Call for Use Cases & Requirements for WoT Profiles 2.0

Dear WoT Working Group, Interest Group and Community Group members,

The Profiles task force of the WoT Working Group are now collecting use
cases & requirements for WoT Profiles 2.0, with a view to writing a first
draft of a Use Cases & Requirements document by the end of this month (31st
October), which can then be refined over the following months.

As a reminder, the current definition of a Profile in WoT Profiles 1.0
<https://w3c.github.io/wot-profile> is "A technical specification which
provides a set of assertions such that any Consumer which conforms with the
those assertions is out-of-the-box interoperable with any Thing which also
conforms with those assertions." We hope to refine this definition for
Profiles 2.0, and take a more structured approach
<https://github.com/w3c/wot-profile/issues/285> to defining what Profiles
can and can't constrain.

In order to propose a use case or requirement, please navigate to
https://github.com/w3c/wot-profile/issues and click "New issue", then
choose either "Use Case" or "Requirement".

*Use Cases*

Use cases should take the form of a user story...

*As a [type of user] I want to [goal] so that [reason]*

A use case is a concrete use that you have for Profiles as a developer or
end user of the Web of Things, which may be specific to a particular
application domain. You may want to add additional context or background
information underneath the structured user story sentence to explain why
the use case is important to you and what considerations need to be taken
into account.

*Requirement*

Requirements should take the form...

The specification shall/shall not... (if the requirement applies to the WoT
Profiles specification itself)

or

Profiles shall/shall not... (if the requirement applies to individual
Profiles)

Requirements are specific and testable technical requirements you think the
Profile specification should fulfil, or you think should be explicitly out
of scope. Requirements should be derived from use cases.

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To kick off the process I have filed issues
<https://github.com/w3c/wot-profile/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22use%20case%22%2C%22requirement%22%20author%3Abenfrancis>
for an initial set of proposed use cases & requirements
<https://github.com/w3c/wot-profile/pull/417> based on my own
implementation experience, business needs, strawman proposal
<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wot-wg/2024Feb/0000.html> for
Profiles 2.0, and the task force discussion so far. However, it is very
important that we hear from a diverse set of stakeholders from a range of
different application domains in order to make the WoT Profiles 2.0
specification as widely useful as it can be.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Kind regards

Ben

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Ben Francis
Co-moderator, Profiles Task Force
Web of Things Working Group