W3C

– DRAFT –
WoT-WG/IG

21 May 2025

Attendees

Present
Charith_Perera, Cristiano_Aguzzi, Daniel_Peintner, David_Ezell, Ege_Korkan, Josh_Thomas, Kaz_Ashimura, Kunihiko_Toumura, Luca_Barbato, Michael_Koster, Tetsushi_Matsuda, Tomoaki_Mizushima
Regrets
Sebastian
Chair
Koster
Scribe
jthomas, kaz

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review

<kaz> (no specific changes needed)

Minutes Review

<kaz> May-14

Koster: Any updates to the minutes?

Koster: call for objections to publishing with none voiced.

<kaz> (minutes approved)

Quick Items

Binding name

<kaz> Binding Issue 143 - "Protocol Binding" vs. "Binding Template"

Koster: have a call for resolution on user stories to ratify the change in the TD Task Force to change the name to contain Bindings.
… There was good conscious in the group for approval
… Call for resolution approval of the change presented by the TD Task Force

<mjk> proposal: Approve the TD Task Force resolution recorded in Issue #143

<kaz> Ege's message (Member-only)

<mjk> https://bms.ktcdev.se/#/flowchart/cfe2e366-28df-42dc-ac51-72d86f4aba8a/flowchart-editor

Koster: call for objection for approval of the resolution. None voiced so resolution approved.

RESOLUTION: The WoT Working Group agrees to change the name of the proposed registry from "WoT Binding Templates Registry" to "WoT Bindings Registry". The newly created repository should be changed to "w3c/wot-bindings-registry"

Profiles

Daniel: Mentioned a note from Ben that there was a change to publish it as a note.

Koster: does anyone have any objection on publishing it a s a note not a rec?

Koster: Call for resolution of publishing the WoT Profiles 1.0 Working Group by July 2025 as a note and the Use Case and Requirements by Oct 2025

Koster: Call for objections on the resolution. None voiced.

RESOLUTION: The WoT Working Group agrees with the resolution from the Profiles TF to publish the WoT Profiles 1.0 document as a Working Group Note by July 2025 and write Use Cases & Requirements for WoT Profiles 2.0 by October 2025.

Announcements

Koster: Any new announcements for the group today?

Koster: TPAC will be in Nov in Kobe
… meeting plans are in the github repo
… This will be discussed on the Plugfest call

Kaz: will create two Doodle polls, one for the Plugfest and another for the F2F discussion.

Meetup

WoT CG

Ege: there is a meetup on June 5th. We have new videos that are almost ready for release.

Smart Cities IG

Koster: Kaz and I joinged the smartcities meeting. They are working on their standards anthology. We have a good synergy between the two groups.

Kaz: in addition, we're inviting key stakeholders from related SDOs. Two of them, Torbjorn Lahrin and Mark Fox will join the next IG call on May 26.

Liaison

ECHONET

Koster: No news from Echonet, but they have some notes on TD's for multiple devices. How you make complex TD's for devices

Kaz: At this moment no concrete input yet. They are in use case discussion.

Conexxus

David: No news directly. We have some new companies joining the group that is working on the WoT profiles.
… We might discuss what we can do at the Plugfest
… Hopefully we will have a standard by then

OPC Foundation

Koster: They are still in the review process for the protocol binding to onboard devices.

ETSI ISC CIM

Koster: next meeting in early June
… its open to everyone if you are interested.

Schedule

<kaz> Holidays and Events

<kaz> (May 29: German public holiday)

Policies

Koster: still working on the moderator document

TF Leads

Koster: need some leads for Security, Discovery, Arch, and testing
… We need to discuss the Use case vs user stories. We are focusing on user stories to motivate features. The user stores guild the work and the use cases are higher level summaries.
… Use cases can be broad and few, and contain many stories
… Any other comments?

TF Reports

Scripting

Daniel: For scripting we don't have anything to mention on the main call. We are working on adaptations on actions.
… trying to figure out the async actions

Profile

Luca: Last week we setup the plan for the next weeks. Ben is unavailable so we have a plugfest call. We have a plan to work on the note for 1.0 and start working on 2.0.
… One item that is Luca is not set as an editor on the site.

marketing

Marketing

<EgeKorkan> Ege's message around Marketing updates (Member-only)

Ege: we have a PR that needs review.

<EgeKorkan> Marketing PR 522 - refactor: separate active/suspended TFs + add Profile

<EgeKorkan> https://deploy-preview-522--wot-marketing.netlify.app/activities/task-forces/

<EgeKorkan> https://deploy-preview-522--wot-marketing.netlify.app/activities/task-forces/tf-profile/

<EgeKorkan> https://deploy-preview-522--wot-marketing.netlify.app/activities/task-forces/tf-architecture/

<EgeKorkan> https://www.w3.org/WoT/activities/task-forces/

<EgeKorkan> https://www.w3.org/WoT/activities/task-forces/tf-architecture/

Ege: made changes to the pages to show the merging and changes to the task forces.

Daniel: Change Luca to editor, also we only see active/suspended on the main list not sub pages.

Kaz: We should make a resolution to approve the change, but we need to make some additional changes.
… Would it be ok to make an agreement to make this change and give you a request to update the contents a bit more?

<mjk> Proposal: The WoT Working Group approves the new layout for the Task Force summary web pages in this PR: w3c/wot-marketing#522

RESOLUTION: The WoT Working Group approves the new layout for the Task Force summary web pages in this PR: w3c/wot-marketing#522

ACTION: The WoT Marketing Task Force will update the content of the Task Force Summary web pages as needed

AOB

New participant

Ege: (mentions there was a new participant in the UC call, and they'll join the main call next week)

Plugfest call

Kaz: We'll start initial discussion about Plugfest during TPAC 2025 in Kobe right after this main call

Ege: let's start that 10 mins past the hour :)

[ main call adjourned; Plugfest call starts 10 mins past the hour. will use the same Zoom as the main call and a different IRC channel, "#wot-pf" ]

Summary of action items

  1. The WoT Marketing Task Force will update the content of the Task Force Summary web pages as needed

Summary of resolutions

  1. The WoT Working Group agrees to change the name of the proposed registry from "WoT Binding Templates Registry" to "WoT Bindings Registry". The newly created repository should be changed to "w3c/wot-bindings-registry"
  2. The WoT Working Group agrees with the resolution from the Profiles TF to publish the WoT Profiles 1.0 document as a Working Group Note by July 2025 and write Use Cases & Requirements for WoT Profiles 2.0 by October 2025.
  3. The WoT Working Group approves the new layout for the Task Force summary web pages in this PR: w3c/wot-marketing#522
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 244 (Thu Feb 27 01:23:09 2025 UTC).