Innovation Labs by Identity Digital Announce Initiative to Help Shape Accountability Framework for AI Agents
Innovation Labs, a division of Identity Digital focused on building the accountability anchor for AI agents, announced the formation of its Advisory Council that will bring together leaders who helped build, scale, and secure the internet’s core infrastructure at a moment when those same coordination challenges are emerging for autonomous AI systems.
AI agents are already making decisions, accessing systems, and conducting transactions across organizations and platforms. Yet, there is still no universal way to identify who is accountable for them. As agents move across environments, platforms, and organizations, there is no persistent accountability layer that maintains a durable link between an agent and its owner, according to Innovation Labs.
DNSid establishes a durable, globally resolvable identity for AI agents, effectively a birth certificate that binds each agent to verifiable ownership across platforms and environments. This accountability record persists regardless of how a system is modified, deployed, or transferred.
AI systems may have different identities across cloud, infrastructure, and application environments, but no persistent accountability record that survives across platforms or organizational boundaries.
DNSid introduces this missing coordination layer, allowing organizations to verify ownership and establish accountability without requiring pre-negotiated trust relationships.
The same conditions that required shared standards to scale the internet are now emerging again for AI agents. Innovation Labs and its Advisory Council are focused on helping ensure that trust and accountability can scale alongside them.
The Council will bring together leaders who are helping shape and secure the modern internet around a shared concern: The infrastructure required to determine accountability for AI agents is not keeping pace with their deployment.
The Advisory Council includes:
- David Conrad, former CTO of ICANN, founder and first Director General of APNIC, and a consultant on Internet technologies, naming, and addressing.
- Charlie Ryan, senior fellow at Harvard’s Davis Center, international financier, and venture capitalist.
- Paul Sagan, former CEO of Akamai and Catalyst advisor at General Catalyst.
- Teresa Shea, former director of signals intelligence at the NSA and a leader in cybersecurity and national intelligence.
- Corey Thomas, executive chair of Rapid7 and board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Collectively, the group brings deep expertise in global DNS coordination, national security, cybersecurity, international finance, venture capital, regulation, and enterprise-scale infrastructure.
Their mandate is to guide Innovation Labs as it works to establish a similar foundation for an agentic internet, the company said.
“Throughout the history of the internet, periods of rapid innovation have ultimately depended on common infrastructure standards that allow independent players to establish trust at scale,” said Sagan. “As AI agents become more autonomous and interconnected, the challenge is no longer simply making them more capable. It is ensuring the underlying foundations for trust, accountability, and coordination evolve alongside them.”
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