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The Agentic Standards Map

W3C, IETF, GS1, UN/CEFACT, the Linux Foundation, the Agentic AI Foundation and the industry protocols are all working at once on how an AI agent finds a seller, trusts a product, proves who it acts for, and pays. The Agentic Standards Map, maintained by Francesco Marinoni Moretto, puts them on one page: 62 entries, each one dated and sourced.

We have documented every specification on it in this catalog. 42 of the 62 entries link to a catalog entry; the rest are working groups, draft charters and events, which are listed below with the map's own status. Status text is quoted from the map (CC BY 4.0), as of the date shown. For the current state, and every source, go to the map itself or its map.json.

The four seams

The map's most useful idea is the seam: a question every venue is answering separately, where the answers have to meet. These are the entries the map places on each one.

S3. Agent identity and delegation

Everything on the map, by venue

AAIF 7

EntryWhere it stands (per the map)Catalog
Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, core specification specification Hosted project of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF): AAIF announced on 2026-08-17 that A2A "is joining the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a hosted project", and the A2A blog of 2026-08-27 says it "has officially been accepted as a Growth Stage project"; lat... (2026-10-19) agent2agent
A2A protocol, agent discovery work-item A2A registers /.well-known/agent-card.json for a single AgentCard. PR #2240 was merged on 2026-10-21 (23:12 UTC, merge commit 8faec73) into the branch dev-1.1, not into main: at that commit docs/topics/agent-discovery.md calls the well-known URI "A simple o... (2026-10-23) agent2agent
AAIF Identity and Trust group, issue #13 and the agentrust-io integrations (TRACE) work-item Issue #13 of aaif/wg-identity-and-trust compares how MintID and Proofable record authority at the point where an agent action is dispatched; it was open with 18 comments on 2026-10-19, the last of that day. The shared runner proposed for it, pull request #2... (2026-10-19) trace-agent-runtime
AAIF structure, Technical Committee and working groups venue AAIF has a Governing Board, a Technical Committee and working groups, each with a repository; Agentic Commerce has its own entry. Hosted projects listed on aaif.io/projects (read 2026-10-23): Agent Router, Agent Skills, Agent2Agent, AGENTS.md, agentgateway,... (2026-10-13)
AAIF Agentic Commerce Working Group venue Charter approved 2026-05-15; Capability Map being built from contributed inputs. Charter targets: Capability Map (2026-09-01) and Recommendations to the Technical Committee on hosted projects (2026-10-01); both dates have passed, and no Capability Map or Re... (2026-10-13)
Model Context Protocol (MCP), core specification specification Specification version 2026-07-28 (the latest release is 2026-07-28; the specification directory holds 2025-03-26, 2025-06-18, 2025-11-25, 2026-07-28 and a draft; no later release, read 2026-10-13); the blog post of 2025-12-09 says "Anthropic is donating MCP... (2026-10-13) model-context-protocol
MCP Server Cards (ext-server-card, SEP-2127) specification Experimental extension of MCP: the README of the extension repository still reads "not an accepted or official MCP extension" (2026-10-13). SEP-2127 (PR #2127, "MCP Server Cards - HTTP Server Discovery", Extensions Track) was merged on 2026-10-06 (14:43 UTC... (2026-10-13) mcp-server-cards

Linux Foundation 5

EntryWhere it stands (per the map)Catalog
Accord Project (agreement layer for agentic commerce) specification Open-source smart legal contract stack of Accord Project, a Series of LF Projects, LLC; its documentation page "Agentic Commerce" (no date on the page, last changed 2026-07-07 in the repository history, read 2026-10-15) describes it as the agreement layer b... (2026-10-15) accord-project
DIF Trusted AI Agents Working Group venue Active; Delegated Authority and KYA-OS task forces; weekly meetings. (2026-10-13)
AI Catalog (Agent Card Working Group) specification 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 "Thi... (2026-10-13) ai-catalog
TRACE (Trust, Runtime Attestation and Compliance Evidence) specification Specification version 0.2, described in its text as "0.2: Draft" with status "RFC: Request for Comments"; the repository README calls it a Developer Preview launched on 23 June 2026, and the Python package agentrust-trace 0.11.0 was released on 2026-09-25. ... (2026-10-21) trace-agent-runtime
x402 specification Open payment protocol under the x402 Foundation (Linux Foundation): intent announced 2026-04-02; operational launch and completed contribution by Coinbase announced 2026-07-14, with 40 member organisations at launch. On 2026-10-13 main is at commit 6c470a8 ... (2026-10-13) x402

