10:57:15 RRSAgent has joined #wot 10:57:19 logging to https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-irc 10:57:26 meeting: 2nd WoT WG Charter Meeting - Day 3 10:59:36 present+ Kaz_Ashimura, Michael_McCool 10:59:53 McCool has joined #wot 11:01:47 present+ Ege_Korkan 11:03:23 ktoumura has joined #wot 11:05:11 cris_ has joined #wot 11:06:18 present+ Cristiano_Aguzzi, Kunihiko_Toumura, Michael_Koster, Sebastian_Kaebisch 11:07:26 mlagally has joined #wot 11:08:13 present+ Michael_Lagally 11:08:29 rrsagent, make log public 11:08:33 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:08:34 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:08:56 q+ 11:09:59 chair: McCool 11:10:11 q- 11:11:34 topic: Scribes 11:11:38 Cristiano and Ege 11:12:03 topic: PR list 11:12:11 mc: in order from easy to difficult 11:12:16 https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pull/44 11:12:19 subtopic: PR 44 11:12:30 mc: should be straightforward 11:12:44 ... add one line about collaboration for geolocation 11:12:52 q+ 11:12:53 ... any objections? 11:13:15 kaz: there still some old PRs in the old repository 11:13:25 q- 11:13:30 mc: we'll get back to it, adding it into the agenda 11:13:48 s/PR list/Review Issues, PRs and Status/ 11:13:59 mc: back to the PR any objections? 11:14:00 i/in order/scribenick: cris_/ 11:14:02 ... ok merge it 11:14:11 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:14:13 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:14:31 ... if you see a group missing re-open issue 27 and add it 11:14:51 i/Cristiano and Ege/scribenick: kaz/ 11:15:06 s/subtopic: PR 44// 11:15:16 i|pull/44|subtopic: PR 44| 11:15:19 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:15:20 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:15:38 s/there still/there are still/ 11:15:40 ... we decided to not mention horizontal review group 11:16:11 ... but the charter still contains two groups, do we keep them? 11:16:14 i|in order from|-> https://w3c.github.io/wot-charter-drafts/wot-wg-2023-draft.html Draft WoT WG Charter| 11:16:17 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:16:18 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:16:54 ... opening a issue about it 11:17:03 i|in order from|-> https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pulls PRs on wot-charter-drafts repo| 11:17:04 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:17:05 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:17:21 https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/issues/45 11:17:50 subtopic: Issue 36 11:17:53 https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/issues/36 11:17:59 mc: from Ege 11:18:00 i|PRs on wot|-> https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/issues/20 wot-charter-drafts issue 20 - Things to Fix| 11:18:01 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:18:02 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:18:08 Ege has joined #wot 11:18:23 ege: the main reason is that we talk a lot about CG collaboration 11:18:24 sebastian has joined #wot 11:18:40 ... I didn't mention website on purpose 11:18:59 ... this issue is just about taking into account cg feedback and social media coordination 11:19:00 mjk has joined #wot 11:19:09 ... social media is an open question. 11:19:27 ... there is a PR 11:20:21 -> https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pull/41 PR 41 - Expand WoT CG collaboration 11:20:25 mc: ok you added a couple of words 11:20:36 ... but you are not mentioning IG 11:20:48 ege: but this is just WG charter 11:20:50 mc: ok 11:21:12 mc: should we do it also for Japanese CG? 11:21:12 q+ 11:21:35 ege: yeah we can, I was thinking doing it myself but is not under my duties 11:21:48 mc: we can copy it and add traslations 11:21:57 q? 11:21:58 ... any other comments? 11:22:00 luca_barbato has joined #wot 11:22:09 kaz: it is vague 11:22:18 ... what do you mean by reports? 11:22:38 q+ 11:22:39 ... want do you mean about events? 11:23:02 ege: I meant specifications 11:23:25 ... regarding joint events, we can discuss it 11:23:40 present+ Ben_Francis 11:23:52 present+ Luca_Barbato 11:24:13 ... I just want to involve WG memebers to events easier 11:24:40 kaz: I understand but it is dangerous to mix it with the WG charter 11:25:10 q+ 11:25:13 ... the sentence is good, but I would not add events and social media 11:25:18 ack k 11:25:23 mc: do we really agree the "via" statment? 