Re: Proposal: Web Thing Protocol Community Group

For the record, there are several independent proposals for how to use Web Sockets which should form part of the discussion wherever it takes place.

> On 17 Sep 2019, at 07:45, Ege Korkan <ege.korkan@tum.de> wrote:
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> Hi Ben,
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> I am still having the opinion that this topic could be covered in the protocol bindings task force, which would be more than happy to have you onboard! There we can talk of defining the default http/ws protocol binding which could be named as the Web Thing Protocol. We can have a separate document but this would look like "yet another standard" from my point of view.
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> In the meantime, I have found this draft from you: https://iot.mozilla.org/wot/ <https://iot.mozilla.org/wot/>
> It seems to be up to date and referencing the W3C WoT Thing Description. However, it is still using the Mozilla way of doing things and not really using the W3C WoT Thing Description and defining a new "Thing Description". Moreover, I couldn't find a way to write issues or discuss things, thus the email. Is this a preliminary version until the Community Group is formed?
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> Best regards,
> 
> Ege
> 
> 
> On 09/16/2019 03:52 PM, Benjamin Francis wrote:
>> Dear WoT IG/WG members,
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>> I'm writing to announce the proposal <https://www.w3.org/community/blog/2019/09/16/proposed-group-web-thing-protocol-community-group/> of a Web Thing Protocol Community group.
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>> The purpose of this group is to complement the work of the IG and WG by defining a common protocol for communicating with devices over the web, to enable ad-hoc interoperability on the Web of Things.
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>> This work is intended to complement or extend the WoT Thing Description <https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-thing-description/> with a WebSocket sub-protocol, as well as the evaluation of other potential Web of Things protocol bindings.
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>> Please see the proposed Web Thing Protocol Community Group Charter <https://benfrancis.github.io/web-thing-protocol-charter/> for more information. I welcome your feedback and invite you to support the group <https://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/> via the W3C's website.
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>> Best regards
>> 
>> Ben
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