Web of Things Interest Group Revised Charter Approved: join the Web of Things Interest Group (Call for Participation)

Dear members of the Web of Things Interest Group,

I'm relaying the Call for Participation to the Interest Group's 
primarily public mailing list, to notify the group of its Revised 
Charter Approved.

Best regards,
Xueyuan



-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Web of Things Interest Group Revised Charter Approved: join 
the Web of Things Interest Group (Call for Participation)
Date:  Mon, 1 Aug 2016 22:43:45 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org
CC:  chairs@w3.org



Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
Chairs,

The Director is pleased to announce the re-charter of the Web of Things
Interest Group:

    http://www.w3.org/2016/07/wot-ig-charter.html

The revised charter updates the list of deliverables and extends the
group until 31 December 2018. The mission of the Web of Things Interest
Group is to counter the fragmentation of the Internet of Things by
introducing a Web-based abstraction layer capable of interconnecting
existing Internet of Things platforms and complementing available
standards. We aim to reduce costs through the global reach of Web
standards, to enable open markets of services, and to unleash the power
of the network effect. As a W3C Interest Group, we are seeking to build
a shared understanding of the Web of Things, and to identify
opportunities for initiating standards track work within W3C working
groups. Liaisons between W3C, industry alliances and standards
development organizations are already in discussion for two critical
areas: semantic interoperability and end-to-end security across
different platforms.

Please use the following form to join the group; the form will also
instruct you how to nominate participants:
    http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/75874/join

Current participants are not required to rejoin this group because as an
Interest Group, there are no requirements for W3C Patent Policy
licensing commitments by participants in respect to the group's
deliverables.

The Interest Group chair is Jörg Heuer (Siemens). The W3C Staff Contacts
are Dave Raggett, Kazuyuki Ashimura, and Yingying Chen for a total of
0.4 FTE.

More information about the Interest Group can be found at:
    http://www.w3.org/WoT/IG/

[...]

This announcement follows section 7.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
    http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 5.2.4 of the W3C Process
Document:
    http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#cfp

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philipp Hoschka, Ubiquitous Web Domain Lead, and
Dave Raggett, Kazuyuki Ashimura, and Yingying Chen, Web of Things
Interest Group Staff Contacts;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications