Fwd: Workshop Report: W3C Workshop on the Web of Things

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> From: "Coralie Mercier" <coralie@w3.org>
> Date: 8 August 2014 10:53:13 BST
> To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
> Subject: Workshop Report: W3C Workshop on the Web of Things
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> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
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> The report from the Web of Things workshop [1] is now available:
>    http://www.w3.org/2014/02/wot/report.html
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> This was a two day workshop hosted by Siemens with 120 participants from across the World. The agenda featured 20 talks, 10 breakout sessions, 14 demos and 3 panel sessions. The report contains a summary of each of these. W3C staff participation was supported by the EU-funded Compose project [2].
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> There was broad agreement at Workshop of the problems that currently face the Internet of Things. Until now, the focus has been on the devices and communications technologies. There is a growing awareness that the business opportunities will be centered on the associated services, moreover, the current situation is one of fragmentation with products being developed in isolation due to a plethora of IoT protocols and a lack of a shared approach to services.
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> Rather than focusing on the IoT layer, it is now critical to focus on what is needed to open up the markets for applications and services that sit on top of the IoT. The workshop attendees showed strong support for W3C to initiate new standards work to help realize the huge potential for the Web of Things as a web scale layer sitting above the IoT.
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> The workshop examined the opportunities for open Web standards for service platforms in the network edge (e.g. home gateways) and the cloud, along with the challenges for security, privacy and the integration with the Web of data.
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> The workshop gave a strong message of support for W3C to initiate work on standardization for the Web of Things. The foundations include RESTful HTTP and pub-sub protocols, but the detailed requirements vary across the use cases, e.g. for latency, throughput, transactional robustness and so forth. Building upon these foundations, the workshop identified the need for standards for Web APIs that abstract away from the protocols, including the wide range of IoT technologies used at the network edge to connect to sensors and actuators. Through standardization, we can encourage re-use of APIs and data models.
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> The closing session of the workshop raised a proposal to launch a W3C Interest Group. The existing W3C Web and TV Interest Group provides a model for what we can expect for the Web of Things Interest Group. It has established requirements and handed work off to existing Working Groups or launched new Working Groups where appropriate.
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> The W3C staff will drive the process of chartering the Interest Group through reaching out to a wide range of interested stakeholders. This consultation will seek to clarify the mission for the Interest Group, the target topics and industry priorities, and opportunities for liaisons with other related standards development organizations. Some initial ideas for the scope are included in the workshop report.
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> We welcome your general expressions of interest and support on <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>. Please copy any substantive comments in response to this email as appropriate to <w3c-archive@w3.org>, which has a Member archive [3]. If you wish to make your comments public, please use <www-talk@w3.org> (archive [4]).
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> For more information please contact Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>.
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> A formal Advisory Committee Review of the Web of Things Web IG charter is expected later this year.
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> Coralie Mercier, W3C Communications
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/2014/02/wot/report.html
> [2] http://www.compose-project.eu/
> [3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/
> [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/
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> Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
> mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/
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