Proposed Group: Agent Trust Protocol (ATP) Community Group

The Agent Trust Protocol (ATP) Community Group has been proposed by Larry Lewis:

Autonomous AI agents are being deployed at scale with no open standard governing how they prove identity, establish trust, or protect the privacy of the humans they represent. The mission of the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP) Community Group is to address this gap by producing open specifications that fill the Security and Privacy modules described by the AI Agent Protocol Community Group, modules currently marked as pending community contribution.

This group will create Specifications for:

• the  did:atp  quantum-safe DID method (hybrid Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 post-quantum signatures)
• an agent trust scoring model backed by W3C Verifiable Credentials
• privacy-first interaction mechanisms including pairwise DIDs, selective disclosure, and zero-knowledge proofs
• a conformance test suite to drive interoperability

This Community Group was formed at the invitation of the AI Agent Protocol CG Chairs and intends to collaborate with that group.

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of 5 supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team