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IEEE P3931 Agent Description, Discovery, and Registry (ADDR) Interoperability

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Verified 2026-10-13. Status as of 2026-10-13. All entries.

Status

PAR approved 2026-03-26; "Draft Development" on the IEEE SA active PARs page of the AI standards committee read on 2026-10-13.

Relevance

The Project Authorization Request (PAR) says the standard will specify "a description model, registry mechanisms, and discovery protocols for intelligent agents operating across platforms, organizations, and ecosystems".

Committed next

None declared in the sources read.

Sources

Overlaps

IETF DAWN, Discovery of Agents With Names (proposed WG), Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), AI Catalog (Agent Card Working Group), A2A protocol, agent discovery

Neighbours in the map

Neighbours of IEEE P3931 Agent Description, Discovery, and Registry (ADDR) Interoperability in the map Each circle is an entry of the map and links to its page; the colour is the kind of body behind it, a filled circle is a core entry and a dashed circle a context entry. The entry in the middle, with the entries it overlaps and the entries named by the same seams. Overlaps (4)Share a seam (0)IETF DAWN, Discovery of Agents With Names (proposed WG) (IETF, core)IETF DAWN A2A protocol, agent discovery (Linux Foundation, core)A2A protocol AI Catalog (Agent Card Working Group) (Linux Foundation, core)AI Catalog Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) (Independent, core)Agentic Resource Discov… IEEE P3931 Agent Description

Solid lines: overlaps declared by one of the two entries. Dashed lines, coloured by seam: entries named by the same seam (S1 to S4) in the seams note. Every node is a link.

Evidence and coverage

Read
On 2026-10-13: the active PARs page (P3931 listed as Draft Development; the PAR text adds that identity frameworks, trust scoring systems, collaborative governance policies and domain-specific business semantics are beyond its scope).
Not read
Working group membership and chair; whether the work references DAWN or Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD).
Not found
Not found in the PAR scope text, 2026-10-02: commerce, merchant, product.