[Agentproto] Sussing out points of disagreement on the charter

Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@gmail.com> Wed, 12 August 2026 04:19 UTC

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Hi all,
  We have received a lot of great comments during and after the BoF on the
charter [0]. After the Bof, Brian [1] and Jonathan [2] have taken a shot at
rewriting a more streamlined charter from the ground up based on the
comments received. Since these are complete rewrites, I think we may have
to dig in a bit deeper to see where the points of disagreement are. From my
reading of these two proposals and the comments on github, these aspects
seem to be some of the questions that we need to answer before we can work
on more focused edits on the charter

1. Is the output of the working group a substrate or only a set of
semantics?
2. Should the session lifecycle be in scope?
3. Do we have to work on correlation only, or do we need proof of binding
as well?
4. Do we need to support point-to-multipoint or is bilateral communication
sufficient?
5. How many deliverables, what status, in what order?
6. How much of the terminology should we define in the charter, and on the
flip side how comfortable we are building on vaguely defined terms?

Are there other things we need to consider? Your inputs are greatly
appreciated.

Thanks
Suresh

[0] https://github.com/ietf-artarea/charters/blob/main/agentproto/charter.md
[1] https://github.com/ietf-artarea/charters/pull/77/
[2] https://github.com/jdrosen/aiproto-wg/pull/48