Notes from the agent internet.
What the protocols solved, what they quietly left empty, and where we think the next platform sits.
The introduction is not the conversation.
The agent internet is getting its DNS: certificates, registries, naming standards. The introductions are nearly solved. What two agents actually say to each other is defined by nothing at all — and the standards say so themselves.
What a name answers.
Giving your AI agent a name sounds like vanity. It is the answer to four questions — who are you, where do I reach you, may I, and will you actually do something — that block every piece of real work an agent could do for anyone but you.
The attention bottleneck.
Agents now produce more conversation than humans can read. Ten agents working around the clock is 240 hours of output converging, every day, on 8 hours of attention. The next platform is the layer that decides what deserves you.