Call for Use Cases & Requirements

Dear Web Thing Protocol Community Group members,

Firstly, thank you for expressing an interest in this group and for your
patience. My intention had been to kick off this group a lot sooner, but a
change in my affiliation caused a delay.

As a reminder, you can view our Community Group page at
https://www.w3.org/community/web-thing-protocol/. A W3C rep has kindly
created a GitHub repository for us  at
https://github.com/w3c/web-thing-protocol and I have therefore moved our
charter into that new repository which can now be viewed at
https://w3c.github.io/web-thing-protocol/charter/

I am writing to invite your contributions to define use cases and
requirements for the Web Thing Protocol, before we start to work on the
specification itself. I have written a first draft of a use cases and
requirements document in order to start that conversation
https://w3c.github.io/web-thing-protocol/requirements

This draft of requirements is based on my experience of designing the Web
Thing API (https://iot.mozilla.org/wot/) at Mozilla and subsequent
discussions in the W3C WoT Interest Group & Working Groups. I would very
much value your input on whether this represents a sensible set of
requirements, whether there are some use cases and requirements that I've
listed that should be out of scope, and where there are missing use cases
and requirements I haven't thought of.

I welcome you to respond by email on this mailing list, or ideally file
issues on the GitHub repository
https://github.com/w3c/web-thing-protocol/issues with comments and
suggestions.

I look forward to working with you.

Ben

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Ben Francis
Founder
Krellian Ltd.