19-06-2026 17:56 via infodocket.com

Standards: Say Hello to the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification

From PC World:That chaotic, 1995-era state of the web is similar to where we are now with the “agentic” web. Just like users struggled to find URLs back in those days, so do AI agents struggle to find the tools they need to actually get things done online. When you ask an AI agent to book you a dinner reservation and it can’t, that’s a symptom of an agent that can find the right tool for the job.
That brings us to a new standard called Agentic Resource Discovery, or
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