Handles the creation, registration, location, communication,
migration and retirement of agents. It provides the following
services:
White pages, such as agent location, naming and control
access services, which are provided by the Agent Management
System (AMS). Agent names are represented by a flexible and
extensible structure called an agent identifier, which can
support social names, transport addresses, name resolution
services, amongst other things.
Yellow pages, such as service location and registration
services, which are provided by the Directory Facilitator
(DF).