What Google's A2A joining the Agentic AI Foundation means for enterprise agent architecture
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings build a supercomputer to work out the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, wait seven and a half million years, and get 42 - at which point they uncomfortably realize that they never quite pinned down the Question. Enterprise architecture has been running an eerily similar experiment on itself during 2026. The computers may be faster and the wait is shorter, but it still involves a great deal of expensive machinery, an enormous quantity of tokens, and a question that somehow is always slightly under-specified. It usually gets phrased as "what's the ROI on our agentic AI?" - which, as any architect will tell you after their second coffee, is really several questions in a trenchcoat.
Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), has a coherent answer to a well-specified version of that...
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