– DRAFT –
Voice Interaction

<ddahl> agenda: 1. Agent AI protocol Community Group

https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/agentprotocol/

2. GitHub issues

https://github.com/w3c/voiceinteraction/issues including

fuller discussion of issue #65 w3c/voiceinteraction#65

3. Next steps for possible W3C workshop on Smart Voice Agents, following up on this GitHub issue

w3c/strategy#221

a) workshop repository: w3c/smartagents-workshop

b) Repository and updates to current situation

c) draft Call for Participation and W3C approval

d) Program committee

Minutes from the previous meeting, July 2

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-voiceinteraction/2025Jul/0001.html

gerard: MPAI is another protocol for inter-agent communication

Agent AI protocol community group

MPAI https://mpai.community

gerard: multimodal conversation
… you have to pay to be a member, but not to participate
… using the spec doesn't cost

debbie: we should be trying to reach out and talk to them

gerard: we need to find out about their meetings

debbie: we should look at this paper

https://w3c-cg.github.io/ai-agent-protocol/

following on from https://agent-network-protocol.com/

debbie: we should read the paper and then have some discussion

issue 65, we should add a column for requirements

issue 65

version is a requirement

gerard: all the general features are of interest

debbie: location?

gerard: yes, depending on the application

debbie: what about semantics?
… agents don't need semantics anymore because of LLMs

gerard: Open Voice uses which LLM?
… if you use RAG you're back to structured semantics

debbie: external agents are not supposed to need to know the internal semantics

kaz will you be joining us in voice interaction?

debbie: whether or not semantics format is a requirement should be further discussed

workshop

kaz: is contacting possible program committee members

<kaz> Kaz's comment on the PC for the workshop on GitHub

kaz: we have 6 people and some more can join

AI Agent Protocol Community Group

<kaz> AI Agent Protocol Community Group

debbie: should we invite someone from that group?

ACTION: Kaz to contact Song XU about their possible participation

kaz: the workshop will be two hours on two days to accommodate multiple time zones

gerard: agrees to be on PC

gerard: timeline? call for proposals and think about the actual date and time, CfP in September

kaz: workshop in October

gerard: do we have a call for proposals ready?

<kaz> draft Call-for-Participation

debbie: when do we start telling people?

kaz: that should be decided by PC, so probably the end of July

debbie: when should we have the first PC call?
… as soon as possible

gerard: we could use one of these meetings, like July 30

debbie: we should think about one or two more people for PC

kaz: I will talk with the Smart Cities chairs and also Web of Things

ACTION: Kaz to contact Michael Koster about his possible participation in the PC

debbie: we'll give them a few days to decide if they want to join

debbie: what about the agenda?

kaz: logistics (date, organization structure, procedure to get statements and review, interest in potential topics

debbie: desired outcomes

gerard: are we asking for submissons? how many pages?

kaz: one or two line statements
… we are not interested in research papers
… statement, problem and potential solution involving web standards

<kaz> Smart City Workshop proposal submission mechanism

kaz: for Smart Cities we decided to form an Interest Group
… usually go from Community Group, Interest Group, then Working Group

debbie: one outcome would be to decide if there was enough interest to form an Interest Group

debbie: for the next call we'll plan to have the program committee meet