vCon is an IETF format for a conversation as a portable document: the parties, the dialog, attachments and analysis such as transcripts and summaries. It is relevant to agents as a record of what was said to and by them.
vCon (Virtualized Conversations)
vCon is an IETF format for a conversation as a portable document: the parties, the dialog, attachments and analysis such as transcripts and summaries. It is relevant to agents as a record of what was said to and by them.
Where it stands
As of 2026-10-25, the Agentic Standards Map records:
Active working group in the Applications and Real-Time Area, charter-ietf-vcon-01 approved (last updated 2026-03-18); its core draft, draft-ietf-vcon-vcon-core-04 (Standards Track), is dated 2026-09-07. The datatracker lists four charter milestones, dated 2023-12-31 (adopt two drafts) and 2024-06-30 (submit them to the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)), and shows no completion state. The virtual interim of 2026-10-08 (14:00 to 16:00 UTC) was held; the editor’s message after it is quoted below. …
Why it matters to agents
The charter defines vCon as a JSON container “to contain and/or reference conversational data, including call style metadata, recordings, data exchanged or presented in the conversations, conversation analysis, transcriptions, translations and annotations”, so it is the IETF format for the record of a conversation. …
Sources
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-vcon/
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/vcon/about/
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-vcon-vcon-core/
- https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/vcon/O-raCMkzhsmHlOY0Hw48awOViGQ/
- https://github.com/ietf-wg-vcon/draft-ietf-vcon-vcon-core/pull/37
- https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/vcon/5tu645wIp4SyLHxLXh89fEPigPw/
Status and relevance quoted, shortened, from the Agentic Standards Map by Francesco Marinoni Moretto, CC BY 4.0, https://frmoretto.github.io/agentic-standards-map/. The full entry, with every dated source, is in map.json under ietf-vcon.
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