W3C

– DRAFT –
6th WoT WG Charter Meeting - Day 3

16 March 2023

Attendees

Present
Ege_Korkan, Kaz_Ashimura, Kunihiko_Toumura, Michael_McCool, Ryuichi_Matsukura, Tomoaki_Mizushima
Regrets
-
Chair
McCool
Scribe
kaz

Meeting minutes

PRs

remaining PRs

McCool: (quickly goes through the PRs)

<McCool> w3c/wot-charter-drafts#89

PR 89 PR 89 - Add consumer description topics

McCool: related to detailed work item
… Ege, OK with closing this?

Kaz: as I've been suggesting, we could move this kind of technical problems to the other repo like wot-thing-description or simply wot

McCool: maybe it would be better to close this PR itself, and then create another PR on concrete work item for the "detail" document

Kaz: for the moment, that's fine
… but we need to consider moving this kind of detailed technical discussion to other repos once the Charter discussion is done

McCool: right

McCool's comment

PR 85 and 82

<McCool> PR 82 - Add Architecture as a normative deliverable

PR 85 - Add Architecture as an informative deliverable

<McCool> related Issue 16 - Architecture Restructuring

McCool: The bigger question is refactoring the specs in general
… not only Architecture
… we should work on the whole refactoring during the next Charter period
… Sebastian has agreed on keeping the Architecture spec normative
… so we can merge the PR 82 to make the Architecture spec normative
… the question is making the scope section inline with the plan on refactoring as well

Ege: ok

Ege: question about the procedure

Kaz: as described by the Process document (and as I also mentioned during the calls), three steps: (1) Wide reviews by TAG, I18N, A11Y, Security and Privacy based on the Strategy Funnel Issue, (2) W3M Review, and then (3) AC Review

Ege: ok

(PR 85 closed)

(PR 82 merged)

(Issue 16 closed)

New PR on spec refactoring

McCool: would like to create a dedicated PR to record the refactoring issue
… (adds some text on spec refactoring to the "Scope" section)

Kaz: I'm OK with this updated text within the Scope section
… but we need to improve the Mission and the Motivation sections to lead to this refactoring goal
… note that I also had been suggesting we think about the spec refactoring and asked all the Editors to work together for that purpose, but unfortunately we kind of failed to achieve that during the current Charter period. So I think we need to think about how to achieve the refactoring seriously for the next Charter period.

McCool: right
… (directly commit the change to wot-wg-2023-draft.html wrongly, but that's OK)

wot-wg-2023-draft.html

Update and Refactor Existing Specifications:
The WG will add new features, address issues discovered during implementation of already published specifications, and reorganize material between documents as appropriate. Unlike the last charter, these would not be limited to backward-compatible updates.

Issues

Issue 80

Issue 33 - TD and TM restructuring

McCool: marked with "Deferred" since it's not directly related to the Charter

Issue 33

Issue 33 - TD and TM restructuring

McCool: would like to mark with "Deferred" or close it
… TD TF agreed to leave TM in the TD spec

(closed)

Issue 61

Issue 61 - High Level Scope Description for TD and Binding

McCool: also should be closed

(closed)

Issue 14 and 65

Issue 14 - Confusing use of the term "protocol binding"

Issue 65 - Move IG Relationship from Mission Statement to Collaboration

McCool: can leave them open

PRs - revisited

PR 66

PR 66 - Move IG mention to collaboration section

McCool: two points here

Put WoT groups in a section of their own under collaborations
Move IG to the top, to emphasize its special status

McCool: second part is easy
… so we can merge the second part quickly
… but need further discussion around the first point

Ege: need further discussion

McCool: ok, let's keep this open
… and have discussion as Lagally as well

PR 87

PR 87 - Update wot-wg-2023-draft.html - Revised Introduction

diff

McCool: (goes through the diff)
… have many problems with the proposed changes...

Ege: wondering about "Common Model" here

McCool: there're various data models for IoT purposes like OneDM
… but what we're doing is not really a "Common Data Model"
… so don't think we can merge this as it is
… next the Motivation section has proposed addition highlighted by yellow

Kaz: agree with McCool, though we do need improvement for the Mission and Motivation sections.
… I'm personally OK with the original Mission statement.
… but think the Motivation section should describe we'd like to tackle WoT deployment within the actual IoT scenarios and ecosystems

McCool: yeah, the current proposed text for the Motivation section is just a summary of the Scope section
… (adds some comments on PR 87)

McCool's comments to PR 87

PR 88

PR 88 - Revised scope section, reordered, clarified language

diff

McCool: (goes through the diff)
… need some more improvement
… maybe taking out the signing part, etc.
… OK with the description within "Support New Use Cases"

Kaz: you can add comments to PR 88
… also we should clarify what "reusable external security vocabularies"

McCool: yeah
… anyway don't think we can merge this now

Kaz: given we just have one more minute, we need to think about how to proceed now

McCool: maybe we need one more week to finalize the Charter
… small changes for Mission, Motivation and Scope
… don't want to expect too many changes

Kaz: which slot to be used for that discussion?
… we should make an announcement to the group too

McCool: would like to use the main call for that purpose

Kaz: what about the Architecture call slot?

McCool: would see the need during the main call

Ege: a bit concerned about "scalable events"

McCool: let's have discussion including Lagally

[adjourned]

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 210 (Wed Jan 11 19:21:32 2023 UTC).