dot-agent-protocol

Key Contacts and Resources for .agent Domain Standardization

Standards Organizations

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

General Contact

• Website: https://www.ietf.org/
• Email: ietf-info@ietf.org
• Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/

Relevant Working Groups

DNS Operations (dnsop)

• Mailing List: dnsop@ietf.org
• Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
• Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dnsop/about/
• Chairs:
  • Suzanne Woolf
  • Tim Wicinski
  • Benno Overeinder

Security Dispatch (secdispatch)

• Mailing List: secdispatch@ietf.org
• Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/secdispatch
• Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/secdispatch/about/

Area Directors

Operations and Management Area

• Current Directors: https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/

Document Submission

• Submission Tool: https://datatracker.ietf.org/submit/
• Guidelines: https://www.ietf.org/standards/ids/guidelines/
• Tools: https://author-tools.ietf.org/

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

• Website: https://www.iana.org/
• Email: iana@iana.org
• Special-Use Domain Names Registry: https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• Website: https://www.w3.org/
• Community Groups: https://www.w3.org/community/
• Technical Architecture Group: https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

Key Experts and Contributors

Special-Use Domain Experts

Jacob Appelbaum & Alec Muffett

• Authors of RFC 7686 (The “.onion” Special-Use Domain Name)
• Contact through IETF mailing lists

Stuart Cheshire

• Author of RFC 6762 (Multicast DNS) which defines the “.local” special-use domain
• Apple Inc.
• Contact through IETF mailing lists

Paul Hoffman

• DNS and IANA expert
• ICANN
• Contact through IETF mailing lists

P2P and DHT Experts

Juan Benet

• Creator of IPFS and libp2p
• Protocol Labs
• GitHub: @jbenet

Petar Maymounkov & David Mazières

• Creators of Kademlia DHT algorithm
• Contact through academic institutions

AI and Distributed Systems Experts

Note: This section should be populated with experts in AI systems and distributed computing who may provide valuable input on the technical architecture.

Reference Implementations and Libraries

P2P Networking

• libp2p: https://libp2p.io/
• IPFS: https://ipfs.io/
• Hyperswarm: https://github.com/hyperswarm/hyperswarm

DHT Implementations

• Kademlia: https://github.com/bmuller/kademlia
• Mainline DHT: https://github.com/jech/dht
• OpenDHT: https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/opendht

Cryptographic Libraries

• libsodium: https://libsodium.org/
• Noise Protocol Framework: https://noiseprotocol.org/
• OpenSSL: https://www.openssl.org/

Key Documents and References

RFCs and Internet Standards

• RFC 7686: The “.onion” Special-Use Domain Name
• RFC 6761: Special-Use Domain Names
• RFC 6762: Multicast DNS
• RFC 8484: DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)
• RFC 7858: DNS over TLS

Academic Papers

• Kademlia: A Peer-to-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric - Maymounkov & Mazières
• S/Kademlia: A Practicable Approach Towards Secure Key-Based Routing - Baumgart & Mies
• Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications - Stoica et al.

Process Documents

• IETF Standards Process: RFC 2026
• IETF Working Group Guidelines: RFC 2418
• Special-Use Domain Names Registry: IANA Registry

Conferences and Events

IETF Meetings

• Schedule: Three meetings per year
• Information: https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/
• Remote Participation: Available for all meetings

Relevant Technical Conferences

• USENIX NSDI: Network Systems Design and Implementation
• ACM SIGCOMM: Data Communication
• IEEE INFOCOM: Computer Communications
• Decentralized Web Summit: Focus on P2P technologies
• AI Research Conferences: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR

Community Resources

Mailing Lists

• IETF DNS Operations: dnsop@ietf.org
• IETF DNSEXT: dnsext@ietf.org
• P2P Foundation: https://lists.p2pfoundation.net/

Discussion Forums

• IETF GitHub: https://github.com/ietf
• Decentralized Web: https://github.com/decentralized-web
• AI Alignment Forum: https://www.alignmentforum.org/

Funding and Support Opportunities

Research Grants

• NSF Networking Technology and Systems: https://www.nsf.gov/
• Protocol Labs Research Grants: https://research.protocol.ai/
• Ethereum Foundation Grants: https://ethereum.org/en/foundation/

Industry Support

Note: This section should be populated with organizations that might have interest in supporting the .agent domain standardization.

Legal and Regulatory Considerations

Intellectual Property

• IETF IPR Policy: https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/ipr/
• Open Source Licensing: https://opensource.org/licenses

Privacy Regulations

• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): EU privacy regulation
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA): California privacy law
• Privacy considerations for AI systems: Various frameworks

How to Update This Document

This document should be maintained and updated regularly as the project progresses. Key updates include:

1. New Contacts: Add relevant experts and contributors as they are identified
2. Updated Resources: Add new tools, libraries, and references as they become available
3. Event Information: Update conference schedules and participation opportunities
4. Progress Tracking: Note key milestones achieved in the standardization process

To update this document, please submit changes via pull request or contact the project maintainers directly.

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