Company is building a system that uses DNS, PKI, and blockchain technology to trace accountability for AI agents.
Identity Digital is launching DNSid, which it bills as “Birth Certificates for AI Agents.”
The company has previously teased an AI-agent-related product under an “Innovation Labs” label on its website. It just changed that link to an explainer for its DNSid concept, and applied for trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Identity Digital explains that, “AI agents can already act on their own, but today there is no universal way to identify who is responsible for them.” It further states:
Accountability is not persistent
An agent may have one identity in an IAM system, another in a cloud environment, and a SPIFFE identity inside Kubernetes. Each is valid only within the environment that issued it but unaccountable outside those walls. Risk and audit teams cannot responsibly greenlight AI agents from sandbox to production without being able to prove and verify ownership regardless of the tech stack embedded in an agent.
Its solution is DNSid. Its birth-certificate analogy is that while a birth certificate doesn’t open a bank account for you or get you through airport security, it’s necessary to obtain one to get the credentials needed to do so.
Under the company’s system, agents will be registered to an owner, and systems will be able to verify who is behind them.
DNSid will combine DNS, PKI, and blockchain.
GoDaddy also has a solution for AI agents: Agent Name Service.
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