Vint Cerf is working on DNSid — verifiable identities for AI agents, built on the domain-name system

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, after 20 years at Google, is advising Innovation Labs on DNSid: a proposed open identity layer that ties AI-agent identities to existing DNS domain names using cryptographic proofs, so autonomous agents acting across organizations can be identified and held accountable.

What it means As agents start transacting across company boundaries, 'which agent is this and who answers for it' becomes infrastructure — this is one of the first serious open proposals for that layer.