Industry 13

EntryWhere it stands (per the map)Catalog
Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) specification Specification in beta, maintained by OpenAI and Stripe; MAINTAINERS.md also lists Meta (PR #236 "ADMIN: Add Meta as TSC member", merged 2026-04-24). Last dated version 2026-04-17; on 2026-10-13 main is still at commit 7fdd78d (2026-07-17), README badge "Bet... (2026-10-13) agentic-commerce-protocol
Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) specification Open protocol in the GitHub organisation google-agentic-commerce (Apache-2.0); latest release v0.2.0 of 2026-04-28, which "focuses on providing Human Not Present flows"; core specification donated to FIDO. Google announced the donation on 2026-04-28 ("We're... (2026-10-13) agent-payments-protocol
EMV Agentic Payments Framework for Specifications (draft for public feedback) specification Draft published for feedback on 2026-09-01; the comment period ended on 2026-09-30. On 2026-10-13 the EMVCo news list has no item on the outcome of the comment period; the newsletter Q3 2026 (2026-10-09) still calls it a draft and says it was published "to ... (2026-10-13) emv-agentic-payments-framework
FIDO Alliance agentic authentication and payments work work-item Announced 2026-04-28: an Agentic Authentication Technical Working Group, and work in the Payments Technical Working Group starting from Google (AP2) and Mastercard (Verifiable Intent) contributions. (2026-10-14) fido-agentic-authentication
IAB Tech Lab AAMP 3.0 and OpenProposal (agentic advertising, draft) work-item IAB Tech Lab announced AAMP 3.0, "the next major release of its Agentic Advertising Management Protocols framework", on 2026-09-22, with the specification OpenProposal, whose public comment period ran "until October 22, 2026". The README of IABTechLab/OpenP... (2026-10-23) iab-tech-lab-aamp
KYAPay (Skyfire) specification Individual Internet-Drafts named for the OAuth Working Group (WG) (draft-skyfire-oauth-*); WG stream or adoption: not found on the datatracker, 2026-10-13 (the pages of kyapay-token and using-kyapay-tokens show "(No stream defined)"). On 2026-10-02 the auth... (2026-10-13) kyapay
Mastercard Agent Pay specification Commercial programme of Mastercard for agent-initiated payments, described on its framework page (read in a browser on 2026-10-14; first read 2026-10-02). Page metadata: datePublished 2025-10-14, dateModified 2025-11-04. The page introduces the Mastercard A... (2026-10-14) mastercard-agent-pay
Personal Agent Consent & Trust Protocol (PACT), published by Decagon with Instinct specification Version 1.0 of the specification ("This is PACT 1.0.") is published at openpactprotocol.org (the Decagon announcement is dated 2026-10-06), and the repository openpactprotocol/openpactprotocol (created 2026-10-01, Apache-2.0) holds the documentation, a refe... (2026-10-13) pact
Personal Agent Protocol (PAP, "Poppy"), published by Sierra with Meta specification Draft 0.1 of the specification is published at personalagentprotocol.org (announced 2026-10-06, draft published 2026-10-09; the pages read on 2026-10-13 are marked "Updated Oct 12, 2026"), under the Apache License 2.0 with the names and the logo excluded; a... (2026-10-13) personal-agent-protocol
Shopify, MCP surfaces for buyer agents, developers and merchants work-item Three distinct MCP surfaces are documented or published by Shopify: checkout for buyers' agents (server-side Checkout MCP and, since 2026-09-28, Checkout WebMCP), the local developer package @shopify/dev-mcp (latest version 1.16.0, 2026-09-25), and a remote... (2026-10-13)
Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) specification Latest GitHub release v2026-08-25 (2026-08-25); lodging booking draft merged 2026-09-24 (PR #780); the Common capability `ask` merged 2026-10-07 (PR #538); feed and subscription policy in draft (PR #866, PR #890); the food checkout proposal (PR #897) is und... (2026-10-27) universal-commerce-protocol
Verifiable Intent specification Draft v0.1 specification, maintained by Mastercard according to its README (Apache-2.0, tag v0.1.0). The FIDO Alliance release of 2026-04-28 says Mastercard has contributed it to the Payments Technical Working Group. On 2026-10-13 the last commit on main is... (2026-10-13) verifiable-intent
Visa Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP) specification Specification and sample code published by Visa under Visa Product Terms of October 10, 2025; the product page, read in a browser on 2026-10-14, still says "This product is in the process of development and deployment." (2026-10-14) visa-trusted-agent-protocol

