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Internet-Draft draft-rehfeld-apix-core-03.txt is now available.

   Title:   API Index (APIX): Core Infrastructure for Autonomous Agent Service Discovery
   Author:  Carsten Rehfeld
   Name:    draft-rehfeld-apix-core-03.txt
   Pages:   61
   Dates:   2026-05-12

Abstract:

   The internet was designed for human actors.  Its discovery
   infrastructure — search engines, directories, and hyperlinked
   documents — assumes a human reading and navigating.  Autonomous
   agents (bots) operating on the internet today face a structural gap:
   there is no machine-native, globally accessible index of services
   they can consume.

   This document defines the core infrastructure of the *API Index
   (APIX)*: a HATEOAS-based, globally accessible, commercially
   sustainable service discovery infrastructure designed for autonomous
   agents as its primary consumers.  It specifies the governance model,
   the three-dimensional trust model, the APIX Manifest (APM) base
   format, commercial onboarding and sanctions compliance, the supply-
   side funding model, and the base Index API.  These elements are
   shared across all APIX service types.

   Profile documents extend this core for specific service categories:
   the APIX Services Profile (draft-rehfeld-apix-services-00) defines
   the web API and bot service profile; the APIX IoT Device Profile
   (draft-rehfeld-apix-iot-00) defines the IoT device profile.

The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rehfeld-apix-core/

There is also an HTML version available at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rehfeld-apix-core-03.html

A diff from the previous version is available at:
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