@techreport{jakab-dawn-agent-discovery-mdns-00,
    number =    {draft-jakab-dawn-agent-discovery-mdns-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jakab-dawn-agent-discovery-mdns/00/},
    author =    {Loránd Jakab and Frank Brockners},
    title =     {{Zero-Configuration Agent Discovery}},
    pagetotal = 20,
    year =      2026,
    month =     jul,
    day =       6,
    abstract =  {Protocols for communication between autonomous software agents typically discover agents through documents retrieved over HTTPS from a well-known URI. This model requires a discovering party to already know an agent's host name or URL, or to consult a centralized catalog. It provides no zero-configuration mechanism for enumerating agents that are present on a local network. This document describes how existing, widely deployed protocols, Multicast DNS (mDNS) and DNS-Based Service Discovery (DNS-SD), can be used to advertise and discover agents on a local link, with no new protocol machinery. It presents a general, protocol-independent two- stage discovery model in which lightweight enumeration over DNS-SD is followed by retrieval of full agent metadata over the agent's native transport. It gives a worked instantiation of that model for the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, as an example.},
}