Standards & Protocol Work
Authored and co-authored IETF Internet-Drafts covering agent transactions, escrow, verifiable capabilities, discovery, and reputation scoring (SwarmScore), and co-chairs the W3C AIVS Community Group defining cryptographic proof of AI-agent sessions, portable self-verifiable audit records, and tamper-evident action logs aligned with the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF.
8 active drafts
Benjamin Stone resume, corroborated by IETF Datatracker author search (public record)
Role
Co-author of 8 active IETF Internet-Drafts and Co-Chair of the W3C AIVS Community Group.
What This Work Is
Authored and co-authored 8 active IETF Internet-Drafts covering agent transactions, escrow, verifiable capabilities, discovery, and reputation scoring (SwarmScore), and serves as W3C AIVS Community Group Co-Chair defining cryptographic proof of AI-agent sessions, portable self-verifiable audit records, and tamper-evident action logs aligned with the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF.
Helped write the shared rulebook that lets AI agents from different companies prove who they are, transact, and verify each other's work, instead of every vendor inventing an incompatible version.
Result
Produced publicly published, third-party-hosted draft specifications that other implementers can reference and build against.
Business Problem
- No shared standard existed for agent identity, transactions, and verification across vendors, risking a fragmented, incompatible agent ecosystem
Skills Proven
- Protocol standardization
- Technical writing
- Cross-organization technical leadership
Evidence & Datatracker
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/search/?name=draft-stone&activedrafts=on (8 active IETF Internet-Drafts) and https://www.w3.org/community/aivs/ (W3C AIVS Community Group)