Per a discussion with Paul Heisterkamp in Cambridge on January 21, 1999, I would like to suggest the following poster topic for you "tea lounge discussion area". This is simply a list of open questions that I find important in dealing with the development and deployment of live spoken language dialog systems, as situated in actual industrial contexts. This submission is certainly not a scientific contribution in any sense other than it poses som questions that may possibly interest researchers. I would of course be excited to find that some of them have already been answered.