Independent 7

EntryWhere it stands (per the map)Catalog
Agent Network Protocol (ANP) specification Specification set ANP 1.2, GitHub release v1.2 of 2026-09-24 (v1.1 of 2026-06-27, 1.0 of 2025-05-19); the README marks ANP-02, ANP-03, ANP-04, ANP-07 and ANP-08 "Released v1.2", the Messaging 1.2 catalog as published with profile P6 "candidate", and ANP-05,... (2026-10-16) agent-network-protocol
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification Specification v0.91 on main (header "Status: Proposal", dated 2026-08-26; header unchanged and last change to spec/ard.md on 2026-10-12, read 2026-10-13); no tag or release in ard-spec (not found, 2026-10-13); Maintainers decide by majority vote; an Oversig... (2026-10-13) agentic-resource-discovery
Browser vendor positions on WebMCP (WebKit, Mozilla, Chrome, Edge) position WebKit position issue #670 closed 2026-06-11 as "position: oppose"; Mozilla #1412 closed 2026-08-05 as "position: neutral". Chrome early preview 2026-02-10; Edge blog of 2026-09-21: implementation "is ready for testing". (2026-10-13)
EMILIA Protocol (individual drafts and open-source gate) work-item Two individual Internet-Drafts by Iman Schrock (EMILIA Protocol, Inc.) were current on 2026-10-08: draft-schrock-ep-architecture-03 (2026-09-06, Informational) and draft-schrock-action-evidence-boundary-07 (2026-09-25, Informational). The Apache-2.0 reposit... (2026-10-08) emilia-protocol
OpenID Foundation AuthZEN Working Group (agent authorization drafts AARP and COAZ) work-item AARP and COAZ adopted as Working Group Drafts on 2026-06-15; to be refined through community review and interoperability testing. (2026-10-13) authzen
schema.org vocabulary for products, offers, sellers and lodging (current release) specification Current release V30.1, 2026-09-16 (previous 30.0, 2026-03-19). Term definitions are quoted from schema.org without comment. (2026-10-13) schema-org
schema.org open issues relevant to agents, bookings, product and establishment identity work-item Issues #4824, #4786, #4828, #4774 and #4928 were open on 2026-10-13 (issue #4928, 1 comment, last activity 2026-10-08). The Digital Product Passport vocabulary (PR #4871, merged 2026-08-17) is the file data/ext/pending/issue-4870.ttl on main as read on 2026... (2026-10-13) schema-org

Other standards bodies 2

EntryWhere it stands (per the map)Catalog
CEN/CENELEC JTC 24 Digital Product Passport standards (EN 18216 to EN 18246) specification Eight horizontal standards; six cited in the Official Journal of the EU according to the CEN-CENELEC page of 2026-07-15 (page re-read on 2026-10-13, unchanged); the two not cited are EN 18239 and EN 18246, and their status is not read. The Official Journal ... (2026-10-13) digital-product-passport-standards
IEEE P3931 Agent Description, Discovery, and Registry (ADDR) Interoperability work-item PAR approved 2026-03-26; "Draft Development" on the IEEE SA active PARs page of the AI standards committee read on 2026-10-13. (2026-10-13) ieee-p3931

GS1 2

EntryWhere it stands (per the map)Catalog
GS1-Conformant Resolver Standard 1.2.1 specification Release 1.2.1 ratified August 2026 (standards page and PDF print no day); the archive page on ref.gs1.org lists "Published 19 August 2026". (2026-10-13) gs1-conformant-resolver
GS1 Digital Link Standard, URI Syntax 1.7.0 specification Release 1.7.0 ratified August 2026; the archive on ref.gs1.org lists "Published 7 August 2026". (2026-10-13) gs1-digital-link

