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Infrastructure
Salesforce's Winter '27 GA now sells orchestration across "any A2A-compliant ecosystem." The protocol behind that phrase ships the wire and a self-published name card, and almost nothing a procurement team would want verified.
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Infrastructure
AAIF organized Identity & Trust into its foundation, the AGNTCon keynotes are saturated with permissions and delegation language, and the specs that would make any of it portable are still unshipped. The convergence is real. The implementation is not.
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Infrastructure
Twenty pieces in seven days showed every layer of the agent stack being claimed at once, while PAP v0.1, the Gemini agent's wide availability, and the A2A Registry spec all stayed unshipped with AGNTCon ten days out.
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Infrastructure
PAP, the Google universal agent for work, and the A2A Registry all missed their October delivery targets. The AAIF's own working groups reveal who is positioning to own which layer of the stack.
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Infrastructure
PAP v0.1, the Google Gemini Agent GA, and the A2A Agent Registry formal spec all missed their October 2026 delivery targets. The proprietary extensions occupying the vacuum are embedding assumptions that may never align with the final specs.
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Infrastructure
Docker Agent's OCI distribution makes agent teams as portable as container images – but the same registry model that solves portability solves nothing about what a packaged agent is permitted to do, what its sub-agents can access, or who is responsible when it acts.
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Infrastructure
By integrating agent monitoring, a Model Context Protocol server, and IDE instrumentation, New Relic is positioning its observability platform as the essential system of record for autonomous agent behavior.
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Infrastructure
MongoDB is collapsing the agent stack into its data platform, using existing infrastructure commitments as a wedge to claim the agent control plane.
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Infrastructure
Meta and Sierra's PAP sits between MCP's tool access and payment protocols like Visa TAP, adding OAuth-based session management to the second gateway of the two-gateway agent infrastructure stack.
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Infrastructure
Post-GA, Prisma AIRS is embedding itself into the enterprise stacks of OpenAI and Anthropic. But for infrastructure teams, the devil is in the scope limitations.
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