DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID)

DNS-AID is an individual IETF draft for publishing AI agents in the Domain Name System so other agents can discover them, including reserved parameters for commercial signals such as pricing and rate-limit hints.

Where it stands

As of 2026-10-13, the Agentic Standards Map records:

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-dnsop-apertoid-02 (2026-08-12), draft-morrison-mcp-dns-discovery-08 (2026-10-09) and draft-ranjbar-dane-did-01 (2026-08-01), and a fifth, draft-ranjbar-dane-anchored-identity-00 (2026-07-21; datatracker, 2026-10-15); DNS-AID is not among them. …

Why it matters to agents

The abstract says the document “standardizes an approach for publishing AI agents in the Domain Name System (DNS) so that other agents can discover them”. The draft publishes AI agents in DNS; Section 5.6 reserves SvcParamKeys for “commercial signaling such as cost-per-unit-of-input, unit-of-input definitions, billing tiers, or rate-limit hints”.

Sources

• https://github.com/danubetech/did-method-dns/issues/12
• https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2026Jul/0041.html
• https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid-02.txt
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dnsop/documents/
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ihsanullah-dnsid/
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ferro-dnsop-apertoid/

Status and relevance quoted, shortened, from the Agentic Standards Map by Francesco Marinoni Moretto, CC BY 4.0, https://frmoretto.github.io/agentic-standards-map/. The full entry, with every dated source, is in map.json under ietf-dnsaid.

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