The Consent Layer Is Getting Built – But Not by the Bodies That Own the Specs.

October 2026 marks a definitive inflection point for agent infrastructure. While industry standards bodies have spent months debating the architecture of trust, the market has bypassed them entirely. Three distinct developments – the release of PACT, the emergence of Salesforce’s A2A-compliant labeling, and the expansion of the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Identity Framework (AAIF) – demonstrate that the industry is no longer waiting for top-down ratification. Instead, trust infrastructure is being built bottom-up through shipping code, creating a functional, if fragmented, consensus.

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