@nik_kale: Five competing agent protocols now overlap without any of them clearing the bar that makes interoperability real across…
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The tweet highlights how multiple agent protocols are converging on the unsolved problem of proving agent identity and authority for cross-organizational interoperability, emphasizing the identity layer over messaging formats.
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Five competing agent protocols now overlap without any of them clearing the bar that makes interoperability real across organizational boundaries. The IETF has drafts on agent authentication and authorization. The Linux Foundation is building agent identity on DNS.
None of this is settled, and that is the point. Every one of these efforts is converging on the same unsolved question: how one organization’s agent proves to another’s what it is and whose authority it carries.
Bet on the identity layer, not the messaging format.
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