The third Agentic Internet Workshop meets on Nov. 6 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, according to its organizers. Tickets cost $175 for independents and startups and $325 for corporate attendees, with meals and documentation included.
The organizers say AIW continues the work of the Internet Identity Workshop, which helped shape protocols such as OAuth, OpenID Connect and decentralized identifiers. This workshop focuses on what they call the identity and authorization layers for agents. In practice, that means questions like how an agent proves who it’s acting for and what it’s allowed to do.
How the day works
It’s an unconference, with no set agenda.
Participants propose topics at an opening circle from 9 to 10 a.m., then run four hour-long sessions before a closing circle where groups summarize what they discussed, according to the schedule. The format is called Open Space Technology.
Notes from every session will be collected and published. The organizers have posted a book of proceedings for each of the first two workshops.
An Interop Day runs the day before, Nov. 5, at the same location starting at 10:30 a.m. It overlaps with day three of the Internet Identity Workshop.
The organizers say the event is meant for people implementing and writing protocols for agentic AI. The first workshop, on Oct. 24, 2025, drew about 125 attendees, and the second, on May 1, 2026, drew 82, according to the event’s archive.
The standards on the table
The event page lists a long set of groups working on agent standards, and says attendees come from many of them. At the IETF, the internet’s main standards body, that includes a working group on workload identity for AI agents and a draft on agent authentication and authorization. At the W3C, it includes new community groups on agent identity registries and agent memory, formed in April and May.
The FIDO Alliance, which writes passkey standards, has a working group on letting people securely delegate actions to agents, according to the page. Its payments group covers agent-initiated commerce, including Google’s AP2 and Mastercard’s Verifiable Intent.
Other listed bodies include the OpenID Foundation, the Decentralized Identity Foundation, the Trust Over IP Foundation and the Agentic AI Foundation, which hosts MCP. The page also lists NIST’s AI Agent Standards Initiative and IEEE projects on agent interfaces.
The page names more than a dozen protocols as focal points, among them A2A, MCP, OAuth and GNAP, an authorization protocol. Its suggested reading includes an April survey of identity standards for agents and essays by Doc Searls on keeping agents under individual control.
Sponsors help keep ticket prices low, the organizers say. Several sponsorships, including breakfast and Wi-Fi, are listed as sold, and Mace AI is named as the closing circle sponsor.
Source: Agentic Internet Workshop, AIW organizers, “Agentic Internet Workshop #3”
