Web of Things Working Group charter extended until 30 September 2023

Dear members of the Web of Things Working Group,

I'm relaying the announcement to the group's primary public mailing list 
to notify the group of its charter extension.

Best regards,
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  VOTE by 2023-08-31/09-01: Proposed Charter for the Web of 
Things Working Group; Current Charter Extended
Date:  Thu, 3 Aug 2023 14:58:42 +0800
From:  xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

This is a Call for Review of a proposed recharter for the Web of Things 
Working Group:
https://www.w3.org/2023/08/wot-wg-2023-draft.html

Please review the charter and indicate your support using this online form:
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/wotwg2023/

The deadline for responses is 03:59 UTC on 1 September 2023 (23:59, 
Boston time on 31 August 2023)[0].

The mission of the Web of Things Working Group is to counter the 
fragmentation of the Internet of Things (IoT) through the specification 
of building blocks that enable easy integration of IoT devices and 
services across IoT platforms and application domains.

The proposed new charter:
* Simplifies the description on the group scope.
* Adds further clarification on the motivation and background.
* Updates the descriptions on the normative deliverables: Architecture 
(Update) , Discovery (Update) , Thing Description (Update) , Profile and 
Profile (Update).
* Updates the list of the coordination on W3C groups and external 
standardization organizations based on the recent situation.
* Proposes to add Michael Koster to the co-Chairs.

The proposed team resource for this group is from 0.3 to 0.2 FTE.

Current participants will not need to re-join the group if the new 
charter is approved.

To see all changes relative to the current charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2022%2F07%2Fwot-wg-2022.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2023%2F08%2Fwot-wg-2023-draft.html

The current charter [1] is extended until 30 September 2023 to 
accommodate the charter review period.

More information about the group can be found on its home page [2], 
including information about group Chairs, Staff Contact, and 
instructions for joining the group.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
Kaz Ashimura, W3C Team Contact for the Web of Things WG, at ashimura@w3.org.

The horizontal review of the charter is available as a Strategy Github 
repository issue:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/375

This charter review and extension follow sections 4.3 and 4.5 of the W3C 
Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20230612/#CharterReview
https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20230612/#charter-extension

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, W3C Strategy and Project Lead,
Kaz Ashimura, Web of Things WG Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

[0] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230831T2359&p1=43
[1] https://www.w3.org/2022/07/wot-wg-2022.html
[2] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/wot/