Dynamic Multi-agent Secured Collaboration (DMSC)
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Title Dynamic Multi-agent Secured Collaboration (DMSC)
Last updated 2026-05-20
State Proposed
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Name: Dynamic Multi-agent Secured Collaboration (DMSC)

Description

With the rapid emergence of diverse AI agents and various use cases, especially that are described in 3GPP(SA1 R20 Study on 6G Use Cases and Service Requirements(TR 22.870)) , a critical challenge arose is to enable dynamic collaboration among these agents to perform complex tasks on behalf of end-users. At the same time, there is a growing need to ensure that such collaboration is scalable, manageable, operational and secure.
Service providers and cloud operators face the task of designing and optimizing a comprehensive communication architecture that enables secure and efficient collaboration between heterogeneous AI agents, ensuring the following:

  • AI Agent Gateway based, distributed agent identification, capability advertisement, and reachability.
  • Capability based peer agent selection and request forwarding via the AI Agent Gateway.
  • Synchronization or exchange of agent capability information among distributed AI Agent Gateways within the same domain, including support for existing agent metadata representation approaches (e.g., agent cards).
  • Inter-domain AI Agents information exchange and trust establishment, including interoperable capability representation and policy exchange across gateways and domains to support secure agent collaboration and forwarding.
  • Operational visibility, observability, and policy control for AI agent communications and collaboration flows.

To address these challenges, the Dynamic, Multi-Agent, Secured Collaboration (DMSC) working group will explore solutions for defining interoperable protocols and mechanisms that enables AI agents to collaborate effectively in complex human-driven tasks. This work will focus on interoperable mechanisms for agent capability exposure, forwarding, coordination, and secure communication, while allowing flexibility for different agent metadata representation models and deployment architectures (e.g., agent-card-based approaches).

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To allow evaluation of your proposal, please include the following items:

  • Any protocols or practices that already exist in this space:

    There are no standardized protocols that define how to build an operable, manageable infrastructure for AI agent collaboration via an AI agent gateway.

    Various AI Agent Gateway implementations already exist, which creates a demand for standardization of communication between AI agents and their gateways, as well as synchronization across AI agent gateways. Existing emerging approaches, including Agent Card based ecosystems and open source A2A frameworks, primarily relying on centralized registration or directory mechanisms, but do not address gateway anchored agent communication, distributed gateway coordination, and operational management

  • Which (if any) modifications to existing protocols or practices are required: TBD

  • Which (if any) entirely new protocols or practices are required:

    The AI agent gateway based communication protocol suites,the communication between AI agents and their gateway, as well as information synchronization among AI agent gateways.

  • Open source projects (if any) implementing this work:

    OpenGateway: https://github.com/anAtheist987/OpenGateway

    ANP: https://github.com/agent-network-protocol/AgentNetworkProtocol

    AIP: https://github.com/AIP-PUB/Agent-Interconnection-Protocol-Project

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