Standards & interoperability
Infrastructure becomes significantly more valuable when independent organizations can implement it without requiring a shared vendor or trust boundary. Standardizing primitives is how distributed systems scale.
Agent Name Service
HCS-14ANS Resolution via Web & DNS
Defines how HCS-14 resolvers discover ANS-registered agents through DNS and Web metadata, with optional transparency verification.
Makes DNS-anchored ANS identities resolvable across ecosystems without requiring every resolver to implement ANS-specific branching.
HCS-27ANS Transparency Log Checkpoints
Defines how append-only ANS transparency logs publish Merkle-root checkpoints to Hedera Consensus Service.
Lets auditors verify inclusion and append-only consistency against independently timestamped commitments without putting full registry data on-ledger.
Agentic AI Foundation
AAIFAgentic AI Foundation Working Groups
Direct participation in AAIF technical meetings and working groups focused on open, interoperable agent infrastructure.
Brings Internet naming, DNS, PKI, security, and production-infrastructure experience into the broader ecosystem defining how agents operate across platforms and organizational boundaries.
IETF
draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaidDNS Agent Identity Discovery
DNS-based agent discovery leveraging SVCB records and discovery profile support.
Leverages the existing globally distributed DNS primitive to discover agent capabilities while incorporating downgrade resistance.
REGEXTRegistration Protocols Extensions
Participation in EPP and RDAP extensions mapping to global registrar operations.
Ensures that extensions to domain registration protocols remain interoperable and backward-compatible across disparate global systems.