Organisations

Bodies that author or steward the standards, frameworks and policy.

• Anthropic — Introduced MCP (Nov 2024).
• OpenAI — Function calling, Structured Outputs, Agents SDK & Responses API.
• Google — Launched A2A; TensorFlow Federated; keyboard FL.
• Linux Foundation — Hosts A2A, OpenAPI Initiative, CNCF, LF AI & Data.
• CNCF — Stewards OPA, OpenTelemetry; confidential-computing community.
• OpenAPI Initiative — Maintains OpenAPI and Arazzo.
• W3C — Standards body for GraphQL-era web specs and PROV.
• IETF / RFC Editor — Publishes the OAuth, DPoP, mTLS and HTTP-signature RFCs.
• Government Digital Service (GDS) — Author of the cross-government API standards.
• DSIT — Department behind the Blueprint and AI Management Essentials.
• ICO — UK regulator; AI and data-protection guidance.
• NCSC — Guidelines for secure AI system development.
• NVIDIA — Authors NVIDIA FLARE.
• Flower Labs — Maintains the Flower federated AI framework.
• OpenMined — Open-source privacy-preserving ML community (PySyft).
• AI Security Institute (AISI) — UK institute; evidence on agent/MCP tool usage.