Draft 2026-W40

A. N. Besleaga proposes that a site publish one list of its knowledge files at a fixed web address, each link able to carry a fingerprint so a client can check what it downloaded. A first draft by an independent author, intended as Informational. Not a standard.

Version 1.2.0 of the official Python library for A2A (Agent2Agent, a protocol for AI agents talking to each other) came out on 29 September 2026. It adds caching headers to the Agent Card endpoint and serves REST responses as application/a2a+json. Plumbing, not a new capability.

A proposed IETF working group, DAWN (Discovery of Agents With Names), would standardise only the first step of finding an AI agent: asking for its minimum public information. On 30 September 2026 its charter went to a first ballot. A proposal then, since approved on 22 October.