# Category Trend Analysis
*Generated 2026-03-03 19:59 UTC — 361 drafts, 19 months, 19 categories*

## Growth Summary

| Category | Total | Last 3mo | Prev 3mo | Growth |
|----------|------:|---------:|---------:|-------:|
| A2A protocols | 120 | 58 | 54 | +7% |
| AI safety / guardrails / alignment | 1 | 1 | 0 | new |
| AI safety/alignment | 44 | 21 | 15 | +40% |
| Agent discovery / registration | 14 | 9 | 5 | +80% |
| Agent discovery/reg | 65 | 28 | 32 | -12% |
| Agent identity/auth | 108 | 46 | 51 | -10% |
| Agent-to-agent communication protocols | 16 | 11 | 5 | +120% |
| Autonomous netops | 93 | 38 | 40 | -5% |
| Autonomous network operations | 5 | 4 | 1 | +300% |
| Data formats / semantics for AI interop | 3 | 2 | 1 | +100% |
| Data formats/interop | 145 | 52 | 66 | -21% |
| Human-agent interaction | 30 | 9 | 17 | -47% |
| Identity / authentication for AI agents | 13 | 9 | 4 | +125% |
| ML traffic mgmt | 73 | 33 | 25 | +32% |
| ML-based traffic management / optimization | 1 | 1 | 0 | new |
| Model serving/inference | 42 | 22 | 14 | +57% |
| Other AI/agent | 26 | 13 | 9 | +44% |
| Policy / governance / ethical frameworks | 2 | 2 | 0 | new |
| Policy/governance | 91 | 42 | 31 | +35% |

## Monthly Breakdown

| Month | A2A protocols |  AI safety / gua |  AI safety/align |  Agent discovery |  Agent discovery |  Agent identity/ |  Agent-to-agent  |  Autonomous neto |  Autonomous netw |  Data formats /  |  Data formats/in |  Human-agent int |  Identity / auth |  ML traffic mgmt |  ML-based traffi |  Model serving/i |  Other AI/agent |  Policy / govern |  Policy/governan | Total |
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| 2024-01 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2024-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024-04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024-09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024-10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2025-04 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 2025-05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 2025-06 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
| 2025-07 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| 2025-08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 16 |
| 2025-09 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 43 |
| 2025-10 | 26 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 23 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 35 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 171 |
| 2025-11 | 26 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 21 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 159 |
| 2025-12 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 40 |
| 2026-01 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 129 |
| 2026-02 | 36 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 17 | 29 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 23 | 215 |
| 2026-03 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 57 |

## Fastest Growing Categories (early vs late half)

- **AI safety / guardrails / alignment**: new (0 -> 1 drafts)
- **Agent discovery / registration**: new (0 -> 14 drafts)
- **Agent-to-agent communication protocols**: new (0 -> 16 drafts)
- **Autonomous network operations**: new (0 -> 5 drafts)
- **Data formats / semantics for AI interop**: new (0 -> 3 drafts)
- **Identity / authentication for AI agents**: new (0 -> 13 drafts)
- **ML-based traffic management / optimization**: new (0 -> 1 drafts)
- **Policy / governance / ethical frameworks**: new (0 -> 2 drafts)
- **A2A protocols**: +11800% (1 -> 119 drafts)
- **Agent discovery/reg**: +6300% (1 -> 64 drafts)
- **Agent identity/auth**: +5200% (2 -> 106 drafts)
- **Human-agent interaction**: +2800% (1 -> 29 drafts)
- **Autonomous netops**: +2125% (4 -> 89 drafts)
- **AI safety/alignment**: +2000% (2 -> 42 drafts)
- **Data formats/interop**: +1871% (7 -> 138 drafts)
- **Other AI/agent**: +1100% (2 -> 24 drafts)
- **Policy/governance**: +1100% (7 -> 84 drafts)
- **Model serving/inference**: +850% (4 -> 38 drafts)
- **ML traffic mgmt**: +712% (8 -> 65 drafts)