What is the adoption and standardization status of Agent Identity Protocol (did:aip, Singla draft)?

Internet-Draft; the did:aip DID method is "requested for registration" with status Draft (Section 22.1) — phase draft, governed by Individual author's IETF Internet-Draft; no working group adoption stated on the page. Adoption: unmeasured. Version: Draft (version not stated; before v1.0 minor versions may break compatibility). Last verified 2026-10-19.

How does Agent Identity Protocol (did:aip, Singla draft) compare to other identify protocols?

Agent Identity Protocol (did:aip, Singla draft) is one of 23 standards at step 2, Identify (Who is this agent? Who is this site?). It pairs with Model Context Protocol, Workload Identity in Multi System Environments (WIMSE) Architecture. Every standard at this step is listed at https://agenticweb.wiki/category/identify/.

Agent Identity Protocol (did:aip, Singla draft) AIP

2 · Identify

Candidate · auto-drafted, unreviewed · confidence 60%

Agent Identity Protocol (did:aip, Singla draft)
Category	Identify
Governed by	Individual author's IETF Internet-Draft; no working group adoption stated on the page
Status	Internet-Draft; the did:aip DID method is "requested for registration" with status Draft (Section 22.1)
Phase	draft
Implementation	none found
Adoption	unmeasured
Version	Draft (version not stated; before v1.0 minor versions may break compatibility)
Specification	https://insights.bostonidentity.com/research/ietf-datatracker-2026-04-17-agent-identity-protocol-aip
Found at	A principal's did:aip DID document names its Registry; the Registry holds a versioned Trust Record and issues credential tokens
Acronym collisions	aip, did:aip Solana-based DID method in the W3C DID method registry, Agent Identity Protocol (Prakash, arXiv 2603.24775)
Last checked	2026-10-19
Freshness	current · checked 2026-10-19
Solves	Prove an agent's identity, Delegate a user's authority to an agent, Audit what an agent did

Agent Identity Protocol (did:aip, Singla draft) is an agentic-web standard (document format) at step 2, Identify, governed by Individual author's IETF Internet-Draft; its own status is "Internet-Draft; the did:aip DID method is "requested for registration" with status Draft (Section 22.1)" (draft). It answers: How can an agent get a registry-anchored did:aip identity with a signed capability manifest and a delegation chain back to a person or organisation, which relying parties and MCP servers can check and revoke? Adoption is unmeasured, last verified 2026-10-19.

Identify Draft by Paras Singla that defines did:aip, a DID method whose identifiers derive from an agent's Ed25519 key, with a Registry that issues short-lived signed Credential Tokens. It also covers Capability Manifests, delegation chains with scope attenuation (default depth 3, hard cap 10), revocation and an AIP-GRANT consent ceremony. For MCP servers the Registry acts as an OAuth server and issues DPoP-bound tokens by RFC 8693 token exchange. A third-party briefing reports that Tier 2 scopes require live Registry revocation checks, and that the did:aip name collides with another project's registered method.

Discovery and probe

A principal's did:aip DID document names its Registry; the Registry holds a versioned Trust Record and issues credential tokens

NONE 
parse:     
on absent: No site-level probe is defined; support cannot be observed from a well-known path.

Not probed live: no-fixed-path. candidate record; probe rule pending

History

2026-10-19 — auto-drafted candidate from exa (https://insights.bostonidentity.com/research/ietf-datatracker-2026-04-17-agent-identity-protocol-aip)

Instances

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References

Boston Identity's IAM Insights briefing reports that the draft defines did:aip identifiers, a Registry, Capability Manifests, EdDSA-signed Credential Tokens, delegation chains with attenuation, an AIP-GRANT ceremony and Approval Envelopes. It also reports that no deployment or implementation is named, and that the draft's claim of W3C did:aip registration conflicts with its IANA-section statement that registration is only requested. — https://insights.bostonidentity.com/research/ietf-datatracker-2026-04-17-agent-identity-protocol-aip (2026-10-16) REPORTED

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