Re: Exploring Collaboration Between AI Agent Protocol CG and WebAgents CG

Dear Andrei and all,

Thank you for your feedback. I agree with your analysis – while there is
some overlap in content, each party plays different roles. I suggest that
both sides proceed with practical work as soon as possible and participate
in each other's meetings going forward, collaborating in different roles to
jointly advance the development of AI agents within W3C.

*Best regards,*
Gaowei Chang



On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM Andrei Ciortea <andrei.ciortea@inria.fr>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> @Joshua: thanks for sharing the comparison table — great! We used your
> proposal in yesterday's meeting to build a discussion, and we will include
> a similar table in Section 2 of the Interoperability TF report [1]. The
> criteria and the table will likely evolve as the report evolves. I will
> return with more details on the report and the next steps towards the end
> of the week.
>
> @Gaowei: thanks for launching the discussion. We discussed the positioning
> of the two CGs in our regular meeting yesterday.
>
> Our consensus was that the CGs seem to overlap in terms of content, but
> take different roles:
> - the role of the WebAgents CG (and especially the Interoperability TF) is
> to observe the landscape, so we do not focus on developing specific
> protocols (at least not at this point); instead, we survey the body of
> research, emerging technologies, and existing work to identify guidelines,
> requirements, and standardization gaps; the Agent Network Protocol falls
> within the scope of our survey; the results could provide input to groups
> producing specifications
> - the AI Agent Protocol CG seems more focused on producing specifications
> for one or more protocols
>
> What seems important is to coordinate the two CGs closely. One very
> pragmatic issue discussed yesterday is that we are already coordinating
> with several groups (WoT CG/IG/WG, Solid CG, LWS WG) and we are lacking the
> bandwidth to ensure good coordination with all these groups. So, it would
> be a great help if a representative of the AI Agent Protocol CG could join
> our regular meetings to support the coordination.
>
> Gaowei, let us know how this sounds and if we can support the initiative
> of the AI Agent Protocol CG in any way.
>
> Best wishes,
> Andrei
>
> [1]
> https://w3c-cg.github.io/webagents/TaskForces/Interoperability/Reports/report-interoperability.html
>
> --
> Andrei Ciortea
>
> Assistant Professor
> School of Computer Science
> University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
> https://interactions.ics.unisg.ch/
>
> External Collaborator
> Wimmics
> Inria, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France
> https://wimmics.inria.fr/
>
>
>
> On 17 May 2025, at 11:53, Joshua Cornejo <josh@marketdata.md> wrote:
>
> I would suggest that someone build a table of the scope of these efforts
> and others, a quick search already shows a “busy” space, and it is hard for
> a solution builder to choose an approach or promote a standard.
>
> [image: image001.png]
>
> ___________________________________
> *Joshua Cornejo*
> *marketdata <https://www.marketdata.md/>*
> smart authorisation management for the AI-era
>
> *From: *Gaowei Chang <chgaowei@gmail.com>
> *Date: *Saturday, 17 May 2025 at 09:56
> *To: *<andrei.ciortea@inria.fr>, <rem.collier@ucd.ie>, <
> ege.korkan@siemens.com>, Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann@emse.fr>,
> <public-webagents@w3.org>
> *Cc: *<public-agentprotocol@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Exploring Collaboration Between AI Agent Protocol CG and
> WebAgents CG
> *Resent-From: *<public-webagents@w3.org>
> *Resent-Date: *Sat, 17 May 2025 08:55:58 +0000
>
> Dear WebAgents Community Members,
> Hello!
>
> My name is Gaowei Chang, and I’m one of the co-chairs of the newly formed AI
> Agent Protocol Community Group
> <https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/agentprotocol/> at W3C, alongside Song Xu.
> I am also the initiator of the open-source Agent Network Protocol
> <https://github.com/agent-network-protocol/AgentNetworkProtocol> (ANP). A
> few months ago, I had the opportunity to present ANP to the WebAgents CG —
> thank you again for the warm reception at that time.
>
> Our new CG is focused on the design and standardization of protocols
> between AI agents. The goal is to develop secure, interoperable, and
> scalable mechanisms to support agent communication and collaboration on the
> Web — particularly as intelligent agents become first-class participants in
> Web ecosystems.
>
> While our focus areas may differ slightly, we see a lot of synergy between
> our two groups. Topics such as agent discovery, identity, interaction
> protocols, and metadata modeling are highly relevant to both communities.
>
> We would love to explore avenues for collaboration, to avoid duplication
> and ensure that the Web benefits from a harmonized approach to agent
> interoperability. We welcome any opportunity to coordinate and exchange
> ideas with the WebAgents CG, and we’re open to participating in joint
> discussions or sessions.
>
> Looking forward to connecting soon!
>
> *Best regards*,
> Gaowei Chang
> Co-Chair, AI Agent Protocol CG
> Founder, ANP Open Source Community
> [image: image001.png]
>
>
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