The safeguards map / 3.6 Identity and authorization
Agent Name Service
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An open-source registry and transparency log that registers AI agents under DNS-style names, issues identity certificates and gives offline verification of receipts.
Where it sits
3.6 Identity and authorization (primary): Registers AI agents under versioned names, issues each an identity certificate for mutual TLS between agents, and records their lifecycle events in a transparency log that an offline verifier checks.
is an open-source implementation of the Agent Name Service (ANS), a registry + transparency log for discovering and verifying AI agents by name.
captured
Identity certificates signed by a private CA for mTLS between agents
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Facts
- Concern
- security
- Names the law
- no
- Subject
- agent
- Used by
- those who run it
- Runs
- at runtime
- Policy comes from
- vendor defaults
Handoffs
produces Runtime records: SCITT COSE_Sign1 receipts
Collector's note
The Linux Foundation has announced its intent to launch the Agent Name Service as an open standard; until the move is complete the home is none. The entry covers the reference implementation (registry, transparency log, verifier), not the standard.
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