RE: Bootstrapping the Web of Things Community Group

Hi Dave,

One very "Web of Things" oriented effort, that I have not seen mentioned on this list before, is the standardization of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) in the IETF, see http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/core/charter/ and http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-core-coap/.

CoAP is an application protocol that supports the RESTful CRUD methods similar to HTTP (in practice GET, PUT, DELETE and POST), but in a more lightweight manner. For instance, it runs over UDP (and DTLS for security), and is binary encoded. In addition to the baseline protocol, some of the related infrastructure, such as resource directories, mirror proxies etc. are being standardized. The idea is that CoAP is so compact, that it fits nicely on top of IP even on the most constrained radio links, such as Zigbee or Bluetooth Low Energy. Otherwise all the normal Web design principles apply.

I don't know how far the Community Group effort will go, but it would be certainly interesting to get CoAP JS API standardized, so that it could be supported in browsers or web apps, for instance.

You can find the contact details of the active CoAP people from the CoRE WG pages, including chairs and draft authors. Carsten Bormann, Cullen Jennings (WG chairs) and Zach Shelby (base protocol main author) good candidates, for instance.

There is also IP for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance, http://www.ipso-alliance.org/, an industry group dedicated to the promotion of IP/Internet and Web technologies for "smart objects". Geoff Mulligan is the chair.

Regards,
                Markus


From: ext Dave Raggett [mailto:dsr@w3.org]
Sent: 17 January, 2014 18:54
To: public-web-of-things@w3.org
Subject: Bootstrapping the Web of Things Community Group

The group has been very quiet until now, and I would like to get things moving, especially, as we want your help with the planning the W3C Web of Things Workshop to be held this June somewhere in Europe.  The dates and location are still to be decided. Please let us have your ideas!



The aim of the workshop will be to discuss opportunities for standardization as a basis for interoperability and a thriving ecosystem. To support that we will be looking for examples of use cases, and analyses of requirements and architectures, as well as implementation experiences. Please help us to frame the scope of the workshop in more detail.

Which people/organizations should we invite to become part of the workshop's program committee?

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Looking forward to working with you all.
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