11:25:38 s/understand/understand your position as the CG Chair,/ 11:25:39 ... it is ok to remove it 11:26:18 q? 11:26:20 s/the sentence/the sentence before the "via" part/ 11:26:34 q+ 11:26:54 s/I would not add/I don't think we should specifically mention/ 11:27:02 ege: I'm ok not inclusive 11:27:07 s/social media/social media here./ 11:27:09 q+ 11:27:13 ack m 11:27:15 ack e 11:27:30 ... I just want to be sure that it will be a bidirectional collaboration 11:28:01 mc: it is about WG and commit to the collaboration 11:29:00 ... also is just collect and not acting on the reports 11:29:03 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:29:05 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:29:21 ... we can tweak it a little bit 11:29:40 q? 11:30:18 ca: agree with Ege. sort of collaboration to be put here 11:30:27 ... close collaboration with the CG 11:30:43 ... maybe could be moved out to another document, though 11:30:52 ack c 11:31:06 i/agree/scribenick: kaz/ 11:31:07 q? 11:31:48 kaz: yes, I understand. However, the charter is meant to describe the expectations in an abstract manner 11:32:00 q+ 11:32:09 ... the specific manner should be moved to other documents 11:32:51 ... the part after "via" is a little bit danger, why don't we discuss it later on about it? 11:32:53 ack k 11:33:06 mc: we can update the PR and review it later 11:33:09 s/danger/dangerous/ 11:33:35 ... I'm ok keeping reports or joint events 11:34:01 .... but social media should be removed 11:34:04 q? 11:34:51 q+ 11:34:53 ml: we have so many groups, but always the same people. Are we over engineering our process? 11:35:15 s/I understand/I understand your intention as the CG Chair/ 11:35:28 ... suggestion CG gather interesting use cases and implementations, IG analyze it, WG acts on the spec 11:35:34 s/expectations/expectations from the WoT WG side/ 11:36:26 ryuichi has joined #wot 11:36:32 ege: we can't bring CG presentations to IG, different patent policy. 11:36:55 ... and also we don't want to mandate WG people to join CG meetings but rather make it easy to them to join 11:36:56 s/the specific manner should be moved to other documents/further expectations from the CG side should be discussed more, e.g., during the WoT Marketing calls and can be put on another separate document on the CG collaboration./ 11:37:02 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:37:03 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:37:13 q+ 11:37:19 ack ml 11:37:24 ack E 11:37:32 ack k 11:38:28 subtopic: PR 48 11:39:06 s/48/43/ 11:39:13 -> https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pull/43 11:39:26 sk: a lot of ORGs here 11:39:48 ... but some of there don't exist or not holding discussion any more 11:40:10 q+ 11:40:16 ... my proposal is moving non-active Orgs to the wiki page 11:40:45 seb we lost you 11:41:19 q+ 11:41:29 mm: what about ITU-T? 11:41:48 sk: is still important but we've been not holding concrete discussions for a while 11:41:59 ml: think this is a good proposal basically 11:42:15 ... my comment is how to handle the IDTA 11:42:43 ... would keep both Platform Industrie 4.0 and IDTA 11:42:55 mm: what about ETRI? 11:43:00 q+ 11:43:03 ack ml 11:43:17 ack mc 11:43:38 kaz: ETRI is a W3C member, from Korea 11:43:45 ... they are getting more active recently 11:43:59 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:44:01 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:44:07 mm: he is the current list 11:44:20 i/understand your/scribenick: cris_/ 11:44:32 mc: CSA is new, for matter 11:44:33 i/a lot of ORGs/scribenick: kaz/ 11:44:44 i/ETRI is/scribenick: cris_/ 11:44:53 mc: we don't mention ETRI 11:44:57 q+ 11:45:06 seb: I will update it 11:45:19 kaz: we should ask ETRI representatives 11:45:41 ... if they want to be listed as liasion org or participants. 