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 "id": "w3c-ai-agent-protocol-cg",
 "name": "W3C AI Agent Protocol Community Group",
 "org": "W3C",
 "kind": "venue",
 "tier": "core",
 "status": "Active Community Group (created 2025-05-08); agent identity is DID-method-agnostic (did:wba, did:web, did:webvh) since 2026-08-13. Bi-weekly meetings; the meeting of 2026-10-07 was announced as canceled (calendar notice of 2026-10-01) and the October 2026 list archive holds 5 messages, the last of 2026-10-07, none announcing a later meeting (read 2026-10-13); the W3C group data list two chairs.",
 "status_as_of": "2026-10-13",
 "relevance": "The protocol draft defines an Agent Discovery Service Protocol in JSON-LD, with active discovery at https://{domain}/.well-known/agent-descriptions and an Agent Description \"Information\" that covers \"products, or services\". The use_case.html draft includes a hotel booking scenario (Personal Agent, Search Agent, hotel Service Agent) with the requirement \"Agent Transactions\". The agent identity draft uses a Decentralized Identifier (DID) URL as the HTTP signature keyid with RFC 9421 and RFC 9530.",
 "committed_next": [
  {
   "what": "Topics \"streaming HTTP authentication, mutual DID authentication\"; joint Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) session with the WebAgents Community Group (CG) under discussion",
   "when": "undated",
   "source": "https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-agentprotocol/2026Sep/0009.html",
   "class": "statement"
  }
 ],
 "boundary": "On 2026-09-10 the maintainer wrote of a proposal on agent memory \"My feeling is that this goes beyond the current scope of our protocol.\".",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://w3c-cg.github.io/ai-agent-protocol/protocol.html",
   "read": "2026-10-02",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/w3c-cg/ai-agent-protocol/blob/main/agent-identity.html",
   "read": "2026-10-02",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/w3c-cg/ai-agent-protocol/blob/main/use_case.html",
   "read": "2026-10-02",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-agentprotocol/2026Oct/0000.html",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "statement"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-agentprotocol/2026Oct/",
   "read": "2026-10-13",
   "class": "statement"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://api.w3.org/groups/cg/agentprotocol",
   "read": "2026-10-02",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/w3c-cg/ai-agent-protocol/issues/36",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "third-party"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-agentprotocol/2026Sep/0009.html",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "normative"
  }
 ],
 "overlaps": [
  "a2a-discovery",
  "ard",
  "ietf-webbotauth",
  "w3c-agenticweb-wg"
 ],
 "seams": [
  "S1"
 ],
 "verified": "2026-10-13",
 "evidence": {
  "read": "On 2026-10-13: the October 2026 index of public-agentprotocol (5 messages, subjects and dates) and the chairs listed on the W3C group data.",
  "not_read": "Meeting minutes (2026-09-09, 2026-09-23), attachments, Google Docs and slides."
 },
 "url": "https://frmoretto.github.io/agentic-standards-map/entries/w3c-ai-agent-protocol-cg.html",
 "source_url": "https://github.com/frmoretto/agentic-standards-map/blob/a1ae242918902e0768e0e6a79bd2bffc4ac5cfa3/entries/w3c-ai-agent-protocol-cg.yaml",
 "licence": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}