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Read the current pitch

These three pieces are the cleanest current articulations of what vCon is and why it matters now. Read one and you have the framing.

• vCon: The Power of a Definition — Thomas Howe, CPaaSAA, Aug 2025. The "magic of vCons", reality collapse, and SCITT as a global digital notary.

• The vCon Reality Check: Moving Beyond Generative Hype to Actual Conversational Architecture — Thomas Wieberneit, Medium, April 2026. Analyst framing for why enterprises should care.

• The Pulver vCon Report — Jeff Pulver's ongoing Substack series. Best single subscription for tracking industry adoption.

Official Documents

Read the IETF working-group draft: draft-ietf-vcon-vcon-core-02 — the current spec target, with syntax parameter "vcon": "0.4.0".

Track our group's progress at the IETF (charter, meetings, and active drafts).

Extension drafts

vCon's extension mechanism (extensions[] + must_understand[] / critical) is documented in the core draft. Active extension drafts:

• draft-howe-vcon-lawful-basis — lawful basis for processing (GDPR / privacy compliance)

• draft-howe-vcon-lifecycle — SCITT-based lifecycle and audit trail

• draft-howe-vcon-wtf — World Transcription Format (multi-vendor transcription)

• draft-howe-vcon-agent-session — verifiable agent-conversation session trace

• draft-howe-vcon-sip-signaling — SIP telephony signaling metadata

• draft-howe-vcon-mcp-session — MCP / LLM session attachment

See the Extensions section of this site for a per-extension overview.

Historical note: The pre-WG draft was draft-petrie-vcon-01 with syntax "0.0.2". Both have been superseded by the working-group draft above. If you find content elsewhere referencing the old draft or version string, treat it as historical.

vCon Software and Implementations

Visit our open source library for the vCon and the Conserver. (Give us a star!)

The Repo for the py-vcon and py-vcon-server Projects

Videos and Presentations

See the Keynote at TAD Summit, Paris, October, 2023

See the TADSummit Podcast with Alan Quayle, September, 2023

See the Birds of a Feather session at IETF 116, Yokohama, March, 2023

See the presentation at TADSummit, Portugal, Nov 2022

See the presentation at IETF 115, London, Nov 2022

See the presentation at IIT, Chicago, Oct 2022

See the key note proposal for vCons.

White Papers

Read the white paper

Ecosystem

A non-exhaustive set of companies, products, and communities building on vCon today. See Talks, Articles & Press for the full curated list of writing and recordings.

• Vconic — Strolid's commercial vCon platform, real-time vCon processing and proof-of-value applications.

• Strolid: IETF for vCons and Strolid AI Conserver — the BPO that incubated vCon, running roughly a quarter million conversations per month through the format.

• MindMaking — vCon app store for service providers, turning calls into structured vCons with transcript, summary, action items, and sentiment.

• Nimble Ape — Dan Jenkins / CommCon, the open RTC community that hosts early implementer conversations.

• py-vcon — Dan Petrie's reference Python implementation, including py-vcon-server.

• vCon Foundation — Jeff Pulver's foundation and the rolling commentary on adoption.

• CPaaS Acceleration Alliance — the alliance's ongoing vCon coverage, including the CASA Amsterdam events.

• Cavell — analyst overview for the CX / CCaaS audience.

• Telecom Reseller podcasts — Doug Green's running podcast series, including the Pulver, CarrierX, and healthcare-AI episodes.