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MCP Hosting Working Group (WG) - Meeting Notes

WG proposal: MCP Hosting Working Group (WG) – Vision & Roadmap
Chairs: TBD
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/dV44HsCKwh
Google group for shared invitations: https://groups.google.com/g/mcp-hosting-wg

Apr 17, 2025 9:00 AM PDT
Note taker: [Christophe Ploujoux]

Suggested agenda:

  • Introductions & Google Group - Join the MCP Hosting WG Google Group
  • Access to documents and meeting notes
  • Receive calendar invites for recurring meetings
  • Review & discuss WG proposal/scope/charter
  • MCP Hosting Working Group (WG) – Vision & Roadmap
  • Should we reduce the scope of work, given that some areas are already covered by other Community Working Groups?
    • Transports:
    • It's a good idea to share/open source non-standard implementations - and a potential way for hosting implementors to value-add.
    • Make it pluggable instead of having one protocol for a server. Handle the transport in the sdk ? Define a standard
    • Hackathon for transports
    • Multi-tenancy
    • We need to build a glossary document
    • Packaging
    • JB: Think standardising docker is the way to go, but DSP has already commented that he does not want direct docker interfaces in the official SDKs
    • JG: mixed feelings on Docker. On the one hand, it's pretty great for the web deploying world. on the other it's not useful to mobile or embedded really at all
    • BC: there might be a middle-ground where the launch invocation is standardized (like a common launcher binary or packaging process) but the runtime could be a container or some other micro-vm or even servelet like mcp.run
    • JB: fastmcp2 has introduced the option to mount servers and expose them via any transport supported by fastmcp. you could build on this for the other transports
  • Should we set the recurring meeting duration to 30 minutes every 2 weeks?
  • 30 minutes every week on a suggestion basis, meaning if you want to talk about a subject add it to the agenda. Add a recording disclosed to everyone

Apr 10, 2025 9:00 AM PDT
Poll closed - ~~Poll to determine the meeting date: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/specification/discussions/220#discussioncomment-12694134~~

Suggested agenda:

  • Community Working Groups
  • [Public] MCP CWG Discord Charter
  • Hosting Working Group Introductions
  • Review & discuss WG proposal/scope/charter (MCP Hosting Working Group (WG) – Vision & Roadmap)
  • Agree on communication channels
  • Discuss initial roadmap themes & priorities
  • Multi-tenancy
  • Discovery
  • Transport
    1. Websocket
      1. Websocket open for discussion
      2. Tadas proposed to give what has been said on websocket on github to people interested in
  • Improve shape of the tool structure on the server side
    1. Metadata
    2. Telemetry
    3. Permissions
  • Schedule recurring meeting
  • Thursday 9AM PDT every week
  • 30 min
  • Important: goal is to use Discord beforehand of the meeting to have a concise and efficient 30 min

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