en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard based on the Domain Name System (DNS), designed to provide trusted identity verification for artificial intelligence agents. This standard operates through the same DNS network already running globally, eliminating the need to establish new query networks or proprietary registries.
With ANS, systems or individuals can confirm the organization to which an agent belongs and its authorized permissions, while also detecting whether the agent's execution code or historical activity records have been tampered with. Identity verification is directly anchored to DNS, which processes over 100 million queries per second worldwide.
The timing of this standard's launch reflects the speed at which AI agents are entering real-time systems. Enterprises often deploy agents into production environments before resolving issues related to agent identity verification, behavior management, or cross-system coordination. The Linux Foundation cited data from the World Economic Forum, showing that 82% of executives plan to adopt AI agents within one to three years, with many unsure they can review or control agents once they are operational.
Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation, emphasized that as agents are about to operate across companies and platforms, identity verification becomes a problem organizations must address early. He stated that anchoring the framework to DNS and open standards helps scale verified agent communication across the digital economy.
ANS supports Decentralized Identifiers and Legal Entity Identifiers, allowing organizations to integrate existing identity systems into a single verification model. The Linux Foundation positions this standard as vendor-neutral, a practice with precedent in its previous standardization efforts.
The initiative has garnered industry support. Jared Sine, Chief Strategy and Legal Officer at GoDaddy Inc., stated that leveraging mature internet infrastructure to provide identity for agents avoids repeating the walled garden problems of earlier platform transitions. Dane Knecht, Chief Technology Officer at Cloudflare Inc., believes extending DNS to the agent domain can address identity and security issues before they spiral out of control. Cisco Systems Inc. and Salesforce Inc. have also expressed interest in participation, with Cisco already supporting open standard work for the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Linux Foundation.
The standard originates from an award-winning research paper led by Ken Huang, CEO of DistributedApps.ai, co-authored with Vineeth Sai Narajala from the Open Worldwide Application Security Project. Huang expressed concern that agents would proliferate without a neutral identity and discovery layer, creating the shadow AI risk that security teams fear.
The Linux Foundation is seeking contributions from enterprises, developers, infrastructure providers, and security researchers. Technical repositories and contribution details are available through the Agent Name Service organization on GitHub.
This initiative follows a series of recent efforts in the agent trust domain. Diagrid Inc. this month provided cryptographic execution proof for agents, while startup Tenet Security Inc. launched a platform for capturing malicious agent behavior at runtime.
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