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Cloud · 13 standards supported · 8 from adopter lists · read Sep 25, 2026

StandardEvidence
AI agents
Model Context Protocol
Server

com.microsoft.esrp/esrp-oss-mcp-test; Azure MCP Server

Official MCP Registry and vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
Agent2Agent
Supported

A2A partners page and vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
Model APIs and runtimes
OpenAI-compatible API
Endpoint

Vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
ONNX
Runtime

ONNX supported tools page and vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
Telemetry and lineage
OpenTelemetry
Native OTLP

commercial

OpenTelemetry vendors registry and vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
Table formats
Apache Iceberg
REST catalog

Apache Iceberg vendors page and vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
Delta Lake
Integration

Power BI, Azure Stream Analytics, Microsoft Fabric

Delta Lake integrations page and vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
File and memory formats
Apache Arrow
Uses Arrow

Vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
Apache Parquet
Read

Vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
Identity and sign-in
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
OpenID Certified

OpenID Foundation certified implementations and vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
FIDO2 and passkeys
Passkey sign-in

Vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
Provenance and supply chain
C2PA Content Credentials
Signs content

C2PA membership page and vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026
SPDX
Produces SBOMs

Vendor docs

Sep 25, 2026

History

DateChange
Role added OpenTelemetry Native OTLP

Native OTLP set to true in data/ecosystem/vendors.yaml.

Added Apache Iceberg

Added to site/docs/vendors.md in apache/iceberg.

Added Agent2Agent Partner

Added to docs/partners.md in a2aproject/A2A.

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