# WIMSE AI Identity Management System AIMS

[2 · Identify](/category/identify/)

| WIMSE AI Identity Management System |
| --- |
| Category | [Identify](/category/identify/) |
| Part of | [Workload Identity in Multi System Environments (WIMSE) Architecture](/protocols/wimse/) |
| Governed by | IETF WIMSE Working Group (WG document) |
| Status | Working group document, draft-ietf-wimse-aims-00 (2026-09-15) |
| Phase | working group |
| Implementation | unknown |
| Adoption | unmeasured |
| Version | draft-ietf-wimse-aims-00 (2026-09-15) |
| Specification | [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-wimse-aims/](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-wimse-aims/) |
| Found at | none; a best-practices document, not a discoverable wire protocol |
| Last checked | 2026-10-18 |
| Freshness | current · checked 2026-10-18 |
| Solves | Prove an agent's identity, Delegate a user's authority to an agent |

WIMSE AI Identity Management System (AIMS) is an agentic-web standard (document format) at step 2, Identify, governed by IETF WIMSE Working Group (WG document); its own status is "Working group document, draft-ietf-wimse-aims-00 (2026-09-15)" (working group). It answers: What are the best practices for authenticating and authorising interactions between AI agents and the services they call? Adoption is unmeasured, last verified 2026-10-18.

[Identify](/category/identify/) draft-ietf-wimse-aims is the IETF WIMSE working group's document on best practices for authentication and authorization of AI agent interactions [[1]](#ref-1). It is the working-group successor of the individual draft draft-klrc-aiagent-auth, which this site tracks as aiagent-auth.

## Overview
The draft normatively references the WIMSE architecture, the WIMSE HTTP signature draft, transaction tokens and RFC 9728 (OAuth Protected Resource Metadata) [[1]](#ref-1). It defines no artefact at an origin, so there is nothing to probe.

The first revision, -00, is dated 2026-09-15.

## Discovery and probe

none; a best-practices document, not a discoverable wire protocol

```
GET none
parse:     not applicable: this is a best-practices draft with no origin artefact
on absent: No presence signal exists for this record; absence of a probe result says nothing about adoption.
```

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

## History
- 2026-10-15 — curated update 2026-10-15
- 2026-10-16 — use-case tags (auto)

## Instances

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## See also

- Part of: [Workload Identity in Multi System Environments (WIMSE) Architecture](/protocols/wimse/)

## References

- draft-ietf-wimse-aims-00 is a WIMSE working group document dated 2026-09-15 covering best practices for authentication and authorization of AI agent interactions; it normatively references wimse-arch, wimse-http-signature, transaction tokens and RFC 9728. — [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-wimse-aims/](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-wimse-aims/) (2026-09-15) VERIFIED
- The draft text (AIMS, Kasselman et al., September 2026, expires 19 March 2027) proposes best practices for authentication and authorization of AI agent interactions. — [https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-wimse-aims-00.html](https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-wimse-aims-00.html) (2026-09-15) VERIFIED

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