11:45:56 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:45:57 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:46:33 mc: they collaborated recently, we should include them 11:47:42 ... the PR cleaned also the text. Some English issues; we can fix those later 11:48:03 q+ 11:48:11 ... it took off Microsoft from the standard orgs 11:48:15 ... but that's fine 11:48:25 seb: I'd like to add it somewhere 11:48:26 q+ 11:48:43 kaz: we can include stronger industry collaborations 11:48:47 q+ 11:48:49 ack k 11:48:52 q- 11:48:55 mc: we can discuss in another PR 11:49:03 ... any objections to this PR? 11:49:07 ... ok, merging 11:50:33 s|we can include stronger industry collaborations|As I already suggested yesterday, we should explain our intention on "stronger industry collaboration" in the scope section first, and we should describe what to be done for that including not only SDOs but also projects and Member/non-Member companies.| 11:50:36 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:50:38 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:50:46 q- 11:54:38 ... ok merged 11:54:51 ... issue is not closed so that we can keep track of other liasons 11:55:17 ... issue 37 11:55:29 https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pull/42 11:55:30 ... you can use it for additional orgs 11:55:44 subtopic: PR 42 11:55:49 mc: new mission statment 11:56:01 ... draft status 11:56:06 s|https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pull/42|| 11:56:10 q+ 11:56:15 i|new mission|-> https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pull/42| 11:56:24 rrsagent, draft minutes 11:56:25 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 11:56:52 ... the PR adds two sentences 11:57:29 ege: it is not done yet 11:57:38 mc: do you want input now? 11:57:43 ege: we can wait 11:57:57 ... maybe just one point 11:58:11 q+ 11:58:42 ege: problems with how the process is described 11:59:16 ... it seems that is not working how it is described 11:59:30 q+ 11:59:43 mc: in practice we don't really follow it 11:59:49 q+ 11:59:54 ack seb 12:00:13 Mizushima has joined #wot 12:00:21 seb: I like the mission statement, what about add a reference to the previous charter? 12:00:45 ... also we can remove the last sentence, about Interest group 12:01:16 ... it is not realistic, it should be moved to IG charter 12:01:34 ack s 12:02:02 ben: I get the sense, but it is not clear on what do you want to achive 12:02:08 q+ 12:02:16 ... it raises more questions 12:02:17 q+ 12:02:30 ack b 12:02:30 ... what do you want the group to do? 12:02:37 q- Ege 12:02:37 ack b 12:02:38 qq+ Ege 12:02:43 ack e 12:02:43 Ege, you wanted to react to b 12:02:50 ege: what I want to say: the WoT can be a building block for other places as well 12:03:24 ... integration means that for example the TD can be used in other SDO 12:03:31 s/SDO/SDOs/ 12:04:22 mc: we had a resolution to emphasize industrial adoption 12:05:22 ben: words need to be clarified: industry and commercial 12:05:37 ege: for sure industry is not referring to industrial IoT 12:05:52 ... it is more a synonym for commercial 12:05:58 ack ml 12:06:41 ml: we are not talking about enhancing other standard. 12:06:46 ... should we mention this? 12:07:09 ... then we can state outreach instead of integrate with ecosystems and comunities 12:08:16 ege: enhancing part was already there, and I think we are doing it 12:08:21 q+ 12:08:35 ml: but it might be a little bit confusing 12:10:23 kaz: I don't agree with Ben, I got the impression that we all here have a strong industry collaboration 12:10:52 ... but we are not sure what include about these aspects in the charter sections 12:11:29 :) 12:11:38 s/I don't agree with Ben,/I tend to agree with Ben./ 12:11:55 s/I got the/To be honest, I got an/ 12:12:37 ack k 12:12:38 ack m 12:12:48 seb: should avoid to complicate everything 12:13:01 q+ 12:13:05 s/we all here have a strong industry collaboration/unfortunately, we as the whole WoT WG are not really sure about how to explain our expectations, though we all would like to think about better industry adoption./ 12:13:38 s/but we are not sure what include about these aspects in the charter sections/So we're not sure what kind of descriptions to be included here./ 12:13:41 q? 12:13:45 ack s 12:14:08 scribenick: Ege 12:14:14 q+ 12:14:36 rrsagent, draft minutes 12:14:37 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 12:15:15 sk: enhancing is a broad term, but we are indeed