Re: Deprecating earlier WebIDL based Automotive specifications [via Automotive and Web Platform Business Group]

I published this brief article and updated our old Business Group
reports (early draft specs of WebIDL approach) with a deprecation
notice pointing to them. I have done the same with those specs' status
section in Github and the have requested the old vehicle data spec
published under /TR to be published as a note.

https://www.w3.org/2014/automotive/vehicle_spec.html
https://www.w3.org/2014/automotive/data_spec.html
http://cdn.rawgit.com/w3c/automotive/gh-pages/vehicle_data/vehicle_spec.html
http://cdn.rawgit.com/w3c/automotive/gh-pages/vehicle_data/data_spec.html

Processing pending, should be completed soon, likely tomorrow.

https://www.w3.org/TR/vehicle-data/

We have had some recent confusion where another organization had
stumbled onto our discontinued work. I have reviewed our various pages
as well to ensure pointers are directly people to current work.

On Wed, 2017-10-11 at 13:48 +0000, W3C Community Development Team
wrote:
> The W3C Automotive Webplatform Business Group worked on a pair of
> WebIDL specifications for exposing vehicle signals as a first class
> object within a browser runtime. They were published as final reports
> in December of 2014 to be handed over to a newly chartered W3C
> Automotive Working Group to bring them through the W3C standards
> process. Based on feedback from various other groups at W3C,
> including the Technical Architecture Group, and how the Auto industry
> is split between HTML5 and Qt for developing applications for head
> units we switched to a service approach (VISS) in July of 2016. A
> service also allows for headless applications that do not need to
> operate in HTML5 or Qt, example being data collection for fleet
> management.
> 
> In December of 2016 The VW Group joined W3C and submitted their
> similar approach (ViWi) for consideration. As prototypes were
> underway and we wanted to further our understanding of issues from
> implementation experiences the group resolved to continue VISS work
> and formed a task force for converging the two approaches for next
> version specification (RSI). The group intends to complete VISS and
> recharter for RSI end of 2017 or early 2018 and publish First Public
> Working Drafts (FPWD). RSI has modules for other services that will
> be made available, media services, media libraries, CDN,
> notifications with more planned Location Based Services (LBS).
> 
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> This post sent on Automotive and Web Platform Business Group
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> 'Deprecating earlier WebIDL based Automotive specifications'
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> https://www.w3.org/community/autowebplatform/2017/10/11/deprecating-e
> arlier-webidl-based-automotive-specifications/
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> Learn more about the Automotive and Web Platform Business Group: 
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> https://www.w3.org/community/autowebplatform
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