Research Papers
Technical papers on AgenticDNS and the NANDA architecture.
Beyond DNS: Unlocking the Internet of AI Agents via the NANDA Index and Verified AgentFacts
Technical paper describing the NANDA index architecture, AgentFacts schema, and resolution mechanisms for internet-scale AI agent discovery.
Key Claims
- • Lean index: ≤120 bytes per AgentAddr record, 10⁴× fewer writes than DNS
- • AgentFacts: JSON-LD, W3C VC-signed, enables rapid updates without index writes
- • Sub-second revocation via VC-Status-List
- • Privacy-preserving resolution via PrivateFactsURL
- • TTL-based caching: Index (1-6h), Metadata (5-15min), Routing (30-60s)
- • Quilt-like interoperability with enterprise registries and public directories
- • Adaptive routing: static, rotating, and adaptive endpoints
Evolution of AI Agent Registry Solutions
Comparative analysis of five registry approaches: MCP, A2A, AGNTCY, Microsoft Entra, and NANDA AgentFacts.
Key Claims
- • Compares centralized (MCP), decentralized (A2A, AGNTCY), enterprise (Entra), and verifiable (NANDA) approaches
- • Evaluates across security, authentication, scalability, and maintainability
- • NANDA AgentFacts provides cryptographic verification, privacy-preserving discovery, and federated trust
- • Highlights architectural trade-offs between control, governance, and resilience
Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a Next-Gen Trusted Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?
Analysis of whether to upgrade existing DNS infrastructure or implement purpose-built agent registries, with historical parallels to dial-up→broadband.
Key Claims
- • DNS update propagation: 24-48 hours worst-case, unworkable for dynamic agents
- • Certificate revocation (CRL/OCSP) cannot keep pace with millisecond-level agent revocations
- • IPv4/IPv6 addressing insufficient for trillions of agents (routing table inflation, privacy rotation)
- • Continuum: Endpoints → Services → Workers → Agents (autonomy threshold)
- • Hybrid approach: Lean index + dynamic metadata + local policy resolvers
- • Rollout like internetworking: local networks → peering → global internet