Re: [WoT WG] Release of WoT WG Charter Draft extendend until next week

Dear WoT Interest Group,

Further to the Mozilla Corporation's recent formal feedback on the proposed
WoT Working Group Charter archived here https://lists.w3.org/Archives/
Public/www-archive/2016Oct/0004.html I would like to offer some more
specific but informal feedback as a member of the "Connected Devices" team
at Mozilla.

Firstly, apologies that this feedback is coming quite late in the review
cycle of the charter but Mozilla have been ramping up their efforts in the
IoT space for the last 9-10 months or so and we have recently become very
interested in the WoT approach to the Internet of Things.

I'd suggest the charter could benefit from a reduced scope, a more
lightweight approach and a simplified set of deliverables. This might
include a simpler initial data model with a reduced set of metadata and a
default encoding without a dependency on RDF (e.g. plain JSON), the
specification of a single REST/WebSockets API for interacting with Things
and a reduced scope around methods for device discovery. I propose that the
deliverables could potentially be reduced down to a single specification
describing a Web of Things architecture, data model and API and separate
notes documenting bindings to non-web protocols and a set of test cases.

I'd suggest that the WoT Current Practices
<http://w3c.github.io/wot/current-practices/wot-practices.html> and WoT
Architecture <https://w3c.github.io/wot/architecture/wot-architecture.html>
documents referenced in the charter are not currently a good basis on which
to build a specification and that the member submission
<http://model.webofthings.io/> from EVRYTHNG and the Barcelona
Supercomputing Center could provide a better starting point.

We very much welcome the activity in this area but we think the charter as
currently proposed may need some work as the goals are arguably not clearly
defined and the scope potentially quite large.

We are currently ramping up our efforts towards what could in future become
another implementation of this Web of Things API and data model and so
members of the Connected Devices team would be interested in participating
in this effort more in future.

Best Regards

Ben

On 30 August 2016 at 20:23, Heuer, Joerg <Joerg.Heuer@siemens.com> wrote:

> Dear WoT IG,
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> in the last week, unfortunately quite short before the submission
> deadline, we discussed with the charter / white paper split and initial
> chair proposals quite significant topics which we had not on the radar
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> To make sure that we have sufficient time to reflect and review the
> proposals we should shift the release of the charter to the W3M / AC review
> and conclude on a joint approach in the above mentioned issues.
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> Please make sure that you review and contribute your comments to the
> documents referenced below [1] [2] before Thursday EOB so we can discuss
> those in the upcoming webconf.
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> Please also provide comments and proposals for chairs. For this we should
> keep in mind how to handle the discussed parallel setup of the IG and WG.
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> To limit if possible the delay on the WG charter release for W3M / AC
> review to one week, we have to schedule a webconf before the one of the W3M
> next Wednesday. Matthias has volunteered to setup a Doodle for this to ask
> for your availability this Friday and next Tuesday.
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> BR
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> Joerg
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> [1] The draft Working Group charter is on GitHub at:
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>           https://w3c.github.io/wot/charters/wot-wg-2016.html
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> [2] The draft white paper is at:
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>           http://www.w3.org/2016/08/wot-white-paper/
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> Your feedback is welcome on the WoT IG public or member mailing list.
> Ideally, you open an Issue on GitHub and label it with the orange “WG
> Charter”:
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>             https://github.com/w3c/wot/issues/new
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