About Passport Alliance

The open standards initiative and governing body behind APIS v2.0.

Our Mission

Passport Alliance creates and maintains open standards for AI agent identity, authorization, trust-tier signaling, and accountability. Its current canonical standard is APIS v2.0, published May 4, 2026.

Our work is driven by the recognition that current identity standards were designed for human users and conventional services. Autonomous agents require a framework for principal authority, mandates, delegates, Machine Passports, Agent Passports, signed actions, and rapid revocation.

Stewardship

Passport Alliance was created by Cory Gibson, Founder, CEO, and CTO of AetherPro Technologies.

Cory created the early Passport work and Legal-Based Access Control (LBAC) framework that informed APIS. Passport Alliance now presents APIS v2.0 as a standards-oriented trust framework for broader issuer, developer, and verifier participation.

What We Do

Develop Open Standards

Create and maintain APIS, an open standard for Agent Passport issuance, realm-scoped DIDs, mandates, hardware trust anchors, and verification.

Provide Reference Implementation

Develop and maintain Passport, an open-source implementation demonstrating how to build systems conforming to APIS.

Build Ecosystem

Foster an ecosystem of issuers, developers, and verifiers working together to establish agent identity as critical infrastructure.

Govern Responsibly

Maintain transparent governance that ensures the standard remains open, secure, and responsive to stakeholder needs.

Positioning

The Passport Alliance operates at the intersection of standards bodies and infrastructure providers. We are:

  • Standards-focused: We develop open specifications, not proprietary products
  • Implementation-agnostic: Any organization can build APIS-compatible systems
  • Community-driven: Our governance includes diverse stakeholder representation
  • Security-conscious: We prioritize security and privacy in every design decision

Roadmap

APIS v2.0 is the current canonical publication. Our current focus:

APIS v2.0 Publication

Canonical specification published with DOI and v1.0 supersession

Published May 4, 2026

Issuer and Verifier Adoption

Realm Issuer onboarding, SDK development, and conformance documentation

Compliance Alignment

Security audits, CMMC Level 2 / NIST SP 800-171 alignment, and interoperability testing

Phase 4: Industry Adoption

Broad deployment across enterprise and public-sector use cases