a complementary work that allows enhancing running systems 12:15:15 q? 12:15:15 mm: we should close the queue and discuss next steps 12:15:50 ack ml 12:16:13 ml: we can get comments like "Why do they not help us?" so we should be clear 12:16:19 mm: we can say "enhance the use of" 12:16:20 s/should avoid to complicate/should avoid complicating/ 12:16:48 q+ 12:17:24 ack m 12:17:49 mm: we can discuss further on this on the next main call, ege can you work on it 12:17:53 ek: yes sorry about it 12:18:14 kaz: to improve this PR, should people give comments here? 12:18:28 mm: I think so yes. Comments, suggestions to the text 12:19:09 kaz: we need a consolidated document 12:19:28 kaz: a native english speaker should modify the text at some point too 12:19:45 q+ 12:21:08 s/we need a consolidated document/Technically, that's a possible option, but given the current situation that we don't really have consensus on what to be put there, I'm not sure if that is the best option. Probably, we need another iteration anyway./ 12:21:14 sk: I don't think that we have a disagreement 12:21:20 ack k 12:21:22 ... we need to enhance to wording though 12:21:24 q+ 12:21:24 ack s 12:22:10 ack k 12:22:14 kaz: We can comment on the issue or PR but we need another iteration of this kind of discussion 12:22:51 mm: we have a wordsmithing problem we seem to agree on the direction 12:23:52 https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pull/39 12:23:53 topic: PR 39 12:24:12 mm: it addresses issue 24 12:24:16 s/but/ but GitHub is not an ideal tool for this kind of situation, i.e., everybody has slightly different ideas about "industry adoption"./ 12:24:45 s/we need/Using this GitHub PR to get some more opinions is fine, but we need/ 12:25:11 s/this kind of discussion/to get actual consensus./ 12:25:37 s/topic: PR 39// 12:25:45 i|39|subtopic: PR 39| 12:25:51 rrsagent, draft minutes 12:25:53 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 12:26:54 -> https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/issues/24 issue 24 - Consolidate Work Items 12:27:06 (McCool and Ege goes through the changes) 12:27:37 -> https://pr-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pull/39.html Preview 12:28:17 ek: added Protocol and Payload Bindings 12:28:19 q+ 12:28:47 mm: need to wait until Ege adds further clean-up 12:29:44 kaz: The PR 39 is confusing. We should have bigger categories 12:29:55 ... is this an intermediary step? 12:29:57 i/goes/scribenick: kaz/ 12:30:06 i/The PR/scribenick: Ege/ 12:30:50 mm: topics are cross cutting across deliverables 12:31:03 ... so as long as we have about 10 items, we should be fine 12:31:22 kaz: we should give the purpose of the items 12:32:54 mm: the structure is confusing that we have goals up there and then scopes later on 12:33:02 q+ 12:33:33 s/we should give the purpose of the items/After reducing the items within the Scope section, we need to explain what the WoT WG will do for the next Charter period so that all the AC Reps can understand it 12:33:36 ack k 12:33:48 q+ 12:33:51 mm: do we need additional level of categorization? 12:34:07 q+ 12:34:48 q++ 12:35:03 +1 for a bottom section explaining horizontal categories 12:35:20 ek: I dont think we need big categories but some explanation on what the work items are aiming for is fine 12:35:54 ml: we should have less details, this is too technical 12:36:07 s/understand it/understand it. Maybe we could put all the items into several higher categories when we explain what we want to work on. 12:37:06 q? 12:37:06 bf: I agree that all these support digital twins. Focusing the ecosystem wording is vague 12:37:08 ack b 12:37:10 ack ml 12:37:13 q- + 12:37:21 bf: ecosystem is a vague term in general 12:37:59 kaz: we need to explain what we want to do in the next charter period 12:38:27 kaz: it should be listed in the mission statement above 12:39:34 s/we need to explain what/To be clear, my point is not just adding high-level categories of our work items, but that we need to explain what/ 12:40:14 s/it should be listed in the mission statement above/It should be inline with the description within the mission statement above./ 12:40:19 rrsagent, draft minutes 12:40:20 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 12:41:44 mm: let's go back to the consolidation PR 12:42:18 q+ 12:42:33 mm: we are getting there but still a bit too many items 12:43:19 kaz: for now it is fine but I think that this cannot be sent to AC reviews 12:44:16 mm: any objections? 