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

Hi Ben,

Thank you very much for the helpful update and good luck with the work; we won’t close the group. 

All the best,

Ian

> On Mar 7, 2023, at 6:28 AM, Ben Francis <ben@krellian.com> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>     • 
> To receive any further feedback on our use cases and requirements document before publication
>     • To wait to see which (if any) of those requirements might in fact be satisfied by the W3C WoT Profile specification from the W3C WoT Working Group
> It has now become clear that:
>     • The WoT Profile specification will definitely not satisfy our proposed requirements for a WebSocket sub-protocol
>     • The WoT Profile specification will not satisfy our proposed requirements for an HTTP Sub-protocol within the current charter period of the WoT Working Group
>     • 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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Received on Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:00:32 UTC