W3C

WoT-IG/WG

08 September 2021

Attendees

Present
Daniel_Peintner, David_Ezell, Kaz_Ashimura, Kunihiko_Toumura, Michael_Koster, Michael_Lagally, Michael_McCool, Ryuichi_Matsukura, Tetsushi_Matsuda, Tomoaki_Mizushima
Regrets
Sebastian
Chair
McCool
Scribe
dape, kaz

Meeting minutes

Minutes review

Sep-1
… no objections -> minutes approved

Quick updates

McCool: DIoT Workshop
… travelling might be problematic
… issue on WoT page 28 oct Sept 2 should become Sep 27-Oct 1

McCool: Joint session with WoT Japanese CG?

Kaz: Not planned but the item has been added to the vF2F wiki's "not scheduled" section :)

TPAC 2021 planning

McCool: need to confirm the dates
… grab extra day(s) for open day(s)
… interesting for new companies
… Need to decide on times also
… need to fill in topics
… wiki (with dates et cetera) will be updated by Friday
wiki
… please let me know if you encounter issues with the tables and dates
… Oct 5 and 7 we have vF2F
… suggest to have open day in week October 11 to October 15
… in week October 25 to October 29: vF2F and Joint Meetings
… we also have breakout table for the week from October 26 to October 30

McCool: I updated F2F planning section
… suggest to create issue (and labels) for issues
… we use https://github.com/w3c/wot/issues repo

Lagally: Beneficial to follow-up with automotive?

McCool: Agree, let's add Automotive to groups to meet
… any other group?

Kaz: Automotive working on APIs and Ontologies, so would make sense to have joint discussion

Kaz: joint discussion about streaming data makes sense
… talk about possible use-cases with MEIG
… and Web Transport

Lagally: I can reach out to Automotive (I have 1 contact)

McCool: DID and VC same group?

Kaz: different groups

McCool: To all: reach out to groups
… having said that, we might need more time
… otherwise we would need other slots
… can figure out problem later

Lagally: On groups meetings. Does it make sense to have tentative goal?
… idea of an agenda? possible outcome

McCool: Suggest to create issue with proposed agenda

Kaz: Can re-use template from last year

McCool: Exactly
Template
… we might also link the issue from wiki

Kaz: w.r.t. JSON-LD
… JSON-LD is in maintenance mode
… maybe talk with DID and JSON-LD experts at the same time

McCool: I see

Kaz: I can talk to MiniApp group

McCool: OK

Kaz: Suggest to add "WoT Japanese CG" also

Kaz: wonder whether we can make extra *free* week (October 11 to October 15) as open week or not

McCool: Yes, meetings with external groups

McCool: We might need to setup a Doodle
… or use the same slots again as in the other weeks

McCool: need to choose 2 x 3-hour sessions (6 hours in total)

Kaz: will create Doodle

McCool: Need to have resolution for the dates

<McCool> proposal: adopt the proposed schedule as follows: Plugfest Sept 27-Oct 1; vF2F Oct 5, 7, 27, 28, 29; and Joint meetings Oct 25-29

<McCool> proposal: adopt the following schedule: Plugfest Sept 27-Oct 1; vF2F Oct 5, 7, 27, 28, 29; and Joint meetings Oct 25-29

Resolution: Adopt the following schedule - Plugfest Sept 27-Oct 1; vF2F Oct 5, 7, 26, 27, 28; and Joint meetings Oct 25-29

McCool: will update https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2021/GroupMeetings by Friday

Charters

Kaz: final draft online, see https://www.w3.org/2019/10/wot-ig-2019.html
… no objections from the horizontal groups, so we'd move ahead.
WG

McCool: let's continue the discussion on the WG Charter.

Smart Cities

Kaz: no updates
… I'll update the draft Smart Cities IG Charter, and also will organize breakout session

Testing

McCool: Ege is still not back but I plan to have testing call

McCool: we may discuss PlugFest topics
… rather short meeting
… repo exists, see https://github.com/w3c/wot-testing/tree/main/events/2021.06.Online
… need to get organized
… what about VPN?

Kaz: We should clarify logistics in Testing call
… VPN should be still available on AWS server

Liaisons

McCool: Any updates?

Kaz: need to respond to ITU-T

McCool: Who can do that?

Kaz: I am happy to respond
… including their request on a joint webinar with ITU-T

McCool: Okay, let's organize a joint meeting with them for that

McCool: w.r.t. OGC
… we will likely have a joint session with OGC and IEEE P2874 and ECHONET
… maybe also joint sessions with
… ECLASS
… OPC UA
… ISO TC184/SC4

McCool: Let's use the label "external" for these joint meetings

AOB

<McCool> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4IaTOn8n74

McCool: The Netzo WoT Platform brings IoT technologies together and empowers anyone to build cutting-edge solutions from a single place. Built with flexibility in mind, Netzo makes it easy for users and businesses to jump-start and future-proof their digital transformation.

TF Reports

Security

McCool: Where do signatures belong to?
… discussed that

McCool: probably will be handled by IETF
… let's spin off the Signature work at WoT as a separate Note
… and make it non-normative
… and then let's see what would happen on the IETF side
… we could refer to their generated standard at some point possibly
… would have a dedicated repo for that purpose
… aob for today?

(none)

[adjourned]

(5min break and then Plugfest call)

Summary of resolutions

  1. Adopt the following schedule - Plugfest Sept 27-Oct 1; vF2F Oct 5, 7, 27, 28, 29; and Joint meetings Oct 25-29
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 136 (Thu May 27 13:50:24 2021 UTC).