[Use Case] “delegation” of operation by an AI Agent owner (person natural or legal person) to an AI Agent to act on his behalf
fg-tida-use-cases-use-case-delegation-of-operation-by-an-ai-agent-owner-person-natural-or-legal-person-to-an-ai-agent-to-act-on-his-behalf-63
| Type | FG-TIDA document |
|---|---|
| Group | Trust and Identity for Humans and Agentic AI |
| State | Submitted |
| Authors | Not entered |
| Last updated | 2026-10-23 15:11 UTC |
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Abstract
Complete every field. Replace the angle-bracket placeholders. Tick boxes with [x].
1. Identification
Title: “delegation” of operation by an AI Agent owner (person natural or legal person) to an AI Agent to act on his behalf
Submitting organization: IN Groupe
Contact name: Alban FERAUD
Contact email: alban.feraud@ingroupe.com
Sector (tick all that apply; a cross-industry case may tick more than one):
- [ ] Education
- [ ] Displaced persons / humanitarian
- [ ] Health
- [X] Financial services
- [] Telecom
- [ ] Media and publishing
- [ ] Logistics
- [ ] Energy
- [ ] Critical infrastructure
- [X] Smart home / IoT
- [X] Other (specify): any case where a person would delegate an operation to an AI Agent
2. The situation
Describe the functional interaction: who is acting, what they are trying to achieve,
and what happens. The trust and security aspects are drawn out in Sections 3 to 5.
Plain language description (required, 3 sentences max):
Actor (every party involved):
Action:
Decision required (at the moment the agent acts, what does the party on the receiving
end have to decide? Write it as a question, e.g. "May this firm's agent be let into the
house on the homeowner's authority?"):
Problem encountered (why that decision cannot be made today):
Current mitigation:
Residual gap:
3. Actors and context
Taxonomy roles involved
- [ ] Principal — possesses the authority being exercised; source of the mandate
- [ ] Relying party — must decide whether to accept the agent's authority
- [ ] Builder
- [ ] Deployer / Owner
- [ ] Agent instance
- [ ] User — interacts with the agent; may or may not be the principal
- [ ] Infra provider
- [ ] Attestor
- [ ] Other (specify):
Mandates in this case (required)
List each grant of authority. State the legal regime governing each one: the regime
fixes what could be conferred, at what moment standing may change, and with what
continuing effect. A single-regime case is entirely valid. Actor above lists every
party; this table covers only the authority relationships between them.
| Grantor | Grantee | What is conferred | Governing regime |
|---|---|---|---|
Cross-border?
- [ ] Yes — jurisdictions involved:
- [ ] No
Embodied (physical actuation or sensing)?
- [ ] Yes — physical context:
- [ ] No
Agent action type (required; tick all that apply. Where several apply, the most
consequential governs the case)
- [ ] Read-only
- [ ] Consequential (reversible)
- [ ] Irreversible
Crosses organisational boundary? (required)
- [ ] Yes (specify):
- [ ] No
Risk level (required)
- [ ] Low
- [ ] Medium
- [ ] High
4. Theme relevance
Check every theme this situation exercises, mark the single primary theme, and justify
each checked theme against Section 2 above. If your case maps to specific theme
proposals in the themes repository, link them below.
| Theme | Yes | Primary | Justification (required if checked) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamic Identity | [ ] | [ ] | |
| Continuous Trust and Attestation | [ ] | [ ] | |
| Delegation | [ ] | [ ] | |
| Discovery and Cross-Border Trust | [ ] | [ ] | |
| Runtime Enforcement (Control Plane) | [ ] | [ ] | |
| Embodied AI Identity and Trust | [ ] | [ ] |
Related theme proposals:
5. Requirements
One row per requirement. Add rows as needed. Type: Legal / Business / Technical.
Technical requirements are the primary output; include legal or business requirements
where they bear on a technical decision. Criticality: Must / Should / Nice-to-have.
| # | Type (choose one) | Requirement description | Criticality (choose one) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legal / Business / Technical | Must / Should / Nice-to-have | |
| 2 | Legal / Business / Technical | Must / Should / Nice-to-have | |
| 3 | Legal / Business / Technical | Must / Should / Nice-to-have | |
| 4 | Legal / Business / Technical | Must / Should / Nice-to-have | |
| 5 | Legal / Business / Technical | Must / Should / Nice-to-have |
6. Assessment criteria
Success criteria:
Measurable metric:
7. Duplication check
Required under ITU-T Recommendation A.7 clause 7: the Focus Group does not duplicate work underway in ITU-T study groups or other bodies.
Existing standards or SDOs (which existing work touches this case):
Overlap notes (why the work named above does not already solve this):
8. Maturity
Pilot status
- [ ] Hypothetical
- [ ] Pilot in progress
- [ ] Deployed in production
Reference implementation:
9. IP and confidentiality
Confidentiality level
- [ ] Public
- [ ] FG-internal only
- [ ] Redact before publication
IP notes (optional):
10. Assets
Link to assets:
- [ ] Dataset
- [ ] Code
- [ ] Protocol
- [ ] Other:
IP notes (optional):
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