Re: Fwd: Workshop Report: W3C Workshop on the Web of Things

Slight concern no browser vendors showed up. Not a good start :(  

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Marcos Caceres

On August 8, 2014 at 6:09:51 AM, Daniel Appelquist (appelquist@gmail.com) wrote:
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> > Resent-From: w3c-ac-members@w3.org
> > From: "Coralie Mercier"  
> > Date: 8 August 2014 10:53:13 BST
> > To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
> > Subject: Workshop Report: W3C Workshop on the Web of Things
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> > Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
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> > The report from the Web of Things workshop [1] is now available:
> > http://www.w3.org/2014/02/wot/report.html
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> > This was a two day workshop hosted by Siemens with 120 participants from across the World.  
> The agenda featured 20 talks, 10 breakout sessions, 14 demos and 3 panel sessions. The  
> report contains a summary of each of these. W3C staff participation was supported by  
> the EU-funded Compose project [2].
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> > There was broad agreement at Workshop of the problems that currently face the Internet  
> of Things. Until now, the focus has been on the devices and communications technologies.  
> There is a growing awareness that the business opportunities will be centered on the  
> associated services, moreover, the current situation is one of fragmentation with  
> products being developed in isolation due to a plethora of IoT protocols and a lack of  
> a shared approach to services.
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> > Rather than focusing on the IoT layer, it is now critical to focus on what is needed to  
> open up the markets for applications and services that sit on top of the IoT. The workshop  
> attendees showed strong support for W3C to initiate new standards work to help realize  
> the huge potential for the Web of Things as a web scale layer sitting above the IoT.
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> > The workshop examined the opportunities for open Web standards for service platforms  
> in the network edge (e.g. home gateways) and the cloud, along with the challenges for  
> security, privacy and the integration with the Web of data.
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> > The workshop gave a strong message of support for W3C to initiate work on standardization  
> for the Web of Things. The foundations include RESTful HTTP and pub-sub protocols, but  
> the detailed requirements vary across the use cases, e.g. for latency, throughput,  
> transactional robustness and so forth. Building upon these foundations, the workshop  
> identified the need for standards for Web APIs that abstract away from the protocols,  
> including the wide range of IoT technologies used at the network edge to connect to sensors  
> and actuators. Through standardization, we can encourage re-use of APIs and data models.  
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> > The closing session of the workshop raised a proposal to launch a W3C Interest Group.  
> The existing W3C Web and TV Interest Group provides a model for what we can expect for the  
> Web of Things Interest Group. It has established requirements and handed work off to  
> existing Working Groups or launched new Working Groups where appropriate.
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> > The W3C staff will drive the process of chartering the Interest Group through reaching  
> out to a wide range of interested stakeholders. This consultation will seek to clarify  
> the mission for the Interest Group, the target topics and industry priorities, and opportunities  
> for liaisons with other related standards development organizations. Some initial  
> ideas for the scope are included in the workshop report.
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> > We welcome your general expressions of interest and support on .  
> Please copy any substantive comments in response to this email as appropriate to ,  
> which has a Member archive [3]. If you wish to make your comments public, please use  
> (archive [4]).
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> > For more information please contact Dave Raggett .
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> > A formal Advisory Committee Review of the Web of Things Web IG charter is expected later  
> this year.
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> > Coralie Mercier, W3C Communications
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> > [1] http://www.w3.org/2014/02/wot/report.html
> > [2] http://www.compose-project.eu/
> > [3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/
> > [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/
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> > Coralie Mercier - W3C Communications Team - http://www.w3.org
> > mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/
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