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Internet-Draft draft-drake-agent-identity-governance-01.txt is now available.

   Title:   The Agent Identity Authority: A Multi-Stakeholder Governance Framework for the Agent Identity Registry System
   Author:  Christopher Drake
   Name:    draft-drake-agent-identity-governance-01.txt
   Pages:   43
   Dates:   2026-10-26

Abstract:

   The Agent Identity Registry System (AIRS) provides durable identity
   infrastructure for autonomous entities such as AI agents and robots,
   with graduated assurance ranging from scarcity-backed physical
   anchors through protected-key and software-only participation.  Its
   companion specifications deliberately do not define or empower a
   governance authority; they describe the functions such an authority
   must perform and defer its constitution to a separate effort.

   This document defines that body: the Agent Identity Authority (AIA).
   It specifies the Authority's name, legal form, mission, and
   relationship to the protocol specifications; its membership
   categories and Board composition; binding geographic-diversity rules
   and non-binding advisory recommendations for ideal composition; the
   accreditation, dispute-resolution, hardware trust store,
   transparency, and funding frameworks it operates; and the bootstrap
   process by which the Authority forms and assumes stewardship of the
   global production namespace.

   The Authority governs infrastructure, not behavior: it stewards the
   aid namespace, hardware roots of trust, accreditation, and production
   Registry Operator succession.  It does not regulate what agents do.
   Its legitimacy derives from being the least-objectionable steward of
   a shared resource, in the tradition of ICANN, the regional Internet
   registries, and the W3C, and its charter is designed so that no
   single nation, region, or company can capture it or holds a formal
   veto over it, although supermajority rules let a large enough
   coordinated bloc block consequential decisions.

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