Visa, Mastercard and Ant International began a shared Know Your Agent effort on 10 September, and on 10 November the Linux Foundation launched the Agent Name Service as a project, with Cisco, Cloudflare, DigiCert, GoDaddy and Salesforce among its contributors.
When card networks start borrowing identity vocabulary, the problem has officially become expensive. Whether KYA, the registry and the enterprise standards ever line up is the open question.
Sources: TechNode · Linux Foundation
