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Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet

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17 July 2026

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technology

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AI AgentsData Infrastructure

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United States

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Fusion42 · 17 July 2026 · Fusion42 review

Vint Cerf is advising a DNS registry subsidiary's effort to create open standards for AI agents to identify themselves on the internet, addressing the lack of shared infrastructure for autonomous agent accountability and auditability.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Agents and Data Infrastructure.

◆ The Wire takeaway

If you're building AI agents that work across the open internet, you need identity infrastructure that doesn't exist yet - and the person who standardised TCP/IP is now designing it. The DNS layer just became the identity layer for machines.

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1 source · 17 Jul 2026

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