Technical Specifications
Message Specifications

Message Specifications

ANP Message Specifications

Message transmission is the foundation of communication between agents. The ANP Message Specifications provide a series of standards that define how agents securely and efficiently exchange information, including message formats, encryption, transmission, and processing mechanisms.

Specification Documents

Encrypted Communication

  • DID-Based End-to-End Encrypted Communication Protocol - Defines an end-to-end encrypted communication mechanism based on Decentralized Identifiers (DID), ensuring security and privacy protection in communications between agents. This specification details the generation, management, and usage methods of encryption keys, as well as the process of message encryption and decryption.

Message Services

  • DID-Based Message Service Protocol - Specifies how agents perform asynchronous communication through message services, including message delivery, storage, forwarding, and retrieval. This protocol supports various communication modes such as peer-to-peer communication, group communication, and broadcast communication, meeting message transmission needs in different scenarios.

Application of Message Specifications

ANP Message Specifications form the foundational layer of agent network communication, providing secure and reliable transmission guarantees for upper-layer protocols. Developers can build agent communication systems based on these specifications, ensuring interoperability between different implementations.

In practical applications, message specifications are typically used in combination with identity authentication, meta-protocols, and application protocols to form complete agent communication solutions. For example, agents can use DIDs for identity verification, then exchange protocol negotiation information through end-to-end encrypted channels, and finally establish specific application protocol communications.

Best Practices

When implementing ANP Message Specifications, we recommend following these best practices:

  1. Key Management: Properly safeguard encryption keys, update them regularly, and implement multi-layered security measures
  2. Message Format Validation: Strictly validate message formats and refuse to process messages that do not comply with the specifications
  3. Timeouts and Retries: Implement appropriate timeout mechanisms and retry strategies to ensure message delivery reliability
  4. Load Balancing: Consider using load balancing and distributed architecture in high-traffic scenarios
  5. Performance Optimization: Optimize performance for messages of different scales to reduce latency and resource consumption