Further Reading
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For ease of reference, all ANP-related materials are organized by Specifications / Whitepaper / Blogs / Ecosystem.
Specifications
- ANP Getting Started Guide
- did:wba Method Specification
- ANP End-to-End Instant Messaging Protocol Overview
- ANP Profile 1: Core Binding
- ANP Profile 2: Identity and Discovery
- ANP Profile 3: Direct Messaging Base Semantics
- ANP Profile 4: Group Messaging Base Semantics
- ANP Profile 5: Direct End-to-End Encryption
- ANP Profile 6: Group End-to-End Encryption
- ANP Profile 7: Attachments and Object Transfer
- ANP Profile 8: Federation and Cross-Domain
- Meta-Protocol Design Specification
- Agent Description Protocol Specification (Draft)
- Agent Discovery Protocol Specification (Draft)
Whitepaper
Blogs
- What's Different About the Agentic Web
- did:wba - Web-Based Decentralized Identifiers
- Comparison of MCP and ANP: What Kind of Communication Protocol Do Agents Need
- Comparison of did:wba with OpenID Connect and API keys
- Security Principles of did:wba
- Three Technical Approaches to AI-Internet Interaction
- Three Key Issues of Agent Identity: Interoperability, Human-Authorization, and Privacy Protection
- Analysis and Predictions of Future AI Personal Assistant Products and Key Players
- One Prompt, One HTTP Function: Enabling Open-Source Manus to Interact with Other Agents via ANP
- Challenges to MCP from LangGraph Lead and How ANP Addresses Them
- In the Year that the ANP was Born
- Comparison of Agent Communication Protocols
- Anthropic MCP 2025H1 Milestone Analysis
- ANP Presentation at W3C WebAgents CG
- The Birth of the First WebAgent Designed for AI Access
- Agent's Impact on Infrastructure: Challenges to Existing Connection Infrastructure
- Comprehensive Comparison of Google's Latest A2A, ANP, and MCP
- In-depth Comparison of Google A2A and ANP: Finding the Origin of Protocols
- Deep Comparison of MCP, A2A, and ANP Interaction Modes: Differences in Information Organization
- ANP Community First Meeting: A Milestone for the Agentic Web