http://zeroasterisk.com/tags/aaif/Recent content in aaif on Alan Blount | Member of Technical Staff / TPM at GoogleHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://zeroasterisk.com/2026/08/where-a2a-fits-in-the-open-agent-ecosystem/Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://zeroasterisk.com/2026/08/where-a2a-fits-in-the-open-agent-ecosystem/Where A2A Fits in the Open Agent Ecosystem Co-authored with Angie Jones on the Agentic AI Foundation blog, August 20, 2026 A2A defines how one independent agent works with another: negotiating scope, keeping a task going over time, asking for more input, and streaming intermediate updates, while the remote agent decides how to do the work behind its endpoint. Commerce is a concrete example. UCP defines an A2A binding for checkout, and AP2 carries verifiable payment authorization inside the same interaction.