About Dillweed®
A standards-oriented namespace and trust infrastructure project for portable agentic systems — focused on how agents discover, identify, trust, and revoke capabilities across organizational and provider boundaries.
The project explores a missing coordination layer beneath agent behavior — a layer concerned not with what an agent does after invocation, but with how it determines what it can find and trust in the first place.
What This Project Is
The Dillweed Namespace Project is a published body of technical and governance work addressing naming authority, authoritative resolution, registry truth, cryptographic attestation, revocation, governance continuity, and observability for portable agentic systems.
It is intended as a contribution to pre-standardisation and standards-facing discussion in areas including trust management, digital identity, cross-domain interoperability, and neutral coordination infrastructure.
The project is independently operated and not affiliated with any platform provider.
. The domain dillweed.com has been under continuous independent single-owner stewardship since 1997 — an operational provenance that satisfies the structural condition required for a neutral naming authority layer. No major platform company can credibly operate a neutral multi-party coordination namespace; any such namespace controlled by a single platform participant would be regarded with justified suspicion by the others.What Problem It Addresses
Most current AI governance and security approaches focus on what happens within a deployment: monitoring agent behavior, enforcing policy, or securing runtime execution. That work is necessary.
Dillweed focuses on a different question: how capabilities are discovered, attested, selected, and revoked before an agent invokes them — especially when multiple organizations, providers, or trust domains are involved.
As agents become persistent, stateful, and cross-domain entities, existing dependencies on hardcoded provider endpoints, proprietary registries, and single-platform identity systems create structural fragility in the trust layer. The underdeveloped infrastructure layer is no longer primarily model capability — it is stable naming authority, authoritative resolution, durable registry truth, and neutral governance continuity.
Agent state can move across runtimes and administrative domains. Trust cannot move unless naming authority and attestation evidence move with it. The Dillweed stack is an architectural proposal for that missing layer.
What Is Published
The site includes a standards-facing overview and a set of linked specifications.
These documents cover the namespace layer, resolver behavior, registry structure, governance framework, operational charter, observability plane, and continuity provisions.
Project Status
The Dillweed Namespace Stack currently exists as published technical specifications, a governance framework, a DNSO operations charter, and Node.js reference implementations in development. All documents are publicly available at dillweed.com.
The immediate objective is dialogue around trust management, governance neutrality, trust tier attestation models, and cross-domain naming authority for portable agent ecosystems. The founding-phase governance structure is explicitly designed to evolve toward multi-stakeholder institutional models as adoption develops.
Contact
For standards, architecture, or partnership inquiries, the Standards Overview provides the most complete introduction to the project's scope and technical approach.
Inquiries and engagement may be directed through dillweed.com.