What the Agentic AI Foundation’s rule changes mean for anyone building on MCP or A2A
There isn't a textbook for setting up an open source foundation to govern a technology that is younger than most of its member companies' product teams.
The AAIF is the Linux Foundation body that hosts the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), and the other open source projects shaping how AI agents connect to tools and to each other. At AGNTCon Europe + MCPCon Europe in September, AAIF co-founder and CTO Manik Surtani gave a keynote on how one of the AAIF's founding assumptions had changed. In a 1:1 interview afterwards, he discussed what the change looks like, and the role itself:
For a lot of us in the organization, it's our first time running a foundation like this. Yes, we have the Linux Foundation behind us, and there's tons of experience from them for sure. But the AAIF itself - it's my first time in a non-profit foundation -...
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