Introduction

After the W3C/GS1 workshop in Zurich, the question I kept hearing was not what to build but where it was already being built. Agentic commerce is being standardised in more than a dozen venues at once, at different speeds and with different rules; this map records what each of them has published and committed to, with dates and sources, and nothing else.

It is written for people who work in one or two of these venues and need a reliable picture of the others. It takes no position on which approach is right: where two efforts overlap or leave a gap, the map says so and stops there.

The map is made by a participant in some of the venues it maps. Seams S1 to S4 each touch at least one venue in which the author took part, and S4 in particular follows questions the author has raised in those venues; the Disclosure lists each contribution.

The quickest way in is the four seams. Each follows one question across all venues: how an agent finds a seller, a product or a service; how it knows who stands behind them; how an agent shows who it acts for; and what gets signed, by whom. The payment comparison comes next, and the calendar of the next 60 days is at the end. The entries are reference material, and the appendices show what was read and what was not.