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

Hello again CG/BG System,

On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 at 17:58, Team Community Process <
team-community-process@w3.org> wrote:

>
> Your Community Group appears to have become inactive (per [1]).
>

This group should not be considered inactive according to that FAQ:

   - There are more than 3 participants
   <https://www.w3.org/community/web-thing-protocol/participants>
   - There is a Chair
   <https://www.w3.org/community/web-thing-protocol/participants>
   - There has been activity in the GitHub repository
   <https://github.com/w3c/web-thing-protocol/commits/master/> within the
   past six months


> If your group is in fact active, we ask that you respond to this email
> with answers to these two questions:
>
> * Is your group publishing any Specifications?
>

Yes.


> * What is the group's expectation about future standardization of
>   those Specifications at W3C or at some other standards body?
>

As explained in our Use Cases & Requirements Community Group Report
<https://www.w3.org/community/reports/web-thing-protocol/CG-FINAL-web-thing-protocol-requirements-20231101/#introduction>
:

"...The Web Thing Protocol specification itself, or subsections of it, are
intended to eventually join a standards track at the W3C or another
standards body such as the IETF."


> We also recommend the following:
>
> * Let us know where the activity is going on so that we can update our
>   data and improve our tools.
>

   - GitHub Repo <https://github.com/w3c/web-thing-protocol/>
   - Mailing List
   <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-thing-protocol/>
   - Google Docs
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KWv-aQfMgsqBFg0v4rVqzcVvzzisC7y4X4CMUYGc8rE/edit?usp=sharing>

Having received feedback on the Strawman Proposal
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KWv-aQfMgsqBFg0v4rVqzcVvzzisC7y4X4CMUYGc8rE/edit?usp=sharing>
for the Web Thing Protocol WebSocket Sub-protocol and have now started work
on the more formal Community Group Draft Report which can be found at
https://w3c.github.io/web-thing-protocol/


>
> * Update your group home page with news of your activities.  Chairs
>   can use the group Wordpress instance of the group to post news
>

Thank you, we will.


> If would like us to close the group, or if we do not hear from you in
> the next 30 days, we will plan to close the group.
>

We would like to keep the group open please.

Many thanks

Ben

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Ben Francis
Chair, Web Thing Protocol Community Group