I'm quite sure there's a lot more complexity to this than the article lets on, but at the core is a serious problem: how do we know that agents represent the people they say they're representing? This is an extension of the identity problem in general, which is itself not solved (consider, for example, the ifficulty of providing age verification in a decentralized network). What's proposed here is called Model Context Protocol - Identity (MCP-I): an extension to MCP that according to this article "adds a complete identity and delegation layer for AI agents." The mechanism relies on a third party verifier, such as the company the authors represent, Vouched. In this article, MCP-I is placed nto the hands of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) as an open protocol. You can find "the full v1 spec found at the MCP-I documentation page."
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