Invited talk at the regular Web Agents CG meeting Feb. 13th, 2025: AgentNetworkProtocol (ANP): An Open-Source Protocol for Agent Identity and Agent Descriptions

Dear all,

Next week for our regular Web Agents CG meeting will be at this time:

https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1739433600

The connection details are available from:

https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/webagents/calendar/

Our main point of discussion will be the AgentNetworkProtocol (ANP) that 
will be introduced by Gaowei Chang who will kickstart the discussion 
with a preliminary talk and presentation.

*Title:* AgentNetworkProtocol (ANP): An Open-Source Protocol for Agent 
Identity and Agent Descriptions

*Abstract:* AgentNetworkProtocol (ANP) is an open-source protocol 
specifically designed for agent communication scenarios. GitHub 
repository: https://github.com/chgaowei/AgentNetworkProtocol.

This talk will cover the following topics:
  1. What are the core principles behind ANP's design, and how do we 
envision the Agentic Web?
  2. How ANP achieves decentralized agent identity authentication based 
on DID while supporting scalability for billions of users.
  3. The implementation of 0RTT interaction in ANP's identity 
authentication process and how it differs from existing cross-platform 
identity authentication methods.
  4. The design of ANP's agent description specification and how it 
improves consistency in data interpretation between agents.
  5. Using the agent description specification to link agent data into a 
network that is easily accessible by agents.

Finally, we will demonstrate how an intelligent assistant and a coffee 
shop agent use ANP to complete a coffee purchase.

*Short bio of the proposers:*
This presentation is a collaboration between Gaowei Chang and James 
Waugh, who is also a developer of the ANP protocol.

Gaowei Chang, with over a decade of experience in designing and 
developing communication protocols, has previously worked at Taobao and 
Alibaba Cloud Computing and now runs an AI Agent infrastructure 
technology company. Their mission is to define the connectivity between 
agents and build an open, secure, and efficient collaborative network 
for billions of agents.

James Waugh is an entrepreneur, product designer, and community builder 
developing adaptive multi-agent systems. He actively contributes to 
various open-source projects including NEAR AI and Agent Network 
Protocol. Over the past decade, James has been at the forefront of web3, 
pioneering decentralized governance and advancing the concept of the 
internet of agents.

Best,
-- 
Antoine Zimmermann
École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
158 cours Fauriel
CS 62362
42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 2
France
Tél:+33(0)4 77 49 97 02
http://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/

Received on Wednesday, 5 February 2025 15:32:19 UTC