Web of Things Interest Group Updated Charter and a Working Group Charter in Development (Advance Notice)

Hello,

The W3C Advisory Committee received an advance notice that participants 
of the Web of Things Interest Group (WoT IG) [1] are currently working 
on an updated charter for the Interest Group [2] and also a charter for 
the Web of Things Working Group (WoT WG) [3] to standardize cross domain 
metadata as a basis for different IoT platforms to interoperate, a 
serialization format, and platform agnostic APIs for applications to 
interact with things standing for physical and abstract entities.

The WoT IG started operation in the beginning of 2015 following the Web 
of Things workshop [4] in mid 2014. The IG has supported outreach and 
coordination with a number of external IoT alliances and standards 
development organizations in respect to the role that W3C can play for 
enabling semantic interoperability and end to end security across 
platforms defined by different organizations, and as a basis for 
countering the fragmentation that is currently holding back the 
potential for the IoT.

The updated charter will continue the IG's existing work items, as well 
as a increased emphasis on semantic interoperability, and plugfests in 
collaboration with external groups. The IG and WG are expected to 
coordinate their activities closely. The IG will support the WG, e.g. 
through providing use cases and requirements as well as implementation 
experience. The IG will be expected to propose new work items for 
transfer to the W3C Recommendation Track, and to consider initiating new 
work items at the request of other W3C groups, when these requests fall 
within the charter scope, and are consistent with IG's priorities.

Effectively, the existing IG's charter [5] is extended until 31 July 
2016, in order to cover the time needed for the rechartering process to 
complete.

Members and public are encouraged to send comments and suggestions for 
changes to the WoT IG's public mailing-list <public-wot-ig@w3.org> 
(archive [6]). Members may also discuss the draft charters on 
<w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact: 
Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> .

A formal Advisory Committee Review for the IG's updated charter will be 
in June; and the WG's proposed charter review is expected in September.

This announcement follows section 5.2.2 of the W3C Process Document:
   https://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#WGCharterDevelopment

The charter extension follows section 5.2.5 of the W3C Process Document:
   https://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#charter-extension

Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing and Communications

[1] https://www.w3.org/WoT/IG/
[2] https://www.w3.org/2016/05/wot-ig-2016-alpha4.html
[3] https://w3c.github.io/wot/charters/wot-wg-2016.html
[4] http://www.w3.org/2014/02/wot/
[5] http://www.w3.org/2014/12/wot-ig-charter.html
[6] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wot-ig/

Received on Monday, 23 May 2016 16:07:53 UTC