Will Agent Resource Registries ever have their moment, the way AI gateways did?

ARD (Agentic Resource Discovery) is an open discovery protocol that lets an AI client ask what resources are available for a task and receive matching entries from a discovery service, operating entirely before invocation so the resource is then called through its own native mechanism. It is not an execution runtime or a central catalog: many discovery services are expected, each with its own trust, ranking and access policies, and it is being developed by a working group with participants from Microsoft, Google, Hugging Face and GoDaddy. ARD is licensed under Apache License 2.0 and welcomes community contributions.