Innovation Labs, a division of Identity Digital focused on building the accountability anchor for AI agents, today announced the formation of its Advisory Council, bringing 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.
Innovation Labs forms Advisory Council for AI agent accountability framework.
DNSid establishes persistent, globally resolvable identity for AI agents.
Council includes David Conrad (former ICANN CTO), Paul Sagan (ex-Akamai CEO), Teresa Shea (ex-NSA), Corey Thomas (Rapid7), and Charlie Ryan.
DNSid binds each agent to verifiable ownership across platforms and environments.
Accountability record persists regardless of system modification or transfer.
Addresses need for persistent coordination layer as agents become more autonomous.
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. The Council brings 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 Council members bring deep expertise in global DNS coordination, national security, cybersecurity, international finance, venture capital, regulation, and enterprise-scale infrastructure.
The Advisory Council includes David Conrad, former CTO of ICANN, founder and first Director General of APNIC; 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 Corey Thomas, Executive Chair of Rapid7 and board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
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. Today, 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.
Paul Sagan, former CEO of Akamai and member of the Innovation Labs Advisory Council, stated: "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. 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."
About Innovation Labs
Innovation Labs is a division of Identity Digital focused on building the accountability anchor for AI agents. As autonomous systems become more interoperable and capable, they introduce risks that existing frameworks were not designed to manage, starting with the need for a consistent way to verify ownership across organizational boundaries. Innovation Labs combines Identity Digital's DNS expertise with blockchain to establish a global coordination layer for AI system identity.
About Identity Digital
Identity Digital Inc. simplifies and connects the online world with domain names and related technologies to empower people to build, market, and own their digital identities. With the world's largest portfolio of TLDs, including .llc, .pro, .world, .fyi, and .studio, Identity Digital supports over 34 million domains on its registry services platform.
