🤖 AI Summary
This work addresses the lack of a unified and trustworthy identity management and discovery mechanism for multi-agent systems in open environments by proposing a protocol-agnostic trust layer architecture. The architecture formalizes agent roles, registration, governance, and secure interactions through identity object modeling, a Root-governed lifecycle model, authorization-aware discovery mechanisms, and signed trusted invocations. Innovatively, it introduces Root verification bundles and protocol-independent security boundaries, enabling support for heterogeneous protocols such as MCP, A2A, and ANP. This approach facilitates verifiable identities, discoverability, and secure onboarding of agents across diverse frameworks, thereby establishing a general-purpose trust infrastructure for open multi-agent ecosystems.
📝 Abstract
This paper describes the technical architecture of OpenAgenet / OAN. OAN is a protocol-neutral trust layer for open Agent interconnection. It specifies the role architecture, identity objects, registration workflow, Root-governed lifecycle, Root-verified package model, authorization-aware Discovery, signed trusted invocation, verification requirements, state transitions, security properties, implementation boundaries, and deployment considerations. The design is intended to support heterogeneous Agent frameworks and interaction protocols, including MCP, A2A, ANP-like systems, and domain-specific Agent protocols. OAN does not define the entire business conversation among Agents; it defines how Agent identities become admissible, discoverable, verifiable, and safe to approach before protocol-specific interaction begins.