OpenAgenet/OAN: Open Infrastructure for Trusted Agent Interconnection
This work addresses the emerging need for trust and interoperability among autonomous agents in open networks, but remains at the architectural proposal stage without empirical validation.
OpenAgenet (OAN) introduces an open infrastructure for trusted agent interconnection in multi-operator networks, providing identity verification, governance, and trust mechanisms. The prototype demonstrates feasibility with a performance profile, though no specific numerical results are reported.
OpenAgenet, abbreviated as OAN, is an open infrastructure project for trusted Agent interconnection. It addresses a problem that becomes visible when Agents move from isolated applications into open, multi-operator networks: before an Agent can safely discover, select, and invoke another Agent, it needs a way to verify identity provenance, governance state, discovery authorization, freshness, and pre-connection trust evidence. OAN is designed as a protocol-neutral trust layer. It does not replace Agent interaction protocols, tool protocols, model orchestration frameworks, or application-level workflows. Instead, it provides Root-governed identity admission, Registrar-assisted onboarding, Root-verified package publication, authorization-aware Discovery, and signed trusted invocation. This paper presents the motivation, architecture, roles, governance model, relationship with MCP, A2A, and ANP, deployment patterns, cooperation model, blockchain-backed authorization bulletin, prototype status, performance profile, and roadmap of OAN.