Verifiable Credentials

Budgets are where autonomy becomes real. A chatbot can be annoying. An agent with a procurement account, API access, calendar authority, cloud credits, and a habit of negotiating with other agents is something else entirely. At that point, we are no longer discussing “workflow automation” in the tidy enterprise sense. We are discussing economic actors: software systems that request resources, trade off priorities, outsource tasks, pay for services, and generate consequences faster than the compliance department can ask for a meeting. ...

TL;DR for operators If your organisation is building one chatbot, DNS is not your problem. If your organisation expects thousands of autonomous agents to discover one another, verify capabilities, rotate endpoints, respect privacy boundaries, and revoke trust quickly, then DNS starts looking like a filing cabinet in a drone factory. The paper behind NANDA proposes a layered discovery architecture for the “Internet of AI agents”: a lean signed index record called AgentAddr, richer verified metadata called AgentFacts, and optional adaptive resolvers for live endpoint selection.1 The important idea is not that NANDA is “DNS for agents”. That is the tempting headline and, naturally, the least useful one. The paper is really about separating stable identity from dynamic operational metadata and from runtime routing. ...