Dear Max,
TC6 had its second annual meeting in Muscat, last week. There it was discussed the aims and scope of the TC12 Working Groups that you have proposed in the last TA. TC6 showed some concern for possible overlaps in the scope of WG 12.3/WG 12.4 and WG 6.7/WG 6.4.
WG 12.3 will deal with agent-based applications, which is also the case of WG 6.7, concerning networking as the application in this case. In our view this is a very small overlap, at the application level, which can be solved easily.
WG 12.4 deals with the semantic web. Here, the overlap with WG 6.4 might be more substantial. WG 6.4 organizes a yearly conference (WWW), which attracts many hundreds of participants, in which the semantic web is one of the topics. Again, this overlap may possibly be solved, as I think that TC12 in essentially focussing on the AI techniques applied to semantic web. However, I feel that it would be worthwhile to discuss and clarify these aspects in the next TA meeting, before approving the WG 12.4 scope as it is now.
The aims and scope of the TC6 Working Groups are included in the TC6 handbook, which I sent you some weeks ago.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca