Tag: protocols
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Six Protocols Walk Into a Bar
UCP, ACP, AP2, A2A, MCP, Retail-MCP — six standards fighting to govern agentic commerce. Will cuts through the noise: what each one does, which overlap, wh
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The Protocol War Is Already Over — The Distribution Won
The Siri/Gemini integration means the AI agent in your iPhone is essentially guaranteed to use UCP. The protocol that wins isn’t the best one, it’s the one
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UCP vs. ACP: I Don’t Care Which Protocol Wins, and Neither Should You
Protocol tribalism between UCP and ACP is a developer sport. The contractor doesn’t care if the homeowner found them on Google or ChatGPT. Stop following t
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Agentic Commerce Adoption Grows as Standards Emerge
Agentic commerce—autonomous AI agents executing transactions via APIs without human intervention—is accelerating adoption across enterprise platforms including Shopify, Amazon Business, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce, with standards emerging from the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) through OpenAPI 3.1 and JSON-LD protocols. According to 2024 Gartner and Forrester research, agentic deployments…