diff --git a/Meetings/RegularMeetings/2025-09-26.md b/Meetings/RegularMeetings/2025-09-26.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae8d9ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Meetings/RegularMeetings/2025-09-26.md @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +# WebAgents CG: Regular Meeting (Sept. 26, 2025) + +## Agenda + + * Introduction + * Introduction of new participants (if any) + * Review minutes from the previous meeting + * General CG updates + * Review of Task Forces + * Open discussion: Hybrid meeting at ECAI 2025 + +## Participants + + * Andrei Ciortea + * Antoine Zimmermann + * Rem Collier + * Jérémy Lemée + * Stephen Cranefield + * L. Gustavo Nardin + * Önder Gürcan + * Alessandro Giugno + * Jean-Paul Calbimonte + * Simon Mayer + +## Regrets + + * Ege Korkan + +**Scribe**: Rem, Antoine + +**Notes from previous meeting**: [https://github.com/w3c-cg/webagents/pull/96/commits/748ed7752a28bb5f272041a2e1699a7231e28a5f](https://github.com/w3c-cg/webagents/pull/96/commits/748ed7752a28bb5f272041a2e1699a7231e28a5f) + +## Meeting Notes + +### Hybrid CG meeting @ ECAI 2025 + +ECAI 2025: [https://ecai2025.org/](https://ecai2025.org/) + +Coordinates: + + * the venue is The Engineering School, University of Bologna: [https://ecai2025.org/venues/](https://ecai2025.org/venues/) + * we can rent a room with 25 seats for the afternoon of Oct. 25 + * see also the ECAI 2025 schedule at a glance: [https://ecai2025.org/schedule-at-a-glance/](https://ecai2025.org/schedule-at-a-glance/) + * the CG meeting is co-located with the HyperAgents 2025 workshop on Oct. 26: [https://ecai2025.hyperagents.org/](https://ecai2025.hyperagents.org/) + * for anyone joining only the CG meeting in person, there will be a reduced ECAI-2025 registration fee of 60 EUR + VAT; this covers the coffee breaks and access to the facilities (not the rent for the room itself) + +Current agenda proposal (afternoon of Oct. 25): + + * **14:00-14:15** Welcome and agenda setting + * **14:15-15:30** Focused discussion + * main topic: architectural considerations for Web-based agents and multi-agent systems + * **15:30-16:00** Coffee Break + * **16:00-17:00** Demo / Hands-on session for validating the architectural patterns + * **17:00-17:30** Wrap up and next steps + +Potential issue with Internet connection. We may have to rely on 5G. The room must be rented for 130 EUR + VAT. Univ. St-Gallen can cover this. + +A good outcome would be to end up with a good diagram of the architecture. Also, gather inputs for the W3C and its AI activity. + +Possibly have breakout groups to work on different topics. + +JL: How will architectural patterns help? + +OG: Plan to come up with an architecture diagram - are there facilities for discussion (Whiteboard, etc.). + +AC: We have a screen or projector, SM to provide a 360 microphone. - will ask about whiteboards + +AC: Repeated JL question + +JL: Confirmed point about the importance of architectural patterns in the document + +AC: Sees them as a blueprint for the document + +AC: Reviewing report - has concern that the Agentic approaches are reducing the environment to interactions support (HTTP as transport) + +AC: Re-emphasizing the value of the web as a distributed hypermedia environment - there are demos of the approach + +AC: Referencing design goals / architectural patterns as per DID spec ([https://www.w3.org/TR/did-1.0/#design-goals)](https://www.w3.org/TR/did-1.0/#design-goals)) + +AC: presenting DW situated agent design pattern + +AC: Moving on to the discussion of the virtual environment pattern + +AC: MCP Server is just an instantiation of this pattern + +JL: Asks about other sections and whether we need patterns for each one. + +AC: We should emphasize that we are interested in Open Environments rather than Closed Environments + +AC: Mentioned IEFT CORE working group - + +RC: Mentioned inviting DW to participate in the Hybrid Meeting \& Possibly HyperAgents + +AC: Wrapping up... + +OG: @AC: Please can you clarify daily rates \ No newline at end of file