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Individual IETF drafts on the seller side

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

Status

Three individual Internet-Drafts on the seller side of agent transactions, none adopted by a Working Group (WG): anders merchant-identity-assertions -01, kavian offering-discovery-protocol -01, hood agtp-merchant-identity (-02, an Independent Submission dated 26 May 2026, Informational, expires 27 November 2026; -00 and -02 read).

Relevance

draft-anders-merchant-identity-assertions defines a Merchant Identity Assertion, a signed JSON document binding a legal identity to the merchant receiving a payment, so that an automated client can verify the merchant before completing it. draft-kavian-offering-discovery-protocol lets an agent discover a Service's Collections and Offerings and find links to subsequent operations, for "catalogs ranging from a few Offerings to large marketplaces without imposing a universal product taxonomy". draft-hood-agtp-merchant-identity states "This is the merchant identity gap." and treats merchant identity as the receiving side of a purchase.

Committed next

None declared in the sources read.

Boundary

draft-kavian-offering-discovery-protocol declines a product identifier scheme: its discovery is "without imposing a universal product taxonomy".

Sources

Overlaps

KYAPay (Skyfire), Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), IETF DAWN, Discovery of Agents With Names (proposed WG)

Neighbours in the map

Neighbours of Individual IETF drafts on the seller side 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 Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) (Independent, core)Agentic Resource Discov… KYAPay (Skyfire) (Industry, core)KYAPay Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) (Industry, core)Universal Commerce Prot… Individual IETF drafts on t…

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 datatracker records of the three drafts (anders -01 of 2026-07-04, kavian -01 of 2026-09-04, hood -02 of 2026-05-26; no later revision) and the text of hood -02.
Not read
Full texts of the anders and kavian drafts, authors' next steps, WG agendas, whether the kavian draft names UCP, ACP or GS1.
Not found
Not found in the DAWN list (2026-08-01 to 2026-10-02) and dnsop list text, 2026-10-03: names of the three drafts.