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 "id": "lf-ai-catalog",
 "name": "AI Catalog (Agent Card Working Group)",
 "org": "Linux Foundation",
 "kind": "specification",
 "tier": "core",
 "status": "Pre-v1 specification in \"a temporary working repo maintained by the Linux Foundation\", governed by a Technical Steering Committee with four initial seats. The well-known path is optional by design (ADR-0011). On 2026-10-13 the README of main still says \"This is a temporary working repo maintained by the Linux Foundation\" and \"This project will be moved to a permanent location a later date with a permanent governance model.\"; the last commit of main is of 2026-10-08 (PR #119, implementation classifications); issue #46 (project location) was closed as completed on 2026-10-03 without a comment. PR #110 (did:web verification of signed Entry Trust Manifests) was merged on 2026-10-01.",
 "status_as_of": "2026-10-13",
 "relevance": "ADR-0011 (accepted 2026-04-02) says a well-known URI \"should be registered as a conventional discovery location\" but \"is not mandatory\", so catalogues may be served from any URL. Publisher identity is the most developed theme: urn:air anchored to a domain and did:web verification of signed trust manifests (PR #110, merged 2026-10-01), whose text says \"This establishes publisher-domain control, not publisher reputation.\" Terms of service and privacy policy URLs are fields of the trust manifest (termsOfServiceUrl, privacyPolicyUrl); the maintainers' wording on Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) is \"Documents the decision to loosely couple ARD and AI-Catalog\" (PR #77).",
 "committed_next": [
  {
   "what": "Technical Steering Committee (TSC) vote on the urn:air naming (issue #59): \"We may require a TSC vote to move forward.\"",
   "when": "undated",
   "source": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/59",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051045/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/59",
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  },
  {
   "what": "README: \"This project will be moved to a permanent location a later date with a permanent governance model.\"",
   "when": "undated",
   "source": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/README.md",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051136/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/README.md",
   "class": "normative"
  }
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 "boundary": "Access and monetization signalling is directed to an extension: \"I would fully support this as an extension.\" (issue #83)",
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  {
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/README.md",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051136/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/README.md",
   "read": "2026-10-13",
   "class": "normative"
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   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051316/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md",
   "read": "2026-10-13",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/adr/0011-no-well-known-requirement.md",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051402/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/adr/0011-no-well-known-requirement.md",
   "read": "2026-10-02",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/pull/110",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051539/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/pull/110",
   "read": "2026-10-13",
   "class": "decision"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/adr/0021-separate-artifact-identity-from-registry-coordinates.md",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051628/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/adr/0021-separate-artifact-identity-from-registry-coordinates.md",
   "read": "2026-10-13",
   "class": "statement"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/pull/77",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051716/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/pull/77",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "decision"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/83",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051813/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/83",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "third-party"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/59",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051045/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/59",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "third-party"
  }
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 "participation": "The author of this map commented on PR #117 of the AI Catalog repository on 2026-10-06, on the policy URLs of the extension; see Disclosure.",
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  "ard",
  "a2a-discovery",
  "mcp-server-card"
 ],
 "seams": [
  "S1",
  "S2"
 ],
 "verified": "2026-10-13",
 "evidence": {
  "read": "On 2026-10-13: the README and GOVERNANCE.md of main, the head of main, the list of ADR files, the state of PRs #91, #110, #117, #119 and issues #46, #59, #83, #86, #101, #114.",
  "not_read": "The Google document linked in PR #77, recordings, the Discord, other ADR files, the password-protected meeting page.",
  "not_found": "Not found in the items (2026-10-03): commerce, seller, GTIN."
 },
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  {
   "what": "Issue #46: move the project under the Agentic AI Foundation (closed as completed on 2026-10-03 without a comment; the README still announces a move to a permanent location).",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-06-19",
   "state": "closed",
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/46",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051945/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/46"
  },
  {
   "what": "Issue #59: prefix air-type before the publisher in the urn:air schema.",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-07-01",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/59",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051045/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/59"
  },
  {
   "what": "Issue #83: discovery-time access and monetization signalling (accessModel, x402).",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-07-16",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/83",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015051813/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/83"
  },
  {
   "what": "Issue #86: federation governance metadata, machine-readable alternative to terms URLs.",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-07-17",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/86",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015052026/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/86"
  },
  {
   "what": "Issue #101: a catalog and registry observe and never grant authority.",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-08-20",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/101",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015052112/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/101"
  },
  {
   "what": "PR #91: ADR-0021, multiple identities via alsoKnownAs (open, 11 comments; on main the number ADR-0021 is already used by \"Separate Artifact Identity from Registry Coordinates\", status Proposed, 2026-08-26).",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-07-24",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/pull/91",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015052155/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/pull/91"
  },
  {
   "what": "Issue #114: measurement of did:web host identifiers.",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-09-13",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/114",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015052246/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/114"
  },
  {
   "what": "PR #117: trust metadata grouped by contributor, generalized signatures (not a draft on 2026-10-13; open, 6 comments).",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-09-13",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/pull/117",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015052329/https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/pull/117"
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