IETF 10

EntryWhere it stands (per the map)Catalog
IETF agentproto (Agent Communication Protocols WG) charter The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) announced on 2026-10-08, 16:55 UTC, "A new IETF WG has been formed in the Applications and Real-Time Area" for Agent Communication Protocols (agentproto), chairs Orie Steele and Leslie Daigle, and names the res... (2026-10-26)
IETF AI Preferences (aipref WG) venue The vocabulary draft is at -08 (2026-09-13 in the datatracker history) and the attach draft was last seen at -05 (2026-08-19). A virtual interim meeting is announced for 2026-10-21. On 2026-10-13 the datatracker record gives revision 08 of the vocabulary dr... (2026-10-13) aipref
IETF AUDIT (BoF preparation) charter Charter text under discussion on the audit list and in mirjak/audit-bof-preparation; the BoF request lists "User e-commerce use case" in its proposed agenda (file updated 2026-09-18). On 2026-10-05 and 2026-10-06 participants agreed in words on the sentence... (2026-10-23)
IETF DAWN, Discovery of Agents With Names (working group) charter The IESG approved the DAWN charter on 2026-10-22 and the Working Group (WG) is active: the datatracker group history of that day records "Charter approved, group active", and the group page lists the approved charter as charter-ietf-dawn-01, posted on 2026-... (2026-10-23)
DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID, draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid) work-item Individual Internet-Draft -02 (2026-05-27), "(No stream defined)", not adopted by a Working Group (WG); expires 2026-11-28. Related individual proposals, none adopted by a WG (datatracker, 2026-10-13): draft-ihsanullah-dnsid-01 (2026-06-29), draft-ferro-dns... (2026-10-13) dns-aid
Payment HTTP Authentication Scheme (draft-httpauth-payment, Tempo Labs and Stripe) specification Individual draft-httpauth-payment-01 (2026-09-09), Standards Track intended, no Working Group (WG), expires 2027-03-13; authors from Tempo Labs and Stripe. The datatracker record of 2026-10-13 gives revision 01 (time 2026-09-09 16:08 UTC) and no later revis... (2026-10-14) payment-http-authentication-scheme
Individual IETF drafts on the seller side work-item 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 individual submission date... (2026-10-13)
IETF vcon (Virtualized Conversations WG) charter Active working group in the Applications and Real-Time Area, charter-ietf-vcon-01 approved (last updated 2026-03-18); its core draft, draft-ietf-vcon-vcon-core-04 (Standards Track), is dated 2026-09-07. The datatracker lists four charter milestones, dated 2... (2026-10-25) vcon
IETF Web Bot Auth (webbotauth WG) venue Active Working Group (WG), listed for coordination by the draft W3C Agentic Web charter; the first WG draft, draft-ietf-webbotauth-httpsig-protocol-00, was adopted on 2026-09-01, and a two-hour session was requested for IETF 127 on 2026-09-15. Implementatio... (2026-10-26) web-bot-auth
IETF WIMSE, AI Identity Management System (draft-ietf-wimse-aims) work-item Working Group (WG) document draft-ietf-wimse-aims-00 (2026-09-15), Informational; adopted 2026-09-09, expires 2027-03-19; replaces draft-klrc-aiagent-auth. The datatracker record of 2026-10-13 gives revision 00 (time 2026-09-15 14:40 UTC) and no later revis... (2026-10-13) wimse

UN/CEFACT 2

EntryWhere it stands (per the map)Catalog
UN Global Trust Register, namespace urn:gtr work-item Namespace "IANA registration pending" per the UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP) specification. Not found in the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespaces registry (updated 2026-10-12, read 2026-10-13): a record named gtr. (2026-10-13) un-global-trust-register
UN Transparency Protocol, Identity Resolver specification Latest stable version 0.7.0 (GitLab tag of 2026-05-04); the 0.7.0 page says the team "expects to release UNTP version 1.0", without a date. (2026-10-13) untp

