Linux Foundation wants to use DNS as the identity layer for AI agents

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The Linux Foundation announces the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard leveraging DNS to provide verifiable identities for AI agents, enabling trust and interoperability.

The Linux Foundation just announced its intent to launch the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard for providing AI agents with verifiable identities. The basic idea is to reuse existing internet infrastructure, mainly DNS so that an AI agent can prove: which organization or domain it belongs to What is allowed to do whether its identity and history can be verified how other agents or systems should discover and interact with it
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