CLAIM-2026-08-19-01
On 17 August 2026 Google's Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) became a hosted project of the Agentic AI Foundation, placing it under the same neutral governance as the Model Context Protocol.
Why it matters
The two protocols an EU team is most likely to have in production now share a governing board and a technical committee. That makes the foundation the natural place to look for compliance-shaped features — and the wrong place to wait.
Sources
- agenticaifo2026agentic
- axios2026exclusive
- techzineglo2026google