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

Excellent. Thank you, Ted. Much appreciated.

:rjs

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Ted Guild <ted@w3.org> wrote:

> 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).
> >
> >
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > This post sent on Automotive and Web Platform Business Group
> >
> >
> >
> > 'Deprecating earlier WebIDL based Automotive specifications'
> >
> > https://www.w3.org/community/autowebplatform/2017/10/11/deprecating-e
> > arlier-webidl-based-automotive-specifications/
> >
> >
> >
> > Learn more about the Automotive and Web Platform Business Group:
> >
> > https://www.w3.org/community/autowebplatform
> >
> >
> >
> >
> --
> Ted Guild <ted@w3.org>
> W3C Systems Team
> http://www.w3.org




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