# Governance

> the bodies that steward the standards

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- [AAIF](/protocols/governance/aaif) — The Linux Foundation body, formed December 2025, that gives the agentic web's load-bearing protocols — MCP, goose and AGENTS.md — a neutral, vendor-independent governance home.
- [W3C](/protocols/governance/w3c) — The international web standards body that incubates agentic-web specs such as WebMCP (via its Web Machine Learning Community Group) and stewards the schema.org and Verifiable Credentials foundations agents build on.