Re: Introducing AIR - Open Trust Infrastructure for AI Agents

We’re very glad to see that we all recognize the value of DID for agents.
The meeting minutes of our Community Group are available on GitHub, and
each session’s notes are published there for reference:
https://github.com/w3c-cg/ai-agent-protocol/tree/main/meetings

Looking forward to collaborating.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM Peter Ahn <peter@agentidentityregistry.org>
wrote:

> Hi Gaowei,
>
> Thank you for the warm response and for sharing the group's work. It's
> encouraging to hear that the community group has been exploring agent trust
> layers and that your design also uses W3C DIDs — that's a direct alignment
> with what we've built at AIR.
>
> I'm currently overseas and will be back in Vancouver in a couple of weeks.
> I'd love to present AIR to the community group once I'm settled — we have a
> live API and published specification that I think would be useful to
> discuss.
>
> In the meantime, I'd like to introduce my co-founder Kenny Bahia (CC'd),
> who is based in Vancouver. Kenny is our technical lead and can engage with
> the group right away if there's anything time-sensitive.
>
> Would you be able to share any recent meeting notes or specs from the
> group? We'd like to review them before presenting so we can focus on where
> AIR complements your existing work rather than covering ground you've
> already explored.
>
> Looking forward to collaborating.
> Best,
>
> Peter Ahn
> Co-Founder, Agent Identity Registry (AIR)
> peter@agentidentityregistry.org
> https://agentidentityregistry.org
>
> ------------------------------
>
> CC: kenny@agentidentityregistry.org
>
> Want me to adjust anything?
>
>
>
> Dear Peter,
>
> Thank you for your thoughtful sharing — the trust layer for agents is
> indeed a critical topic. We have also discussed this extensively in our
> community meetings.
>
> In our current design, agent identity is built on top of W3C DIDs as well,
> so I believe there is a strong natural alignment and many complementary
> aspects between our work. Your approach to trust scoring and verifiable
> identity is particularly interesting and relevant to the challenges we are
> addressing.
>
> If you are open to it, we would be happy to invite you to one of our
> community group meetings to give a short introduction of AIR and share your
> insights with the group.
>
> Looking forward to further discussion and potential collaboration.
>
> Best regards,
> Gaowei
>
>
> 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
>>
>>
>
>