Re: Introducing AIR - Open Trust Infrastructure for AI Agents

Hi Peter, Thanks for sharing AIR — great to see more work on agent identity
infrastructure. This reminded me of another project I came across recently
that takes a somewhat different approach to the same problem:
Open Agent ID (OAID)
—
https://openagentid.org
<https://openagentid.org> A few things I found interesting about their
design: -
Instant DID issuance
— they use deterministic CREATE2 derivation so an agent gets a valid W3C
DID (
did:oaid:{chain}:{address}
) locally in milliseconds, without waiting for on-chain confirmation. Chain
anchoring is batched asynchronously. -
Economic trust signals
— instead of behavioral scoring, trust actions (verification, reporting,
appeals) are tied to on-chain payments, which they argue creates Sybil
resistance at the protocol level. -
Identity + messaging in one layer
— the registry includes signed agent-to-agent messaging (Ed25519,
domain-separated), so identity and communication share the same trust
foundation rather than being separate systems. -
MCP server for AI agents
— lets agents like Claude or GPT manage their own credentials through tool
calls, with key isolation. Spec and source are on GitHub:
https://github.com/openagentid
(Apache 2.0) Might be worth this group looking at both AIR and OAID
together — they seem to make different trade-offs (behavioral scoring vs.
economic staking, standalone identity vs. identity+communication) that
could inform the broader discussion on what an agent trust layer should
look like. Best,
Alejandro

On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 9:10 PM Kwang Wook Ahn <ahnkwangwook@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I'd like to introduce the Agent Identity Registry (AIR) — an open-source
> project building neutral identity and trust scoring infrastructure for AI
> agents, natively on W3C DIDs and Verifiable Credentials.
>
> We see our work as complementary to this group's efforts on agent
> discovery and communication protocols. AIR addresses the trust layer: given
> that agents can find each other, should they trust each other? Our registry
> provides verifiable identity (AIR IDs linked to W3C DIDs) and a transparent
> five-component trust score (Provenance, Behavioral, Transparency, Security,
> Peer Attestations) scored 0-1000.
>
> What's live today:
>
>    - Working registry API with agent registration and trust scoring:
>    https://agentidentityregistry.org
>    - Full specification, trust methodology, and governance docs:
>    https://github.com/ahnkwangwook-oss/agent-identity-registry
>    - Recent public comment submitted to NIST CAISI on AI agent identity
>
> We’d be glad to share more detail, answer questions, or discuss alignment
> opportunities via email.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kwangwook (Peter) Ahn
>
> Agent Identity Registry Foundation
>
> ahnkwangwook@gmail.com | foundation@agentidentityregistry.org
> https://agentidentityregistry.org
>
>
>