The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) has recently introduced a new standard for securely discovering AI agents. Inspired by DNS, the Agent Name Service (ANS) provides a protocol-agn

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OWASP has introduced the Agent Name Service (ANS), a DNS-inspired protocol for secure AI agent discovery. ANS addresses limitations of traditional DNS by providing semantic understanding, identity verification through PKI, and support for emerging agent communication protocols like Google's Agent2Agent and Anthropic's Model Context Protocol. The system uses structured naming conventions and cryptographic verification to enable secure agent-to-agent discovery and communication.

Introducing ANS: DNS-Inspired Secure Discovery for AI Agents