Title: RE: Liaison statement from IETF SPEECHSC WG to W3C Multimedia Interaction WG 
Date: 29 September 2004

Leslie,

Thank you for the liason statement and for your interest in EMMA.
We have just published the third Working Draft of EMMA. Our
current plan is to publish a Last Call Working Draft in December,
and a Candidate Recommendation in June, 2005. We would be very
grateful for any comments or feedback you might have on the current Working
Draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/emma/). This kind of feedback should be very 
useful in both helping us progress EMMA through the W3C Recommendation
process,
as well as in insuring that it becomes a useful and accepted standard which
meets the requirements of the speech processing industry. The overlapping
membership between the W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group and
the MRCPv2 group should be helpful in facilitating communication across
groups.

Although NLSML had only reached a 1st WD status, it
has nonetheless proved a useful interim specification. We
hope that MRCPv2 can be revised to normatively reference
EMMA in preference to NLSML once EMMA reaches Candidate Recommendation.

Note that the W3C and the IETF have a formal liason process, so I
am copying Martin Duerst, who is responsible for this liason on the
W3C side, on this message. I am also copying Wu Chao and Michael
Johnston, the primary editors of EMMA.

Best wishes on your work with MRCPv2, and looking forward to 
continued interaction with your group.

regards,

Debbie Dahl
Chair, W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group