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WoT-WG/IG Meeting + 7th WoT WG Charter Meeting - Day 1

22 March 2023

Attendees

Present
Cristiano_Aguzzi, Daniel_Peintner, David_Ezell, Ege_Korkan, Kaz_Ashimura, Kunihiko_Toumura, Luca_Barbato, Michael_Koster, Michael_Lagally, Sebastian_Kaebisch, Tomoaki_Mizushima
Regrets
McCool
Chair
Sebastian
Scribe
cris, kaz

Meeting minutes

Sebastian: welcome to the main call

guests

Sebastian: no new members

minutes

<kaz> Mar-15

Sebastian: remember we are currently in day light saving mode, therefore we set all the meeting for one hour early
… next week everything will be back to normal operation
… we also postpone the testfest
… we talked also about developer meeting and the social impact questionnaire
… we use the main call time to talk about WG charter too
… there still some few PR to optimize the content of the charter
… mainly to attract new members
… found a mistake in the minutes, issue 28 was actually a PR
… finally we talked about remaining issues
… we have still to look at issue 14
… with a related proposal from Ben
… any comments?
… ok minutes approved

Quick updates

Use case policy discussion

Sebastian: is this already clarified?

Kaz: I added this point to the agenda
… I want to have that added to the use case call agenda, and have further discussion during the use case calls. We don't need to talk about this now.

Lagally: I need a generic conversation about use case details need to be present
… the conclusion is we make this a dedicated agenda item
… in a next use case call

Kaz: yes, just please start from that next time

Lagally: agreed

Testing

Dev Meeting

Sebastian: we need to make progress to our open gaps
… at least two implementations
… there is a developer meeting planned for next week
… there is a document where you can find more details

<sebastian> Dev Meeting logistics

<Ege> https://www.w3.org/WoT/IG/wiki/WG_WoT_Thing_Description_WebConf#Thing_Description_.2815_mins.29

Ege: I prepared two slide decks about the details of each assetions

<sebastian> Google Doc for Architecture

Ege: presentation is public and you can give comment

<sebastian> Google Doc for TD

Kaz: we should update goals on the logistics page. Also we should clarify when to have what based on McCool's proposal on the main wiki.

Ege: we will discuss about it in the testing call

Sebastian: meeting is planned for one hour
… do we need more time?
… next week we might focus only on TD assetions
… after TD is done we can focus on Arch
… finally discovery for the week after
… keep this suggestion in mind for the testing call
… one hour is not enough

Lagally: we would need the arch call next week, there are some points that we have to finish

Sebastian: ok let's discuss the Charter part later during the Charter agenda item.
… any other points?
… there is also a joint meeting planned with JP community group
… they need clarifications about the at-risk features before the meeting
… Ege's slides should help here

Kaz: I spoke with JP community chair, I want to stress the need for clarifications about at risk features. Especially about what they really mean.

<Mizushima> +1 kaz

Kaz: context and editor intention need to be explained.

Sebastian: would be ok to talk about it during the meeting

Kaz: that's why we should hold two dev meetings separately, one for TD first, and another for Testing (as McCool proposes here)

Sebastian: should we make resolution here?

Kaz: we can

Lagally: suggest to make a resolution here
… usually there are no many head count in the testing call
… we can make a resolution about the basic plan now, and think about the details on the logistics later during the Testing call. discuss details in the testing call

<sebastian> proposal: the developer meeting will be split in 3 seperate meetings: Use Dev meetings Mar 28/29 to review TD assertions, Use Arch call Mar 30 to finalize Dev review material for Arch, and Use Discovery calls Apr 3/10 to prep Dev review material for Discovery

Kaz: Let's say "global developer meeting" for this resolution. Probably the JP version meeting will be also split into 3 meetings but we can make a resolution for the global one now.

