Q&A: Phase 32.1 — AgentCommunicator Design Questions

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Q&A: Phase 32.1 — AgentCommunicator Design Questions

This thread is for design questions and discussion about the AgentCommunicator module (Phase 32.1).

Open design questions

1. Transport layer choice — Should we use an in-process message bus, or support pluggable transports (ZeroMQ, gRPC, NATS)?
2. Ontology format — OWL/RDF vs. lightweight JSON-LD vs. custom schema for ontology definitions?
3. Protocol extensibility — How to support custom interaction protocols beyond FIPA standard ones?
4. Message serialization — Protocol Buffers vs. MessagePack vs. JSON for wire format?
5. Backpressure — How should slow consumers handle channel overflow — drop oldest, drop newest, or block sender?

Context

• Issue: Phase 32.1 — AgentCommunicator: Inter-agent messaging with FIPA-ACL speech acts & semantic channels #675
• Implementation notes: Phase 32.1 — AgentCommunicator: Inter-agent messaging with FIPA-ACL speech acts & semantic channels #675 (comment)
• Planning: Phase 32 Planning — Multi-Agent Collaboration & Collective Intelligence #674