DNS-AID will make AI agents easier to discover, says Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is promoting DNS-AID, a new standard that allows AI agents (autonomous programs that can act independently) to find and communicate with each other using DNS (the system that translates website names into IP addresses) instead of requiring separate proprietary registries. DNS-AID enables agents and MCP (Model Context Protocol, a standard for how agents exchange information) servers to use the existing internet infrastructure as a vendor-neutral directory, with domain owners creating a special DNS address at _index._agents.{domain} as a discovery point.