- From: David Baron via WBS Mailer <sysbot+wbs@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:15:01 +0000
- To: public-new-work@w3.org
The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Call for Review: Web of Things Working Group Charter' (Advisory Committee) for Mozilla Foundation by David Baron. The reviewer's organization suggests changes to this Charter, but supports the proposal whether or not the changes are adopted. Additional comments about the proposal: We are happy overall with the contents of the charter and recommend approving it (with comment), but the Working Group are aware that we still have reservations in some areas, which we would like to note. We would like to join the WoT Working Group under its new charter (we are already members of the Interest Group, but made a formal objection <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2016Oct/0004.html> to the previous charter for the Working Group in 2016). Our comments on the new charter are as follows. We welcome the "interoperability profiles" and "discovery" work items which we hope may improve interoperability by defining a common cross-domain default protocol binding, and we note the progress which has been made with regard to privacy and security considerations. We still have some areas of concern around the scope of the charter, specifically: 1. The work item to continue to define protocol bindings for non-web protocols makes the scope unreasonably large and makes ad-hoc interoperability very challenging 2. Thing Description Templates are an unnecessary complication and overlap in use cases with interoperability profiles and capability schemas defined through semantic annotations 3. We think that the WoT Architecture specification should really be a non-normative note in order to reduce the number of normative specifications needed for implementers 4. Non-normative deliverables for WoT Scripting, Management and Packaging also have the potential to unnecessarily increase scope further in future and could benefit from further incubation in the WoT Interest Group rather than being Working Group deliverables However, we have found the core Thing Description specification produced by the Working Group to be very useful and have implemented a (modified version of) this specification in Mozilla's IoT platform <https://iot.mozilla.org/> which has now been in production for two years. We have gradually been converging our implementation with the Working Group's specification over time. We would therefore like to support the continued work of this Working Group to further improve that specification. The reviewer's organization intends to participate in these groups: - Web of Things Working Group The reviewer's organization: - intends to review drafts as they are published and send comments. - intends to develop experimental implementations and send experience reports. Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed at https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/wotwg2019/ until 2019-12-17. Regards, The Automatic WBS Mailer
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