Potential topics for the Web of Things Community Group

This is a brain dump of some ideas and intended to start a discussion on 
the potential scope and roadmap for the proposed community group.

  * Dissemination: facilitating exchange of ideas between research groups

  * Use cases: the collection of easy to understand use cases that 
motivate technical discussion on requirements and proposed specifications.

  * Requirements

  * Existing specifications we can learn from

  * Security and resilience

  * Privacy and trust

  * Provenance

  * Scalability

  * Monitoring and management of services

  * Sticky policies for access control and privacy preferences

  * Payment models for services

  * Linked data and vocabularies for the Web of Things

  * The role of personal zones for managing devices and services

  * The extension of zones for use in enterprise and public settings

  * RESTful services built around HTTP

  * JavaScript APIs for virtual objects

  * Biological metaphors for perception and actuation

  * Overlay networking architectures

  * Peer to peer and scale free networking architectures

  * Registration and revocation of services

  * Discovery of services

  * Composition of services

  * Reputation management

  * Push, pull and streaming models for data

  * Real time services

  * Historic data

  * Datamining and big data

The above is very broad, so we will need to focus on some much more 
specific goals if the Community Group is to be effective. An 
evolutionary perspective could be appropriate, where we focus on just 
the minimal set of things needed to stimulate an ecosystem of services, 
that will then expand in scope and complexity over time, just like the 
Web has done since its inception in the early nineties.

What kinds of services do we anticipate for the early adopters?
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Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett

Received on Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:28:56 UTC