# Agent Identity Protocol (AIP)

> AIP is an individual IETF Internet-Draft (draft-aip-agent-identity-protocol) last revised 16 March 2026 with NVIDIA-affiliated authorship; it defines a two-layer model of agent identity registration plus signature verification and policy enforcement. It is not an IETF-endorsed standard.

An IETF Internet-Draft proposing agentic authentication and policy enforcement, submitted with NVIDIA involvement.

- **Category:** Identity & Permission
- **License:** IETF Internet-Draft (individual submission)
- **Language:** N/A (specification)
- **Self-hosted:** No
- **Last verified:** 2026-10-04

> Caveat: Individual drafts have no formal IETF standing. The name 'AIP' is congested: other unrelated drafts use the same acronym.

Source: https://agent.c8.fit/tools/aip/