MCP 2026 Roadmap Prioritizes Enterprise Readiness, Transport Scalability, and Governance

Summary

The Model Context Protocol project has published its 2026 roadmap, identifying four core priorities: transport evolution and scalability (HTTP transport improvements for load balancing and horizontal scaling, `.well-known` metadata discovery endpoints), agent communication refinements (retry semantics, expiry policies for task results), governance maturation (Working Group delegation so domain-specific SEPs can advance without waiting for full Core Maintainer review), and enterprise readiness (a