Re: Planning to close Web Thing Protocol Community Group due to inactivity unless we hear from you

Hi CG/BG System,

Thank you for the heads up.

I'm the Chair of the Web Thing Protocol Community Group.

You are correct that there has been little activity in the group since
September 2022. Since our meeting at TPAC last year I have been waiting:

   1. To receive any further feedback on our use cases and requirements
   <https://w3c.github.io/web-thing-protocol/requirements/> document before
   publication
   2. To wait to see which (if any) of those requirements might in fact be
   satisfied by the W3C WoT Profile <https://github.com/w3c/wot-profile>
   specification from the W3C WoT Working Group

It has now become clear that:

   1. The WoT Profile specification will definitely not satisfy our
   proposed requirements for a WebSocket sub-protocol
   <https://w3c.github.io/web-thing-protocol/requirements/#websocket-sub-protocol>
   2. The WoT Profile specification will not satisfy our proposed
   requirements for an HTTP Sub-protocol
   <https://w3c.github.io/web-thing-protocol/requirements/#http-sub-protocol>
   within the current charter period of the WoT Working Group
   3. Incubation by this group of a WebSocket sub-protocol in particular
   would be welcomed by the WoT Working Group, and could potentially form part
   of a future profile specification published by that group

I therefore plan to propose a resolution to publish our use cases and
requirements document in full, and begin work on a Web Thing Protocol
specification imminently, starting with satisfying the WebSocket
sub-protocol requirements, with the intention of publishing it as a CG
Report.

My company has also now started work on both a client and server
implementation which we intend to act as one implementation of that
specification, and we have interest from at least 12 other participants to
take part.

I hope that this explains the recent inactivity and is enough to reassure
you that this group should remain open.

Best regards

Ben

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 at 18:28, Team Community Process <
team-community-process@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear participants in the
>
>   Web Thing Protocol Community Group
>   https://www.w3.org/community/web-thing-protocol/
>
> Your Community Group appears to have become inactive (per [1]). W3C plans
> to close this group in 10 days unless we hear compelling reasons from you
> to keep it open.
>
> Thank you,
>
> CG/BG System
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#close-inactive
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