IEEE P3931 is a standards project, approved in March 2026 and in draft development, to specify a description model, registry mechanisms and discovery protocols for agents operating across platforms and organizations.
IEEE P3931 Agent Description, Discovery and Registry (ADDR)
IEEE P3931 is a standards project, approved in March 2026 and in draft development, to specify a description model, registry mechanisms and discovery protocols for agents operating across platforms and organizations.
Where it stands
As of 2026-10-13, the Agentic Standards Map records:
PAR approved 2026-03-26; “Draft Development” on the IEEE SA active PARs page of the AI standards committee read on 2026-10-13.
Why it matters to agents
The Project Authorization Request (PAR) says the standard will specify “a description model, registry mechanisms, and discovery protocols for intelligent agents operating across platforms, organizations, and ecosystems”.
Sources
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 ieee-p3931-addr.
Industry: cross-domain
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