UCP Tech Council Expands: What the Meeting Minutes Tell Us About Where the Protocol Is Heading

On Friday just gone, five of the largest technology companies in the world quietly joined the governing body of the Universal Commerce Protocol. No press release. No blog post. Just a commit to MAINTAINERS.md in the spec repository. Amazon. Meta. Microsoft. Salesforce. Stripe. All now have seats on the UCP Tech Council — the body that reviews, debates, and approves every change to the protocol that AI shopping agents use to buy things. We know this because we read the meeting minutes. Every week