predictably, after IoT ("Internet of Things") now there is IoA (Internet of AI Agents)
for "enterprise/cloud grade" AI on internet
The AGNTCY is where we are building the Internet of Agents to be: A diverse, collaborative space to innovate, develop, and maintain software components and services for agentic workflows and multi-agent software.
The AGNTCY (pronounced “agency”), aka Internet of Agents Collective, or the Collective, is the collective of contributors and maintainers building the Internet of Agents (IoA): an open, interoperable, internet for agent-to-agent collaboration.
While very elaborate, and potentially useful, it is also "enterprise-complex": unlikely for mass-adoption.
Reminds me of HP e-speak from 25 years ago: good technology, no adoption.
HP talks up E-speak technology - CNET
Lessons from E-speak (HP Labs) PDF
Rajiv Gupta (technocrat) - Wikipedia
Building the Internet of Agents with Vijoy Pandey | The TWIML AI Podcast
VP and general manager at Outshift by Cisco
foundational challenge for the enterprise: how do we make specialized agents from different vendors collaborate effectively?
As companies like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft all develop their own agentic systems, integrating them creates a complex, probabilistic, and noisy environment, a stark contrast to the deterministic APIs of the past.
Cisco's vision for an "Internet of Agents," a platform to manage this new reality, and its open-source implementation, AGNTCY.
four phases of agent collaboration—discovery, composition, deployment, and evaluation
dive deep into the communication stack, from syntactic protocols like A2A, ACP, and MCP
to the deeper semantic challenges of creating a shared understanding between agents.
SLIM (Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging), a novel transport layer designed to make agent-to-agent communication quantum-safe, real-time, and efficient for multi-modal workloads.
AGNTCY’s Agent Connect Protocol (ACP) and MCP are complementary protocols:
ACP enables autonomous agents to collaborate and share resources in a distributed system while
MCP enriches individual AI models with external context to enhance their decision-making and response generation