Agentic AI Overlay Working Group

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Building a secure, distributed data exchange for the AI era. The Working Group will develop a reference architecture and put it into a buyers guide.

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Agentic AI Overlay Working Group

What We’re Working On

Nick Lippis
Nick Lippis
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
Acting Chairperson

The Agentic AI Overlay reframes networking around one urgent goal: Secure, intelligent data movement at enterprise scale.

Redefining Enterprise Networking for the AI Era
Enterprise infrastructure is at a breaking point. AI workloads are growing exponentially, traffic patterns are no longer predictable, and traditional networks—built on outdated protocols like BGP—can’t keep up.

At the AI Networking Summit in Dallas, a new vision emerged:
The Agentic AI Overlay—a secure, autonomous, policy-driven framework designed to support real-time, AI-powered data exchange.

This is more than a concept. It’s the foundation of the next generation of networking. And now, we’re forming a Working Group to make it real.

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Why the Agentic AI Overlay?

The Agentic AI Overlay reframes networking around one urgent goal:
Secure, intelligent data movement at enterprise scale.

As AI data centers expand and cloud/edge workloads become increasingly dynamic, networks must evolve from static, rule-based systems into adaptive, agent-driven architectures that respond in real time.

This Working Group will bring together enterprise IT leaders, solution providers, and cloud-scale architects to define the architecture, protocols, and components that will make this possible.

What We’re Building Together
The Agentic AI Overlay Working Group will collaboratively define and develop a framework built on:

  • Modal Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocols
  • Agent Directory
  • Stateless AI Router

Who Should Join? 
The AI era demands a radically new approach to enterprise networking.
This is your chance to help shape it.

  • A network or cloud architect facing complexity from AI workloads,
  • A vendor building automation, observability, or orchestration tools, or
  • An enterprise leader looking to modernize operations
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The ONUG Collaborative is a consortium of enterprise IT professionals and suppliers – product vendors, cloud service providers, communications service providers and system integrators. It provides an unbiased forum for driving industry change and enabling IT professionals to break through barriers to achieve better business outcomes.

The Collaborative facilitates peer-to-peer engagement between its members, including enterprise thought leaders, early adopters and technology innovators. These members then collaborate on solutions for overcoming critical networking and security challenges in the Cloud Era. The Collaborative offers a level playing field for the open exchange of viewpoints and insights that helps foster valuable relationships between enterprises and suppliers.

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