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Govern 02 · The door Commerce desk Oct 21, 2026

Know Your Agent is still competing schemes, not one standard

Heading into Money20/20, the card networks, Google's AP2 (now at the FIDO Alliance) and an IETF draft each prove an agent's identity and authority a different way, and none has become the standard. Shops opening order entry or catalog APIs to agents should verify agents at one gateway in front of IBM i, so the scheme can change without touching the RPG behind it.

Source: Yahoo Finance (Forkast), Oct 18, 2026 · Know Your Agent: How the Payments Industry Is Building the Trust Layer OAuth and SAML Couldn't ↗Approved by Reggie

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