Authentication Answers the Actor Question Modern identity systems can give an AI agent a distinct principal, credential, or workload identity. That is foundational because the receiving service must know which software actor is presenting a request. The emerging standards discussion goes further. A July 2026 IETF Internet-Draft proposes using existing workload-identity and OAuth building blocks for both authentication and authorization of AI agent interactions. [1] The draft is not a final standard, but its scope reflects the direction of the problem: identity and authorization must be designed together. Authorization Must Survive Delegation The hardest agent workflows ar…
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