The comments I submitted on the WoT charter are archived at: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2016Oct/0004.html
-David On Friday 2016-10-14 15:03 +0100, Benjamin Francis wrote: > Hi David, > > We collected some feedback in a document > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jbZUgqFiJa_R5E3OxPduFSiVsmOYGSWw66VVLij9FyA/edit?usp=sharing> > and I'm going to try to summarise it here. Please let me know if you feel > this feedback is appropriate and feel free to edit it before sending. I > also welcome further feedback from this list if it can be provided in time. > > > > There were some concerns expressed around the clarity of the goals set out > in the charter and whether there has been sufficient research and > incubation in order to proceed with the drafting of specifications via a > Working Group. > > We propose 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 and a reduced scope around > methods for device discovery. We propose that the deliverables could 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. > > It is suggested 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. > > Mozilla welcomes the activity in this area but the charter as currently > proposed may need some work. > > > > > Let me know what you think > > Ben > > On 11 October 2016 at 02:52, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > > > The W3C is proposing a new charter for: > > > > Web of Things Working Group > > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2016Sep/0005.html > > https://www.w3.org/2016/09/wot-wg-charter.html > > > > Mozilla has the opportunity to send comments or objections through > > this Friday, October 14. > > > > Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should > > say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should > > support or oppose it. > > > > My initial reaction would be to worry about whether there's > > properly-incubated material here that's appropriate to charter a > > working group for, or whether this is more of a (set of?) research > > projects. W3C has an existing Interest Group (not a Working Group, > > so not designed to write Recommendation-track specifications) in > > this area: https://www.w3.org/WoT/IG/ . > > > > -David > > > > -- > > π L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ π > > π’ Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ π > > Before I built a wall I'd ask to know > > What I was walling in or walling out, > > And to whom I was like to give offense. > > - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > > -- π L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ π π’ Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ π Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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