The Agentic AI "Standards" Race Is On

This IDC Perspective examines some of the emerging agentic AI integration protocols."Individual AI agents have value in the enterprise, but agentic AI has the potential to unleash transformative benefits to organizations," said Nancy Gohring, senior research director, AI at IDC. "However, without techniques that ease the overhead currently required to enable agent-to-agent interaction, progress will be slow. A number of protocols are emerging to solve this challenge. Organizations should plan strategically so that they can realize the benefits of agentic AI now, even as the variety of protocols evolve and, in some cases, compete for industry support."