OpenAgenet/OAN: Technical Architecture for Trust-Governed Agent Identity and Discovery
For developers and researchers building multi-agent systems, OAN provides a standardized trust layer for agent identity and discovery, but the paper is a technical description without empirical validation or comparison to existing systems.
The paper presents OpenAgenet (OAN), a protocol-neutral trust layer for agent identity and discovery, detailing its architecture including role design, identity objects, registration, lifecycle, verification, and discovery mechanisms. It aims to support heterogeneous agent frameworks and protocols like MCP and A2A.
This paper describes the technical architecture of OpenAgenet / OAN. OAN is a protocol-neutral trust layer for open Agent interconnection. It specifies the role architecture, identity objects, registration workflow, Root-governed lifecycle, Root-verified package model, authorization-aware Discovery, signed trusted invocation, verification requirements, state transitions, security properties, implementation boundaries, and deployment considerations. The design is intended to support heterogeneous Agent frameworks and interaction protocols, including MCP, A2A, ANP-like systems, and domain-specific Agent protocols. OAN does not define the entire business conversation among Agents; it defines how Agent identities become admissible, discoverable, verifiable, and safe to approach before protocol-specific interaction begins.