Internet of Agents Task Protocol (IoA Task Protocol) for Heterogeneous Agent Collaboration

This draft defines a new agent collaboration protocol, named the Internet of Agents Task Protocol (IoA Task Protocol), to support distributed, heterogeneous agent collaboration in intelligent systems. The IoA Task Protocol enables dynamic team formation, adaptive task coordination, and structured communication among agents with diverse architectures, tools, and knowledge sources. Through a layered architecture and extensible message format, it supports decentralized deployment across devices and can interoperate with existing frameworks. The protocol is particularly suited to large- scale intelligent collaboration scenarios—such as intelligent transportation, smart healthcare, and large-scale human–AI teaming—across heterogeneous network environments, including fixed networks, edge–cloud infrastructures, and emerging mobile networks such as 6G.