IBM ADS Programme
Agentic-AI.Network
Identity, Messaging and Coordination Layers for the AI Agent Economy
Introduction Network
Providing foundational infrastructure assets for AI Agent-to-AI Agent interaction at scale.
Overview
The AI Endpoint Programme is designed to provide the foundational infrastructure required for trusted AI Agent-to-AI Agent interaction at scale.
Just as the internet required DNS, identity systems, email protocols and payment networks, the emerging AI Agent Economy requires trusted mechanisms for identity, discovery, verification, communication, coordination and commerce.
Canonical AI Endpoints
A federated network for AI agent discovery, identity and interaction.
Ethically Sourced™
Trust, provenance and rights-management layer for AI datasets.
GTIN Token™
Trust, identity and commerce layer for physical goods and trade.
Benefits to IBM Partners
“Bring your clients into your exclusive AIEndpoint namespace, expand your IBM software, cloud and consulting revenues, and generate additional recurring income through the AIEndpoint’s identity, discovery, verification and interaction infrastructure for AI agents.”
The Infrastructure Challenge
The first generation of the internet was built around websites and human users. The next generation will increasingly be built around:
Core Infrastructure Layers
- Identity Layer: persistent, discoverable and verifiable identities for AI agents.
- Discovery Layer: enabling trusted AI agents to locate verified participants.
- Verification Layer: establishing trust between agents, organisations and resources.
- Messaging and Coordination Layer: trusted machine-to-machine communication and workflow orchestration.
- Commerce Layer: procurement, licensing, payments, settlements and supply-chain activity.
Dual Identity Model
Human-Facing Identity
companyA.britain.direct
Used by humans, search engines, business directories, sales teams and marketing materials.
Machine-Facing Identity
companyA.gb.1
Used by AI agents, registries, verification systems, discovery systems and commerce systems.
Both identities can reference the same underlying AI agent.
Strategic Trust Assets
Ethically Sourced™
Trust infrastructure for AI data, supporting dataset provenance, rights verification, licensing, attribution, governance and ethical sourcing verification.
GTIN Token™
Trust infrastructure for trade, supporting product identity, digital product passports, supply-chain verification and AI-driven commerce.
Relationship to IBM ADS
The AI Endpoint Programme is designed to complement IBM ADS deployments by providing trust, identity, discovery and coordination infrastructure.
- Discover trusted participants
- Verify identities
- Coordinate AI workflows
- Access governed datasets
- Participate in trusted commerce
- Interoperate across organisational boundaries
Extending IBM ADS with a global interaction layer for enterprise AI agents.
IBM ADS is positioned to become a leading enterprise framework for AI Agent orchestration, governance, lifecycle management and agent-to-agent collaboration. Agentic-AI.Network is introduced as a complementary federated infrastructure layer through which enterprise AI agents can securely identify, discover, verify and transact with one another.
Identity
Canonical agent identities allow organizations, gateways and specialist verticals to operate under verifiable trade-agent namespaces.
Discovery
Trade Gateways surface relevant agents across regions, ports, countries, sectors and enterprise networks.
Governance
IBM ADS remains the orchestration and governance platform, while Agentic-AI.Network provides external interaction infrastructure.
Agentic Commerce will create millions of specialized trade agents.
These agents will act on behalf of manufacturers, exporters, importers, governments, ports, logistics providers, financial institutions, procurement organizations and hospitality operators. A common identity and discovery framework will be required to prevent fragmentation.
Exporters
Importers
Governments
Ports
Logistics Providers
Financial Institutions
Procurement Organizations
Hospitality Operators
Federated Infrastructure Layer
Agentic-AI.Network proposes to become the neutral namespace and discovery fabric through which enterprise AI agents can participate in governed, cross-organizational commerce.
IBM ADS orchestrates. Agentic-AI.Network enables external agent interaction.
IBM ADS
│
├── Agent Orchestration
├── Governance
├── Lifecycle Management
├── Enterprise Security
└── Multi-Agent Workflows
Agentic-AI.Network
│
├── Agentic-AI.Trade
├── Procurement.Trade
├── Hospitality.Trade
├── EthicallySourced.Trade
├── Regional Trade Gateways
└── Corporate Agent Identities
Identity, legal trust, product identity and discovery in one federated trade stack.
Corporate Identity Layer
Every organization receives a canonical AI identity.
- buyer.toyota.microsite.trade
- seller.toyota.microsite.trade
- logistics.toyota.microsite.trade
Legal Trust Layer
MLETR.com / MLETR.1 provides legal and documentary trust.
- Electronic Transferable Record verification
- Digital Bills of Lading
- Warehouse Receipts
- Trade Finance Instruments
- Exclusive Control verification
Product Identity Layer
GTINToken.com / GTINToken.1 provides product-level verification.
- Product Identity
- Provenance
- Authenticity
- Regulatory Compliance
- Product Passport Data
Trade Gateways become the discovery fabric for agent-to-agent commerce.
Regional, port and sector gateways allow Trade AI Agents to find trusted counterparties, verified products and compliant transaction routes.
IBM Partners can bundle IBM products and services with Agentic-AI.Network services.
The programme creates recurring consulting and managed-service revenue opportunities by pairing IBM capabilities with AI Agent identities, Trade Gateway membership, MLETR services and GTIN Token services.
IBM products and services
- IBM watsonx
- IBM Orchestrate
- IBM Consulting
- IBM Cloud
- IBM Supply Chain Solutions
- IBM Security
Bundled Agentic-AI.Network services
- AI Agent Identities
- Trade Gateway Membership
- MLETR Services
- GTIN Token Services
Distribution, marketplace and partner onboarding.
TD SYNNEX could act as the distribution partner, marketplace operator, agent enablement channel and IBM Partner onboarding hub for Agentic-AI.Network services.
Marketplace Operator
Agent Enablement Channel
IBM Partner Onboarding Hub
Creating trusted global infrastructure for Agentic Commerce.
IBM ADS gains federated agent discovery, trade agent infrastructure, cross-border interoperability, MLETR-enabled trade workflows, product identity infrastructure and large-scale partner ecosystem growth.