{
 "id": "agent-channel-fan-out",
 "name": "Agent-Channel Frame for Identity-Keyed Fan-Out Delivery to Concurrent Sessions",
 "acronym": "",
 "aliases": [
  "agent-channel frame",
  "draft-morrison-agent-channel-fan-out"
 ],
 "collisions": [],
 "step": "coordinate",
 "parties": [
  "agent-agent"
 ],
 "form": "endpoint",
 "track": "ietf",
 "scope": "general",
 "question": "How can concurrent agent sessions of one identity-bound principal (or members of an organisation) exchange short structured messages through identity-keyed fan-out delivery rather than a shared-file fallback?",
 "analog": "A pub/sub message envelope with Server-Sent Events delivery, addressed by identity scope rather than endpoint",
 "origin": {
  "org": "Alter Meridian Pty Ltd",
  "date": "2026-10-09"
 },
 "governance": "Individual Internet-Draft by a single author, submitted via the IETF datatracker; not an IETF working group document.",
 "native_status": "Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Informational; expires 12 April 2027",
 "phase": "draft",
 "implementation": "unknown",
 "adoption": {
  "level": "unmeasured",
  "by": null,
  "probe_run": null
 },
 "version": {
  "label": "draft-morrison-agent-channel-fan-out-02",
  "date": "2026-10-09"
 },
 "spec_url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-morrison-agent-channel-fan-out-02",
 "discovery": {
  "mechanism": "Delivery substrate addressed via the discovery mechanism of draft-morrison-mcp-dns-discovery (DNS-based); per-handle SSE stream",
  "path": null
 },
 "probe": {
  "method": "NONE",
  "path": "",
  "parse": "",
  "on_absent": "No public probe defined in the available text; support cannot be observed from a site without the companion discovery draft details."
 },
 "evidence": [
  {
   "claim": "Internet-Draft specifies a JSON agent-channel frame with a closed catalogue of kinds, identity attribution pair, provenance block, recipient scope expansion, and per-handle Server-Sent Events delivery with subscribe-time filters.",
   "label": "REPORTED",
   "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-morrison-agent-channel-fan-out-02",
   "date": "2026-10-09"
  }
 ],
 "summary_md": "An individual Internet-Draft (Informational) defining an application-layer JSON frame, the agent-channel frame, for short structured messages between concurrent agent sessions of one principal or members of an organisation. Senders name a recipient scope that is expanded against live subscriptions at delivery time, and recipients receive frames over a per-handle Server-Sent Events stream with an optional subscribe filter. Frames are ephemeral; persistence is out of scope. It composes with draft-morrison-mcp-dns-discovery and draft-morrison-identity-accord and introduces no new transport.",
 "part_of": null,
 "group": null,
 "candidate": true,
 "confidence": 0.6,
 "use_cases": [
  "agent-to-agent-messaging"
 ],
 "audience": [
  "agent-builder",
  "standards-body"
 ],
 "pairs_with": [
  "mcp-dns-discovery"
 ],
 "prerequisites": [],
 "dispute": null,
 "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
 "history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "note": "auto-drafted candidate from exa (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-morrison-agent-channel-fan-out-02)"
  }
 ],
 "watch": [
  {
   "type": "page",
   "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-morrison-agent-channel-fan-out-02"
  }
 ],
 "freshness": "current"
}