Upcoming meetings
- DateNameLocation
- 13 January 2026TC56 teleconference – January 2026Teleconference
Activities:
TC56 was formally established and the committee holds regular teleconference meetings to work on the development of a natural language interaction protocol (NLIP) standard that will specify a common protocol, framework and interfaces for interactions between AI agents.
NLIP is a specification for a universal application level protocol which can enable communication among two agents. The protocol is developed by TC56 to become an Ecma standard. The Enterprise Neurosystems Group (ENG), an open-source consortium, is acting as an advisory group to TC56 providing feedback on the drafts being developed and different topics. This allows for feedback from a wider community of experts.
TC56 works on the development of five standards: a NLIP specification, NLIP bindings over AMQP, HTTP/HTTPS, WebSocket and security profiles for NLIP. TC56 is also developing an overview of NLIP as a technical report. To facilitate public review and feedback, the drafts can be consulted on the NLIP GitHub.