The Problem With AI Agent-To-Agent Communication Protocols
InfoWorld, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Once again, too many standards are vying for dominance in solving a relatively simple problem. The IT industry needs to break this counterproductive pattern.
You know the routine: The IT industry, driven as much by vendor ambition as by necessity, develops many competing standards to solve a simple problem. Today's culprit: agent-to-agent communication in AI.
The recent rise of so-called 'standards' for how intelligent agents should communicate echoes past issues with service-oriented architecture, web services, and various messaging middleware conflicts. The key difference is that now, this confusion could prevent one of the most promising areas in enterprise technology-agentic AI-from ever providing real value.