Perhaps confusingly, I’m referring to MCP as the sum of the protocol, a server adhering to the protocol, and clients adding support (e.g. “Connectors”).
The combination of these things turns into an ecosystem.
MCP is a Protocol. The server and the clients are just that. It truly is a rebranding of “API” seemingly just because it’s for a specific purpose. Not that there’s anything wrong with that… call it whatever. But I don’t understand the need to sell it as something else entirely. It is quite literally a reinvention of RPC.