Agentic Control Plane Working Group

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Defining the governance, identity, policy and audit for AI agents operating in enterprise infrastructure.

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Agentic Control Plane Working Group

What We’re Working On

Nick Lippis

Co-Founder and Co-Chairman

Acting Chairperson

Developing the Agentic Control Plane Reference Architecture

Agent Identity Specification

How AI agents are assigned persistent, cryptographic, auditable identities in enterprise environments.

Policy & Permissions Framework

Least-privilege, capability-scoped authorization that defines what an agent can do, when, and in which context.

Execution Guardrails

Runtime controls that enforce policy at execution time — not just at provisioning.

Audit & Accountability Requirements

Signed action trails that satisfy compliance, regulatory, and incident response requirements

Governance Model

The operational model for how enterprises manage, update, and revoke agent permissions at machine scale.

To hear more about this Working Group listen to the Working Group Launch Discussion moderated by Nick Lippis

Why Join the Agentic Control Plane Working Group?

This Working Group will bring together enterprise IT leaders, solution providers, and cloud-scale architects to define the Agentic Control Plane specification.

The primary goal of this Working Group is to deliver a vendor-neutral, ONUG board-validated specification that becomes the enterprise standard. Delivering this specication will require work defining the enterprise requirements for an Agentic Control Plane including: the identity, policy, execution, and audit capabilities that any trusted agentic system must implement before it can operate in production at Global 2000 scale.

Who Should Join?

A network or cloud architect facing complexity from AI workloads,
A vendor building automation, observability, or orchestration tools, or
An enterprise leader looking to modernize operations

Listen to the Agentic Control Plane Working Group Launch Call

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