Re: What to do with WoT Profiles 1.0

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 at 18:47, Ben Francis <ben@krellian.com> wrote:

> Actually the *Thing Descriptions* of profile-compliant Things *are* a
> subset of the TD 1.1 specification, at least with the current set of
> profiles. They have been carefully designed such that a Consumer which does
> not implement a given profile will just fall back to the defaults in the
> protocol binding template and the Thing will still behave as the Consumer
> expects.
>

BTW, if you are not convinced about this, please take a look at the Example
4 <https://w3c.github.io/wot-profile/#example-4> and Example 23
<https://w3c.github.io/wot-profile/#example-23> Thing Descriptions from the
WoT Profile specification and tell me:

   - Which parts of the Thing Descriptions are a superset of TD 1.1
   - Which affordances would confuse a generic TD 1.1 Consumer