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<reference anchor="I-D.hood-agtp-presence" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-hood-agtp-presence-00">
   <front>
      <title>AGTP Presence: Ambient Discovery and Visibility for Agent Substrates</title>
      <author initials="C." surname="Hood" fullname="Chris Hood">
         <organization>Nomotic, Inc.</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="June" day="28" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document specifies AGTP Presence, an ambient discovery and
   visibility layer for the Agent Transfer Protocol (AGTP).  Existing
   agent discovery proposals are pull-based: an agent must know where to
   look (a catalog URL, a registry endpoint, a DNS name) before
   discovery can begin.  AGTP Presence inverts this model.  When an
   agent joins the AGTP substrate, it becomes structurally addressable
   and visible to the relevant scope of other agents immediately,
   without requiring registration with a central directory.

   The architecture combines three proven patterns: a Distributed Hash
   Table (DHT) keyed by Canonical Agent-ID for content-addressable
   routing, a gossip-based protocol for presence announcement and
   convergence, and trust-tier-scoped overlay partitioning for
   visibility control.  Per-agent visibility is cryptographically
   declared in AGTP-CERT certificate extensions and enforced
   structurally, with three orthogonal axes of control: presence
   visibility, disclosure visibility, and audience scoping.

   This document defines three new lifecycle methods (ANNOUNCE,
   WITHDRAW, PROBE), specifies the DHT and gossip protocols, defines the
   visibility model and its certificate extensions, addresses scaling
   through hybrid participation modes and federation-of-scoped-overlays,
   and provides a threat model with concrete mitigations.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-hood-agtp-presence-00" />
   
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