Re: Agent Identity Registry Protocol Community Group launched

What's the interaction or overlap between this CG and
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webbotauth/about/?

On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 4:34 PM <public-council@w3.org> wrote:

> With your support, the Agent Identity Registry Protocol Community Group
> has been launched:
>   https://www.w3.org/community/agent-identity/
>
> This group was originally proposed on 2026-04-22 by Aaron Adolfo Grego.
> The following people supported its creation:
>   Chaals Nevile
>   Aaron Adolfo Grego
>   Adolfo Grego Micha
>   Cristian Acosta
>   Carolina Biringer
>
> To join the group, please use:
>   https://www.w3.org/community/agent-identity/join
>
> Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
> a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.
>
> --------------------
> Although autonomous AI agents increasingly operate across organizational
> boundaries —negotiating, transacting, and making decisions on behalf of
> humans and organizations— there is no agreed upon mechanism for verifying
> an agent's identity, its controlling entity, or its authorization scope
> before interaction begins. This gap creates accountability, security, and
> liability challenges that multiple industry and government bodies have
> identified as urgent, including NIST's AI Agent Identity initiative and the
> OpenID Foundation's AIIM working group.
>
> This Community Group develops open specifications for verifiable AI agent
> identity infrastructure. The group's work addresses how AI agents can
> present cryptographically verifiable credentials that bind them to their
> controlling organizations, enabling cross-organizational trust negotiation
> without requiring pre-existing bilateral agreements.
>
> The group's scope includes:
>
> - A DID method specification for agent identity resolution
> - An agent credential format based on W3C Verifiable Credentials
> - A trust negotiation protocol for cross-organizational agent interactions
> - Trust level definitions and verification requirements
> - Integration profiles with complementary protocols (MCP, A2A, OAuth/OIDC,
> SPIFFE)
> - Revocation and credential lifecycle management
> - Post-quantum cryptographic requirements for agent identity
>
> **Note**: This group will take inspiration from work created by TrustLayer
> Foundation A.C., and that work may inform the group's discussions. That
> work does not constrain the group's discussions, and all decisions about
> the group's deliverables will be made by the Community Group participants.
>
> Coordination is anticipated with the W3C Credentials Community Group
> (CCG), the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), the OpenID Foundation
> AIIM Community Group, and the IETF WIMSE Working Group.
> --------------------
>
> Thank you,
>
> W3C Community Development Team
>
>
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