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This, the Foundation further added, creates a federated mechanism for agent discovery and verification without any reliance on any proprietary registry or centralized control.
Growing demand for an agent identity framework
ANS solves an emerging problem for enterprises, especially in scaling AI deployments, said Charlie Dai, principal analyst at Forrester, too. “The agent identity problem is already emerging in early production deployments, particularly where multiple agents interact across tools, APIs, and organizational boundaries without consistent authentication and accountability models,” he said.
“We have seen growing concerns around provenance, authorization scoping, and auditability in agent-to-agent interactions, especially in regulated industries and multi-vendor environments,” Dai said.
