Meeting minutes
Guests, New Members and IEs
McCool: we have a guest, Mahmood Afshari as an IE candidate
Mahmood Afshari's presentation
Mahmood: At Sigfox I was responsible for R&D and device engineering
Mahmood: But in 2019 for political issue the division closed and moved to Dubai to fund my startup
Mahmood: In 2022 I joined Softeq
… in 2024 I became the Head of Innovation and moved to Munich
… in 2025 I got promoted to Business Manager for Europe
Mahmood: I have expertise in IoT, Cloud and Digital Twins
Mahmood: In 2015 at Sigfox I was involved with Smart City, Industrial IoT,
… Smart Agricolture using LoRA
… Healthcare to monitor the location of patients and equipments
Mahmood: My involvement in WoT would be on the Use Case TF
Mahmood: My availability would be 5hours/week from June
Mahmood: Let me know if I can clarify anything
Ege: What is your view on having your company an official member?
Mahmood: I need to learn more and bring it to the company
Kaz: Thank you for your presentation
Kaz: Your expertise is welcomed, but W3C does not usually allow invited experts from private companies
Kaz: If we as the whole WoT-WG/IG would like to get his help as an IE, I need to talk with the W3C Membership Team, etc., and we might be able to provide a 6-month trial IE status.
Kaz: Firstly, we need to clarify if we as the whole WoT-WG/IG would like to invite him, and I can check within the W3C Team if needed.
Kaz: Please note that during the 6-month trial period, the Membership Team will contact your company to seek for the possibility of your company's Membership.
Minutes
<kaz> Apr-9
McCool: Anybody has any comments or corrections?
Use Case Handling
UC TF - Use Case and Requirements
<McCool> https://
McCool: <Present the process>
McCool: We want to motivate every feature in the spec with an user story
McCool: The User stories can cover multiple use cases
Daniel: The arrows can be flipped
McCool: will be fixed later
McCool: We will work through the process with the TD TF
McCool: <Present an example from the TD TF>
<McCool> https://
McCool: I'll give the floor to Ege to explain
David: Who writes the User Stories
McCool: Mainly the TFs
TD TF - Project Management process
<EgeKorkan> WoT Project Management Process
Ege: <Presents the flow chart>
<EgeKorkan> https://
Ege: The diagram is implemented in the linked project above
Ege: IN the best case we should have a document like the one produced for the Reusable Connection
<EgeKorkan> https://
McCool: David do you have questions now?
David: I agree with the process
David: My question is on how is going to write the user story, in my experience the technologist isn't the best suited to do that
David: Maybe the community group or have something like the plugfest but for interested parties
McCool: That's why we have Use Cases and User Stories
David: Your definition maybe is the opposite I had for Use Case and User Stories
<dezell> My point - I mixed the terminology between user stories and use cases, so I think I misled Ege in his answer. My concern is on breadth of input on the >less technical< work product (use cases for us)
Ege: We have to make sure we always links between the spec features and the real life needs
Ege: Let me show an example from the community group feedbacks
Sebastian: I probably missed how the User Stories fit in the diagram
<kaz> TD TF's "Current Process"
McCool: The diagram of the "Current Process" needs an update
Ege: It would be part of the Analysis block (3)
Sebastian: Do we need to invest the effort to prepare a User story for each small feature?
Ege: It can be few sentences in a dotted list
McCool: We need to have a clear record
Kaz: Thanks a lot for clarifying the current status and procedure of the Use Cases TF and the TD TF, McCool and Ege. I think we should confirm today that we as the whole WoT IG/WG would like the TD TF to work on the initial trial use case descriptions based on the new UC template which includes the user stories, and clarify when to start that. Then we should make a resolution about that.
McCool: We'll have a resolution next week
McCool: We have a big PR for Discovery, next meeting we should review it
AOB
(quickly checked the status of the other topics, e.g., OPC UA liaison and NGSI-LD liaison)/
[adjourned]