该机构提出 DNSid 标准，为每个 AI 智能体关联现有互联网域名并通过加密证明记录注册，旨在解决智能体在开放互联网上缺乏统一身份识别与审计标准的问题。 Cerf 认为，用户需求将推动不同厂商的智能体协议实现互操作，如同当年 TCP/IP 的普及。
文特·瑟夫说，他最喜欢的地方是他从未去过的地方。
作为开放互联网背后协议的架构师之一，瑟夫上周在谷歌工作 20 年后离开了公司：https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/，但他仍在思考数字未来。从今天起，他将担任 Innovation Labs 的顾问，这是一家试图创建开放架构以让 AI 代理能够自我识别的组织。
Innovation Labs 是 DNS 注册公司 Identity Digital 的子公司，该公司将域名基础设施视为让 AI 代理问责的实际方式，并为未来更多在线互动发生在代理而非人之间的场景定位。瑟夫加入了一小部分互联网知名人士的行列：https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/30/3319580/0/en/innovation-labs-by-identity-digital-convenes-infrastructure-security-and-finance-leaders-to-help-shape-accountability-framework-for-ai-agents.html，为这一努力提供支持。
目前大多数 AI 代理都停留在专有系统内，调用内部资源完成特定任务。但企业已经在设想一个世界，在那里这些代理将在互联网上更自主地运作，并与其他代理直接互动。到目前为止，一个关键障碍是缺乏用于识别和审计代理的共享标准。
各种标准正在逐渐出现，Innovation Labs 提出了 DNSid：https://dnsid.ai/，这是一种代理识别的注册系统：https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ihsanullah-dnsid/，它将每个代理与现有互联网域名关联，并使用加密证明随时间记录其注册。Innovation Labs 的临时首席执行官 Allie Kline 表示，公司正在与几家未透露名称的超大规模云服务商和身份公司试行这些标准。
“我觉得自己可能能够在一个命名和身份识别变得越来越重要的时期帮助他们，”瑟夫告诉 TechCrunch。“这在很大程度上是由 AI 代理的概念触发的，以及有关它们拥有哪些权限、这些权限从何而来、谁对代理在此情境下的行为负责、其身份在哪里以及如何确立，以及为什么你会信任它的问题。”
Cerf表示，这些问题可能会很棘手，因为人工智能代理比领域活跃得多，而且目前尚不清楚组织在注册一个代理时做出了怎样的承诺。
“这将是互联网及其依赖事物发展的一个引人入胜——同时也可能令人恼火的时期，因为其功能性非常强大，”Cerf说道。
针对正在考虑的多个解决方案，Cerf表示，任何协议能广泛采用的关键在于其功能性。
“公司X使用代理Y的技术，而公司A使用代理C的技术，然后它们之间无法互操作，”Cerf说道。“没有人能做到每个代理可能想做的所有事情……因此我们将不得不依赖用户施加的压力。这正是TCP/IP发生的情况。”
Kline表示，Innovation Labs提案的关键之一是它没有附带进行其他类型AI业务或拥有注册数据的更广计划。“我认为人们对大型云服务商发布[标准]并拥有这些专有数据存在很大的排斥，”她告诉TechCrunch。
那么Cerf认为代理经济是互联网的命运吗？
“我不认为这是不可避免的，”他说。“但我确实认为不可避免的是人们会尝试这么做。我们从根本上是懒惰的生物，如果我们找到让代理为我们做某件事的方法，我们很可能会选择这样做，因为这更简单。”
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Vint Cerf says his favorite place is where he’s never been before.
One of the architects of the protocols behind the open internet, Cerf left Google：https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/ after 20 years last week, but he’s not done thinking about the digital future. Starting today, he’s advising Innovation Labs, an organization trying to create the open architecture for AI agents to identify themselves.
Innovation Labs is a subsidiary of Identity Digital, a DNS registry company, which sees domain-name infrastructure as a practical way to hold AI agents accountable and position itself for a future where more online interaction happens between agents than people. Cerf joins a handful：https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/30/3319580/0/en/innovation-labs-by-identity-digital-convenes-infrastructure-security-and-finance-leaders-to-help-shape-accountability-framework-for-ai-agents.html of other internet luminaries lending their names to the effort.
Most AI agents today stay within proprietary systems, calling on internal resources for specific purposes. But businesses are already envisioning a world where they operate far more autonomously across the internet and interact directly with other agents. So far, a key road block has been a lack of a shared standard for identifying and auditing agents.
A variety of standards are beginning to emerge, and Innovation Labs has proposed DNSid：https://dnsid.ai/, a registry for agent identification：https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ihsanullah-dnsid/ that links each one to an existing internet domain name and uses cryptographic proofs to log its registration over time. Innovation Labs’ interim CEO Allie Kline says the company is trialing the standards with several unnamed hyperscalers and identity companies.
“I felt like I might be able to help them in a period of time when naming and identification is becoming increasingly important,” Cerf told TechCrunch. “This is largely triggered by the notion of AI agents and the question of what authorities they have, where they have derived those authorities, who is accountable for the behavior of an agent in this context, and where and how its identity is established, and why [you’d] trust it.”
Those questions promise to be thorny, Cerf says, because AI agents are so much more active than domains, and it’s not yet clear what commitment an organization is making when they register one.
“It’s going to be a fascinating — and at the same time maybe even exasperating — period in the evolution of the internet and the things that depend on it, because the functionality is so dramatically powerful,” Cerf said.
With multiple solutions to the problem under consideration, Cerf says the key to a wide adoption of any protocol will be its functionality.
“Company X uses agent Y’s technology, and company A uses agent C’s technology, and then they don’t interwork with each other,” Cerf said. “Nobody can do everything that you might want every agent to do… and so we’re going to have to rely on the pressure coming from the users. This is what happened with TCP/IP.”
One key to Innovation Labs’ proposal is that it does not come with broader plans to do other kinds of AI business or own the registration data, Kline says. “I think there’s a lot of organ rejection to a hyperscaler releasing [a standard] and having that proprietary data,” she told TechCrunch.
And does Cerf think the agentic economy is the internet’s destiny?
“I don’t think it’s inevitable,” he said. “But what I do think is inevitable is that people will try to do that. We are fundamentally lazy creatures, and if we find a way to have an an agent do something for us, we’re very likely to choose to do that because [it’s] just easier.”
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