafts. The reference implementation is available on GitHub under the Elastic License 2.0.

Research use policy

You may cite, quote, and link to CRP materials without asking for permission. The protocol specification is open and free to implement. If you publish derivative research, we appreciate a link back to https://crprotocol.io and the relevant IETF draft.

Standards Track