12:44:25 q+ 12:44:30 ack k 12:45:33 s/for now it is fine but I think that this cannot be sent to AC reviews/As an initial draft, merging this PR is fine. However, we need to explain our intention clearer rather than just listing detailed 13 items like this./ 12:45:44 ek: I dont think that we can squeeze this any further, we need higher level categories 12:45:53 mm: yes so we need higher level description 12:46:38 s/dont/don't/ 12:46:50 ack e 12:48:13 q+ 12:48:26 q+ 12:48:46 topic: PR 46 12:49:02 mm: I think that digital twin is a broad topic 12:49:18 i|I think|-> https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pull/46| 12:49:26 rrsagent, draft minutes 12:49:27 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 12:50:04 q- 12:50:33 q+ 12:50:43 +1 to McCool's comment on "Digital Twins" not being a good work item, but a general application area covered by other work items. 12:50:48 mm: so a bit too open ended 12:50:57 ack e 12:51:44 kaz: digital twin is a typical use case of WoT, so I agree with mccool and benfrancis comment on irc 12:52:51 mm: so not merging now. We should link to behavioral description standards 12:53:04 s/digital twin is a typical use case of WoT, so I agree with mccool and benfrancis comment on irc/Basically agree with McCool and Ben. Just mentioning "Digital Twins" as one of the work items here would be confusing. We rather should add high-level description on what we want to do./ 12:53:42 s/want to do./want to do, and we can mention Digital Twins as a typical application there. However, we still need to think about how to explain that there./ 12:53:54 ml: We need better linking to the physical entity 12:54:16 ack k 12:54:18 q+ 12:54:43 q+ 12:55:17 q? 12:55:22 I have to go. Please find here the slides about the protocol binding discussion of yesterday's TD / Binding TF call: https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/files/10745556/WoT_Binding_2.0.pdf 12:56:13 kaz: @@@ 12:56:52 q+ 12:57:23 mm: I dont think that we can do a behavior description in this 2 year period, we can only link to it 12:57:30 s/@@@/I'm getting a bit concerned because these items like "Behavioral Description" and "Digital Twins" would be big topics which would require yet another dedicated WG for each./ 12:57:32 ack k 12:57:35 ack ml 12:57:39 ack m 12:57:47 mm: we can let this be revised 12:57:53 * sorry mjk 12:58:22 mm: we should stop looking at PR 12:58:35 s/for each./for each. So we should be careful about what to be done by the WoT WG and how to describe that within the Charter./ 12:58:40 rrsagent, draft minutes 12:58:41 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 12:59:02 topic: next steps 12:59:06 s/topic: PR 46/subtopic: PR 46/ 12:59:08 rrsagent, draft minutes 12:59:09 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 12:59:27 q? 13:00:30 mm: wondering about the procedure 13:00:43 q+ 13:01:00 kaz: need to get preliminary reviews by W3M and Wide Review groups, then AC Review 13:01:32 ... think preliminary reviews would take one month or so, and AC Review may take 2 months 13:01:47 q+ 13:01:59 ack e 13:02:31 mm: can we use use cases and testing together with main call for the charter? 13:02:39 i/I'm getting/scribenick: kaz/ 13:03:02 mm: so let's commit to use case call at least 13:03:02 i/we can do/scribenick: Ege/ 13:03:04 ... I will send an email 13:04:32 ack k 13:05:16 kaz: given the situation so far, I got an impression that people don't really understand what level of description is needed for the Charter document itself./ 13:06:07 s|itself./|itself. So I don't think just using the GitHub Issues/Pullrequests to consolidated updated edits would really make sense. Probably we need to organize some more dedicated meetings as well.| 13:06:19 mm: yeah, making consensus takes time. 13:06:24 [adjourned] 13:06:31 rrsagent, draft minutes 13:06:33 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/16-wot-minutes.html kaz 15:02:45 zkis has joined #wot 15:29:05 Zakim has left #wot