RESOLUTION: the global developer meeting will be split in 3 seperate meetings: Use dev meetings Mar 28/29 to review TD assertions, use Arch call Mar 30 to finalize Dev review material for Arch, and use Discovery calls Apr 3/10 to prep Dev review material for Discovery

Sebastian: Ege, please organize further details in the testing call

Ege: ok

Testfest

Sebastian: planned for 3 days
… 1h meetings
… seems there is a problem in the timing table in the agenda

Lagally: test fest week is during easter vacation break in some countries - may have limited attendance

Sebastian: there will be public holidays
… but not a big impact on our calls

Lagally: just keep in mind that people might take vacation

binding meetup

Sebastian: do we need some of our group join this meeting?

Kaz: We can organize another meetup event with the WoT CG guys, and I thought Ege was working on that.

Schedule

<kaz> Schedule

Sebastian: we have some delay in our plan
… we have not completed the charter review
… is not ready to be submitted
… there is the reason why we updated the time table

<kaz> PR 1083 - Adjust dates for new charter in schedule

Sebastian: do you think the new schedule is reasonable?

Kaz: the proposed updated schedule, is fine. We should be aware that our schedule is getting tighter and tighter. We need to follow it.
… for this reason we might need to prioritize work and use other task force calls to finish up undone items
… sacrificing only arch and profile is not fair

Sebastian: I agree
… maybe we can do some charter discussion in today's TD call
… maybe it make sense to have a look regarding the issue of binding naming

Kaz: I agree, we should be careful not to put detailed discussion in the charter itself
… also if possible we should not only arch call but TD call too. Just keep in mind that it might be too late for some geographic areas.
… we can use other calls like security call and scripting API call

Ege: in the TD call I allocated 30 min for charter discussion

Cristiano: we can use scripting too
… just keep in mind that we have to move our deadline for the pubblication of scripting API doc

Sebastian: ok not really useful for US and JP

Kaz: we can make preliminary decisions today
… and then propose it to McCool, Ben, etc.

Lagally: we can use 30 min of tomorrow's Arch call

Kaz: remember that we don't need to work out all the existing issues on Github
… we just need to decide what should be included and what not.

<sebastian> proposal: to do the charter discussion we should spend time in today's TD call (about binding topic), 20min in tomorrow's Arch call, and use the complete scripting call session

RESOLUTION: to do the charter discussion we should spend time in today's TD call (30min about binding topic), 20min in tomorrow's Arch call, and use the complete scripting call session

Sebastian: going back to the schedule is that ok to merge it?

Kaz: please be aware the procedure would be wide review as with the specification around one month, then W3M review around 2 weeks, then AC review around one month.
… at the minimum.

Charter PRs

Sebastian: please review the list and provide your feedback

<kaz> remaining issues marked as "WG New Charter Plans 2023"

Ege: the PR92 and PR93 have implications of the next profile document
… it would be nice to have Michael Lagally in the call

Lagally: I can't but we can talk about it tomorrow in the architecture call

Kaz: among those five remaining issues, protocol bindings issues have potentially to much detail
… I am ok with the current wording within the normative deliverable section and the informative deliverable section.
… this discussion should happen first before any low level detail

Sebastian: maybe we can decide to postpone the detailed discussion

Questionnaire

Sebastian: first proposal from McCool
… PR ready

<sebastian> wot-architecture PR 897 - Societal Impact Questionniare

Liaisons and collaborations

Sebastian: no news on the Liaisons
… waiting for w3c for the response to the MOCA for OPC liaison.

Ege: FYI, WoT CG update. Sick AG will present a digital twin solution using WoT

<Ege> https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/e72912b5-3087-440e-950e-886acbab645d

<Ege> https://github.com/w3c/wot-cg/discussions/13#discussioncomment-5335831

Ege: and next up we have Siemens and Microsoft
… with their use cases about WoT

Sebastian: no other updates?

(none)

[adjourned]

Summary of resolutions

  1. the global developer meeting will be split in 3 seperate meetings: Use dev meetings Mar 28/29 to review TD assertions, use Arch call Mar 30 to finalize Dev review material for Arch, and use Discovery calls Apr 3/10 to prep Dev review material for Discovery
  2. to do the charter discussion we should spend time in today's TD call (30min about binding topic), 20min in tomorrow's Arch call, and use the complete scripting call session
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 210 (Wed Jan 11 19:21:32 2023 UTC).