--- title: Vint Cerf wants to give AI agents an identity | daily.dev description: Vint Cerf, co-designer of TCP/IP and recent Google alumnus, is joining the advisory council of Innovation Labs to help build an open identity layer for AI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vint-cerf-wants-to-give-ai-agents-an-identity-0xhd6c8uz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Vint Cerf wants to give AI agents an identity | daily.dev og:description: Vint Cerf, co-designer of TCP/IP and recent Google alumnus, is joining the advisory council of Innovation Labs to help build an open identity layer for AI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vint-cerf-wants-to-give-ai-agents-an-identity-0xhd6c8uz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0xHd6c8uz.png og:image:alt: Vint Cerf wants to give AI agents an identity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Vint Cerf wants to give AI agents an identity **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Vint Cerf, co-designer of TCP/IP and recent Google alumnus, is joining the advisory council of Innovation Labs to help build an open identity layer for AI agents. The project, called DNSid, would assign each AI agent a durable identity tied to an existing domain name and backed by cryptographic proof, addressing the lack of accountability when agents act autonomously on the open web. The design has been submitted to internet standards bodies. Cerf sees agent identity as the internet's next major architectural challenge, drawing parallels to how TCP/IP won out over competing protocols — not through politics, but by working best. The initiative emphasizes openness, with no single tech giant controlling the standard or holding registration data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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