🤖 AI Summary
This work addresses the lack of identity provenance, governance-state verification, authorization proofs, and pre-connection trust evidence among agents in open multi-operator networks by proposing the first unified trust architecture designed for open environments. The architecture establishes a protocol-agnostic, decentralized yet governance-controlled trust-layer infrastructure through mechanisms including root governance identity onboarding, registrar-assisted access, root validation package dissemination, authorization-aware discovery, and signature-based trusted invocation. This enables verifiable cross-domain interactions encompassing identity, governance, and authorization. A prototype implementation demonstrates the system’s performance and deployment feasibility, while clearly articulating a cooperative model and evolutionary pathway to provide a scalable trust foundation for open multi-agent networks.
📝 Abstract
OpenAgenet, abbreviated as OAN, is an open infrastructure project for trusted Agent interconnection. It addresses a problem that becomes visible when Agents move from isolated applications into open, multi-operator networks: before an Agent can safely discover, select, and invoke another Agent, it needs a way to verify identity provenance, governance state, discovery authorization, freshness, and pre-connection trust evidence. OAN is designed as a protocol-neutral trust layer. It does not replace Agent interaction protocols, tool protocols, model orchestration frameworks, or application-level workflows. Instead, it provides Root-governed identity admission, Registrar-assisted onboarding, Root-verified package publication, authorization-aware Discovery, and signed trusted invocation. This paper presents the motivation, architecture, roles, governance model, relationship with MCP, A2A, and ANP, deployment patterns, cooperation model, blockchain-backed authorization bulletin, prototype status, performance profile, and roadmap of OAN.