W3C 14

EntryWhere it stands (per the map)Catalog
W3C Agent Identity Registry Protocol Community Group venue Community group created 2026-04-24; calls every two weeks on Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC; the call of 2026-10-06 had an agenda on the list (message of 2026-10-01) and minutes of 22 September were posted on 2026-10-01; minutes of the call of 2026-10-06 and a later... (2026-10-13)
W3C Agent-Ready Video Community Group venue Created 2026-10-01; chairs not yet selected: the W3C group data list no chair on 2026-10-13, and the group's list holds one message, the call for participation of 2026-10-01. (2026-10-13)
W3C Agent-to-Web Framework (A2WF) Community Group venue Community group created 2026-03-29; may publish Specifications; one chair is listed on the W3C group data on 2026-10-13, and the list public-a2wf has no October 2026 archive (HTTP 404 on the index). (2026-10-13)
W3C Agentic Web Working Group (draft charter) charter Draft charter for a proposed Working Group, in charter refinement: the announcement on public-new-work gave approx. 2026-11-10 as the end of refinement (W3C Team estimate), and the Strategy issue #576, open on 2026-10-23 with the label "In Charter Refinemen... (2026-10-23)
W3C AI Agent Protocol Community Group venue 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 a meeting was hel... (2026-10-23)
W3C Browser Testing and Tools Working Group charter The Browser Testing and Tools Working Group has a new charter: the W3C charters page of the group lists it as "Chartered under the Patent Policy 2025 from 2026-10-21 until 2028-10-20 (active)", and the charter document gives "Start date 20 October 2026" and... (2026-10-23)
W3C DID Methods Working Group (proposed charter) charter Proposed charter in Advisory Committee review (2026-09-30); public comments invited through 2026-10-28. (2026-10-13)
W3C DID Resolution specification Candidate Recommendation Snapshot 2026-08-06; current Candidate Recommendation Draft 2026-10-01 (also 2026-08-28), which marks the Decentralized Identifier (DID) URL dereferencing feature and sections 5, 6, 8 and 10 as at risk. The exclusion opportunity on ... (2026-10-13) did-resolution
W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group (proposed charter) charter Proposed maintenance charter sent to the Advisory Committee on 2026-10-07; W3C invites public comments through 2026-11-05, and the Advisory Committee call for review closes at 23:59 UTC on 2026-11-05. The current charter of the group "is hereby extended unt... (2026-10-09)
W3C Digital Policy Working Group (ODRL, draft charter) charter Draft charter in refinement until approx. 2026-11-02 (public-new-work, 2026-09-30); TPAC breakout #17 aims to discuss it. (2026-10-03) odrl
W3C/GS1 Workshop on E-commerce for Humans and AI Agents (Zurich, 8-9 Sep 2026) event Workshop held 2026-09-08/09 at Google Zurich, co-organised by W3C and GS1. A report and follow-up session is proposed for Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) 2026 (breakout #34, open on 2026-10-13 with one comment and no assigned slot). A worksh... (2026-10-13)
W3C TPAC 2026 breakouts on agents (Dublin, 2026-10-26/30) event Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) 2026 takes place 2026-10-26 to 2026-10-30 in Dublin (hybrid). The deadline for breakout proposals to be scheduled in advance was 2026-10-08 and has passed; the README (read 2026-10-13) says that "Around 19 Oct... (2026-10-14)
W3C Web Payment Security Interest Group venue Chartered 2025-04-01 to 2027-03-31 (shortname securepay); the draft Agentic Web charter lists the IG for "agentic payments". (2026-10-03)
WebMCP (Draft Community Group Report, Web Machine Learning CG) specification Draft Community Group Report, dated 9 October 2026 on the page read on 2026-10-13 (2026-09-30 on 2026-10-03), no numbered version; on 2026-10-08 PR #338, "Remove declarative API from spec", was merged (the specification now focuses on the imperative registe... (2026-10-13) webmcp

Map data from the Agentic Standards Map by Francesco Marinoni Moretto, CC BY 4.0, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23357361; map generated 2026-10-27. This page is rebuilt by PLANNING/build-agentic-standards-map.py. Related: The Specification Layer · Well-Known URIs.