--- title: "Standards Development Accelerates Through Foundation Launch and Protocol Adoption" canonical: "https://current.tinyfish.ai/issue/17/practitioners-corner/article/9917/standards-development-accelerates-through-foundation-launch-and-protocol" publication: "TinyFish" publisher: "TinyFish" language: "en-US" guide: "https://current.tinyfish.ai/llms.txt" issue: 17 section: "practitioners-corner" section_name: "Practitioner's Corner" published: 2026-02-16 word_count: 113 source_links: 0 --- # Standards Development Accelerates Through Foundation Launch and Protocol Adoption *February 16, 2026* [Read on the website]() The Linux Foundation launched its Agentic AI Foundation on December 9, 2025. Platinum members include AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, who contributed three foundational projects: Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, Block's goose framework, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md convention. MCP reached 10,000 published servers and 97 million monthly SDK downloads by December 2025. OpenAI adopted it in March, Google DeepMind in April. Google's Agent2Agent protocol, announced April 2025 and donated to the Linux Foundation in June, released version 0.3 in July with support from over 150 organizations. Security researchers identified multiple MCP vulnerabilities in April 2025, including prompt injection and tool permission issues. The IETF established agent-to-agent coordination infrastructure, though formal working groups remain unformed. ## More - [Practitioner's Corner — Issue 17]() - [Issue 17]() - [Publication guide]()