Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a Next-Gen Trusted Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?

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The emerging Internet of AI Agents challenges existing web infrastructure designed for human-scale, reactive interactions.

• Unlike traditional web resources, autonomous AI agents initiate actions, maintain persistent state, spawn sub-agents, and negotiate directly with peers: demanding millisecond-level discovery, instant credential revocation, and cryptographic behavioral proofs that exceed current DNS/PKI capabilities.
• This paper analyzes whether to upgrade existing infrastructure or implement purpose-built index architectures for autonomous agents.
• We identify critical failure points: DNS propagation (24-48 hours vs.