First drafts / resources for the Building Device Naming Standards

Dear all,

Thank you for your interest in the Building Devices Naming Standard initiative, and thank you for joining this W3C community group. The creation of this group follows the successful organisation of a workshop in London in early December 2019, where a broad set of people from the industry reinforced our understanding of a need for greater interoperability in this domain.

I am delighted to announce that a first draft specification has now been made public on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/theodi/BDNS <https://github.com/theodi/BDNS> 

This draft is based on a collaborative effort by Arup, British Land, Google and the ODI. It is imperfect, incomplete, and we will rely on the contribution and feedback from this community to make it better. As  the draft specification is still in its early days, we would like to encourage feedback mostly on scope and direction: do you see this helping increase interoperability? Are there essential elements missing, or on the contrary, sections of the document you would suggest to keep out of scope for the time being? 

If you would like to send feedback, thoughts or suggestions on the draft, we recommend doing so by creating an issue in the Github Repository <https://github.com/theodi/BDNS>, as it offers the most convenient and transparent ways of triaging and addressing feedback. If however you are not able to do so through Github, please feel free to send your feedback by sending a message to this (public) email forum public-bdns@w3.org <mailto:public-bdns@w3.org>. Note that your feedback will, in both cases, be publicly visible.

This process for feedback is part of the proposed governance <https://github.com/theodi/BDNS/blob/master/BDNS_Governance_model.md> for this initiative, which we will be maintaining and updating as this group matures and our ways of working evolve.

Could we ask that you send your initial feedback by the end of March? We will hold a meeting around that time to triage feedback and plan an update to the draft specification accordingly.  Post-March we will be inviting you to share more specific and detailed feedback with us.

Kind Regard,
Olivier


— 
Olivier Thereaux - Head of Technology
Open Data Institute - @ODIHQ