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Standards Landscape

Agent-related work across standards bodies, organised into a navigable map. The weekly digest covers what changed; this map covers how the system is shaped.

Data as of 2026-11-01. IETF states sync live from Datatracker at build time; organisations without a public API (e.g. CCSA) are maintained manually and labelled as such.

1. Organisation boards

2. Cross-SDO domain mapping (core) domains · horizontal

The connecting mechanism: each unit declares the domains it covers, and cross-SDO correspondence is derived automatically rather than hand-maintained.

⚠ Horizontal dimension. It is not the same axis as the "layers" used in each organisation board. Layer counts (IETF 4 / CCSA 5 / ITU-T 4) and domain counts (6) are not meant to match: one layer usually spans several domains, and one domain often spans several layers across organisations. Names such as "Discovery & Addressing" appear on both sides as distinct dimensions, not as the same object.

Cyan = the unit treats agents as a primary line of work (core); grey = supporting. An empty cell means not yet recorded, not that nobody is working on it.

3. Method

  • · State provenance is labelled: IETF comes live from Datatracker at build time; organisations without a public API are marked as manually maintained.
  • · "Updated" means revision publication date, not datatracker metadata activity. Stale = no new revision for 180+ days: an activity signal, not a death certificate.
  • · Units are graded core vs supporting, to filter out keyword-coincidence noise.
  • · "Layers" and "domains" are two different dimensions: layers are each organisation's internal technical stack (vertical, on board pages); domains are cross-SDO comparable topics (horizontal, in the matrix above). The relation is many-to-many, so neither counts nor names need to line up — identical names do not imply the same concept.
  • · CCSA and ITU-T are manually maintained: units plus verifiable work items only. Unit-level details are still being filled in.