Standards
W3C AI Agent Memory Interoperability CG
The single most on-point non-vendor memory body; sits one layer above the wire protocol; no normative home yet — WATCH gap.
Specification
What it is
The single most on-point non-vendor memory body; sits one layer above the wire protocol; no normative home yet — WATCH gap.
At a glance
- Business model
- Specification
- Governing body
- W3C Community Group (charter v1.0 adopted 2026-06-19; ~39 participants; chair Russell Jackson)
- Maturity
- CG Reports only — NOT W3C Recommendations; normatively references draft-saihm-memory-protocol
- What it says about memory
- Portable memory-cell format, post-quantum identity, capability-scoped sharing with revocation, tamper-evident audit, cryptographic erasure; crosswalks to NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001/27001, EU AI Act, MCP.
- Artifacts
- w3.org/community/ai-agent-memory-interop; public-ai-agent-memory-interop@w3.org