# Discovery of Agents With Names (DAWN)

Clients generally need to discover information about the AI systems and resources they want to use.  For this interaction to work, they need to discover how to contact them and what resources they offer.

The focus of DAWN is on how a client can discover public properties of AI resource specific to facilitate subsequent interactions such as selection, invocation, or communication. DAWN focuses on discovery only and does not include open-ended search, semantic matchmaking, ranking, or selection of an agent based on capabilities or user intent.

Note that discovery may be an iterative process, and may utilize referrals, direct transfer, delegation, or indirection.

To support these goals, the working group will specify an interoperable and generic discovery mechanism that builds on existing protocols and tools, benefits from established trust models, supports proven delegation and federation architectures, and allows organizations to have independently published discovery information.  The WG will also specify the minimum public discovery information (e.g., type, reachability information, communication protocol, services). 

## Scope 

Discovery in the DAWN context is limited to a client requesting, "Find me an agent resource to interact with," within different diameters: within the layer-2 network, within an organization, or between cooperating organizations with trust relationships over the public Internet. 

Where possible, any solutions created by this WG will be built in a modular way using existing IETF protocols that provide support for any needed communication, authentication, and privacy. The WG will consider mDNS and DNS as mechanisms upon which to build a discovery protocol.

The WG work items will provide integrity of all the discovery information exchanged between the DAWN parties except on the local layer-2 network where the layer-2 network is assumed to be secure.

Although initially focused on discovery of AI agents and their capabilities, the WG should strive to produce results that are general and reusable within other discovery contexts if possible.

## Out of Scope

Specifically out of scope for the DAWN WG during its initial phase are:

- Exchange of capability information beyond the minimum discovery information as specified in the requirements section of the Architecture document.
- All communication beyond the initial discovery process.
- AI resource indexing across the wider Internet.
- Identity management of AI agents, tools, and skills.
- Trust management and trust evaluation methods beyond secure content exchange between DAWN parties.

Future charter for DAWN or other WGs may take on these tasks.

## Work Items

The DAWN working group will work on the following deliverables:

- Use Cases and Applicability: A document describing broad DAWN use case categories. (May be published as an Informational RFC)

- Discovery Architecture: One or more documents (possibly one per diameter), including terminology, deployment models, requirements (including the definition of the minimum set of required information about the AI resource and communication), and the resulting DAWN architecture. (To be published as Informational RFC(s), but maybe held until the Protocol work is considered stable).

- Protocol: One or more specifications describing the implementations of the Discovery Architecture(s) (To be published as Standards Track document(s)).

## Coordination with Other Working Groups and Organizations

The DAWN working group will coordinate with WIMSE and OAUTH WG as well as other WGs related to DNS, discovery, identities, or AI. It will also coordinate with external standards bodies as necessary.