IETF (other) · Discovery
Discovery of Agents With Names (DAWN)
DNS-based discovery of the public properties of an AI agent or resource (type, reachability, protocol) beneath protocols such as MCP and A2A; it defines no agent identity.
Individual draftProposed working group: BoF at IETF 126, charter in external review for the IESG telechat of 2026-10-22; every draft is individualCanonical documentdawn
Revisions
- draft-farrel-terminology-03current
Terminology draft presented at the DAWN BoF; the charter itself is not yet approved.
Relations 1
Discovery of Agents With Names (DAWN) solves the same problem as 1
- Agent2Agent (A2A) ProtocolpublishedBoth are about finding an agent and its public properties. A2A does it with an Agent Card the agent serves itself; DAWN proposes DNS-based discovery beneath any agent protocol and leaves identity to others. Source
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