Trust infrastructure for the Internet of Agents
W4GEO is an open protocol for verifiable identity, authority, evidence, risk, governance and audit across humans, organizations and autonomous agents.
1.Why W4GEO
An open trust and verifiable context protocol for the Internet of Agents.
The Web has protocols for documents, communication, identity and payments. W4GEO defines a verifiable trust, authority and context layer for humans, organizations and autonomous agents.
W4GEO lets systems and agents discover:
2.The Problem
Autonomous agents can already:
Autonomous agents already do all of this today. But today's protocols only solve isolated parts of the problem — none of them unify identity, ownership, authority, delegation, context, evidence, reputation, risk, policy, revocation, consensus, audit and governance into a single verifiable layer.
3.The W4GEO Proposal
W4GEO does not replace existing identity, authorization, agent communication or credential standards. It connects them into a shared trust and decision context.
Planned compatibility and complementarity with:
Planned technical interoperability — no partnership or official integration is claimed with any organization or standard listed above.
4.Complete Architecture — 16 Layers
Every layer below officially belongs to the W4GEO architecture — a layer not being implemented yet does not mean it is out of scope.
Discovery Layer
Standardized discovery of entities, agents, keys, services, endpoints, capabilities and W4GEO documents.
The base document and domain resolution are already in production; agent, evidence, revocation and policy endpoints do not exist yet.
View in the Roadmap →Cryptographic Identity Layer
Verifiable cryptographic identity and proof of control.
Ed25519 signing and verification with canonicalization already work in production; key rotation, multiple methods and replay protection are still in specification.
View in the Roadmap →Domain Intelligence Layer
Validate and contextualize domains and digital assets.
Hidden or redacted data does not mean fraud. It only means the identity could not be corroborated by that source.
View in the Roadmap →Entity and Business Verification Layer
Represent and verify people, companies, organizations, governments, institutions, communities, creators, projects, services and digital assets.
No global business-verification database exists yet.
View in the Roadmap →Agent Identity Layer
Bind an autonomous agent to the entity that operates it.
Delegation and Capability Layer
Define who authorized an agent and what it is allowed to do.
Delegation MUST NOT expand authority. Every sub-delegation must have authority equal to or lower than the previous delegation.
View in the Roadmap →Revocation and Recovery Layer
Interrupt and safely recover trust.
Architectural reference: /.well-known/w4geo-revocations.json. This endpoint is not operational yet.
View in the Roadmap →Evidence and Proof Registry
Register facts, proofs, validations and events — not arbitrary opinions.
Trust and Reputation Layer
Organize historical and contextual trust signals.
Reputation is not absolute truth and should not be treated as a single universal score.
View in the Roadmap →Risk Intelligence Layer
Calculate contextual risk.
The protocol standardizes signals, inputs, justifications and auditable results, without forcing every organization to use the same risk model.
View in the Roadmap →Policy and Decision Context Layer
Combine verifiable context and policy into a decision.
Identity + Authority + Delegation + Evidence + Reputation + Risk + Policy = Decision Context. Decisions can result in: allow, deny, conditional, require_more_evidence, require_human_review, suspend, quarantine.
View in the Roadmap →Semantic Quorum Layer
Resolve divergence between sources, validators, policies and interpretations.
Semantic Quorum does not require blockchain — the architecture allows different consensus and validation mechanisms.
View in the Roadmap →Federation Layer
Interoperability between organizations, validators, jurisdictions and W4GEO networks.
Governance and Compliance Layer
Rules for evolution, participation and accountability.
Audit and Accountability Layer
Reconstruct decisions and actions.
Global Network Layer
Future distributed operation of the ecosystem.
5.Ecosystem Entities
An organization can play more than one role, as long as conflicts of interest are declared and handled.
6.The Complete Trust Cycle
7.Use Cases
8.Privacy & Security
Public documents must not contain unnecessary personal data.
9.Openness & Neutrality
License: to be defined. No specific license has been set in the repository yet.
10.What Exists Today
11.Protocol Documents
12.Participation
For developers, researchers, companies, governments, security professionals, standards contributors, identity providers, agent platform builders, validators and auditors:
13.FAQ
W4GEO is an open protocol for verifiable identity, authority, delegation, evidence, risk, governance and audit between humans, organizations and autonomous agents.