Meeting minutes
jim: maybe ask Janina about inviting Paolo to APA TPAC session
debbie: will review APA work in one of our calls
debbie: we probably won't organize a voice breakout session
jim: should think about going in person next year
dirk: needs to add a few more sentences before reviewing interfaces
implied requirements
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jim: any agent should be able to interoperate with any other agent
… general to general, specific to general, all combinations
dirk: some specific assistants may not be able to exist on their own
jim: IPA's should be able to switch back and forth
dirk: is switching between IPA's the same as interoperating?
… say we have a bank IPA, it should be possible for Alexa to forward the request to the bank IPA
… but the bank IPA may not know about the general purpose IPA
… but Siri and Alexa should be able to interoperate
jim: interoperability has several meanings
debbie: should bank IPA be able to ask Alexa for an exchange rate?
jon: host agent should be able to send you to the exchange rate
debbie: users should not have to write anything down
jim: want to switch between agents and share data
jim: want specialized IPA to be able to call general IPA
debbie: how does specialized application understand you?
dirk: interoperability needs to be defined in more detail
jon: hub and spoke architecture
jim: the purpose of discovery is to figure out where to go
debbie: people can both navigate and discover