Agent security today is inherited from the connection. N-AALP makes the message itself carry identity, authorization, approval and audit, verifiable offline, on any transport.
Your agent just deleted a production table. The audit log says the request was approved.
Now prove it. Not "show me the log line" - prove it, to someone who does not trust your log, your gateway, or your database. Which key approved it? Were those the exact arguments that were approved, or did something rewrite them after approval? Was that approval already used once? If your answer to any of those starts with "well, our gateway checks that," then the proof lives in your infrastructure, not in the message. Replay the message somewhere else and the proof is gone.
This is the gap I have been working on. It has a name worth stating plainly: agent security today is inherited from the connection. TLS tells you the tunnel was private. mTLS tells you which service opened it. A bearer token tells you someone had a credential. None of that survives the message being written to a queue, forwarded by a relay, logged, replayed, or handed to a second agent. The moment a message leaves the connection it arrived on, it is just bytes with no provable origin.
