Re: [aivs] Kickoff and first meeting

Hi Erik, Ben, and AIVS Community Group members,                                    
                                                                                     
  Thank you to both chairs for starting this discussion.                             
                                                                                   
  My name is Jinghan Zhang, and I am a senior undergraduate student at Beijing       
  University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). My research interests are mainly
   in trusted AI agent systems, including applied cryptography and verifiability     
  mechanisms, decentralized infrastructure, agent interaction protocols, and agent
  reputation and auditability.                                                     


  What especially interests me about AIVS is the verification layer. Without         
  portable, self-verifiable, and tamper-evident proofs of agent sessions and actions,
   the upper layers of identity, reputation, and compliance can easily fall back to  
  vendor-attested claims. I am also interested in how this kind of specification can
  remain strongly verifiable while still being practical to adopt across existing  
  agent frameworks and implementation paths.


  For the first meeting, I am currently available at:                                
   May 23, 03:00 UTC
   May 27, 03:00 UTC                                                                
                     
  If needed, I will also do my best to accommodate nearby times.                     
                                                                                     
  If useful to the group, I would also be happy to continue contributing to          
  discussions around repository structure, document collaboration, and early         
  work-item organization.                                                            
                                                                                   
  I look forward to working with everyone on this effort.                            
   
  Best regards,                                                                      
  Jinghan Zhang



 

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 	Erik Newton <eriknewton@gmail.com&gt; 在 Tue,May 5,2026 2:41 AM写道:
      		
Hi all,




Welcome to the Agentic Integrity Verification Specification (AIVS) Community Group. Ben Stone and I are the designated co-chairs, and this is our official kickoff note. The CG was chartered on April 5 with 8 participants (we're up to 10 now) — thank you to the founding proposers (Ben Stone, Ruoxi Ran, Robert Douglas Muncaster, Khushboo Parmar, and Erik Delgado) for getting us here.




It's been about a month since we launched, and Ben and I want to schedule our first working meeting before momentum slips.




The charter we drafted in March points at a real and increasingly important problem space: portable, self-verifiable cryptographic proof of agent sessions, with EU AI Act Article 19, ISO/IEC 42001, and NIST AI RMF as the regulatory tailwinds. The agent stack is wiring itself together fast around us, and the verification layer is one of the seams where standards work matters most. We should not let it slip while everyone else moves.




I'd like to propose a first meeting in the window of May 22 through June 12, 2026. Sixty minutes, via video. The agenda would be deliberately open and collaborative:



Confirm scope. Are we still aligned on what AIVS v1..0 should look like, or has our shared understanding shifted since March? If it has, that is healthy, and we should re-anchor.




Surface existing aligned work in the problem space. The AIVS v1.0 starting-point spec is one anchor. Members are likely tracking or contributing to other open-source efforts in the same neighborhood; a brief tour from anyone who wants to share is welcome.




Identify our first work item or items together. Member-driven. The chairs facilitate; members drive.




Establish a regular meeting cadence. Monthly is the typical CG default; we can adjust.



Two asks before the first meeting:


Introduce yourself on this thread — name, organization, and what aspects of verifiable signals for AI agents interest you most.


Please reply with your availability in May 22 through June 12, 2026 window. I will consolidate responses and send a final time once we have quorum.


If anyone has work-item suggestions they would like circulated before the meeting so members can review in advance, send them to the public list and I will batch them into a pre-meeting digest.




Looking forward to getting started.





Best,

 Erik Newton&nbsp;

 Co-chair, AIVS Community Group









Erik Newton

Received on Wednesday, 6 May 2026 05:26:44 UTC