W3C

– DRAFT –
WoT-WG/IG

10 September 2025

Attendees

Present
Ben_Francis, Daniel_Peintner, David_Ezell, Ege_Korkan, Kaz_Ashimura, Kunihiko_Toumura, Michael_Koster, Michael_McCool, Tomoaki_Mizushima
Regrets
Sebastian
Chair
Koster
Scribe
kaz

Meeting minutes

Guests, IEs

Koster: IE request from McCool

(to be reviewed during the Chairs call)

Kaz: also McCool is a guest for today

Minutes

Sep-3

Koster: (goes through the minutes)
… any corrections/updates?

(none)

approved

Quick items

Profile

Koster: thought we had got proposal for Profile last week
… publishing the draft as a WD would be able to avoid extra work

<benfrancis> Proposal: The WoT Working Group agrees to publish the current Editor's Draft of Web

<benfrancis> of Things (WoT) Profiles as an updated Working Draft.

<benfrancis> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wot-wg/2025Sep/0005.html

Ben: sent an email about the proposal to the list
… not 100% happy myself given the 6-mo hard work
… but need to follow the W3C Process
… anyway, good to publish a well-polished document

Koster: yeah
… thank you for your work!
… any objections?

(none)

RESOLUTION: The WoT Working Group agrees to publish the current Editor's Draft of Web of Things (WoT) Profiles as an updated Working Draft

<benfrancis> w3c/wot-profile#446

Ben: btw, there was a problem about the obsolete HTTP reference
… a PR available as above

Kaz: you can quickly show the changes, and we can quickly merge that :)

Ben: (shows the changes)

Koster: ok, we can merge this now
… any objections?

Daniel: that's OK
… but same problem with Discovery as well
… so we should work on this for the other specs too

Koster: ok

(no objections to merge PR 446 itself)

merged

TD Publication Status

Ege: added the information to the agenda as a separate section

TD stauts

Transition Request for TD 2.0 FPWD

Ege: the transition request has been already approved
… but we forgot to confirm the shortname for that purpose
… that is "wot-thing-description-2.0"
… is that OK?

proposal: the WoT-WG would like to use "wot-thing-description-2.0" as the shortname URL for TD 2.0 publication

Koster: any objections?

Daniel: just wondering different pattern from our previous notation...

Ege: can understand what you mean
… we used to use "wot-thing-description11" for 1.1

<EgeKorkan> https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-thing-description10/ for 1.0

<EgeKorkan> https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-thing-description11/ for 1.1

Kaz: yes, the change was the conclusion of the TD-TF :)

Ben: just wondering about the redirection mechanism, but OK with the proposal

Koster: any objections for the resolution?

(none)

RESOLUTION: the WoT-WG would like to use "wot-thing-description-2.0" as the shortname URL for TD 2.0 publication

Transition Request for Registry

proposal: the WoT-WG would like to use "wot-binding-registry" as the shortname URL for WoT Binding Registry

Ege: transition request has been updated but we need to confirm the URL for this too

Koster: any objections?

(none)

RESOLUTION: the WoT-WG would like to use "wot-binding-registry" as the shortname URL for WoT Binding Registry

Ege: regarding Binding Templates Note, we've already agreed to publish it as a retired Note
… just working on the "retired style"

updated Note

Use Case Planning

McCool: we spent today's call to polish the UCR document

<McCool> w3c/wot-usecases#387

McCool: as an invited guest, created a PR for further improvement
… should be much cleaner now

Koster: what kind of action is expected?

McCool: would get a review by people

Kaz: tx for your hard work
… However, please remember that we as the WoT WG/IG need to be careful to get input from outside of the groups
… Also we need to consider possible big change of the WoT WG Charter due to our plan of merging the IG work into the WG
… so wondering until when we need to merge this PR
… before TPAC?

McCool: would be ideal to merge this before TPAC
… btw, it might be cleaner to publish this as an updated IG Note before the merger of the IG

Kaz: ok
… so we as the whole group would like to ask everybody for review

McCool: right

Koster: ok

Kaz: yeah, publishing an updated UCR note including the updated template and background description would be better

Koster: ok, let's start the review
… anything else?

(none)

Schedule

Holidays and Events

Koster: (quickly skim the list there)

McCool: less available after the end of August
Sebastian: unavailable on Sep 10-11
Ege: unavailable Sep 17-18, Sep 24 only via phone.

Koster: anything else?

New Charter

Koster: we were talking about 3-mo as our expected extension
… but given the holidays around year end, should we ask for 6-mo extension instead?
… that wouldn't hurt anything

Kaz: yeah, 6-mo would be safer

David: yeah, also would go for 6-mo
… just wanted to know about the mood

Kaz: we can easily get a 6-mo extension :)

David: ok

<Zakim> dezell, you wanted to hear from Kaz about the mood.

Koster: any objections?

(none)

RESOLUTION: We will ask for a 6 month extension to the current Web of Things Working Group charter

AOB

Kaz: if people want, we can have some discussion about the Plugfest plan after the main call

Koster: yes, let's keep the Zoom call open, we can start the next call in 5 mins

[adjourned]

Summary of resolutions

  1. The WoT Working Group agrees to publish the current Editor's Draft of Web of Things (WoT) Profiles as an updated Working Draft
  2. the WoT-WG would like to use "wot-thing-description-2.0" as the shortname URL for TD 2.0 publication
  3. the WoT-WG would like to use "wot-binding-registry" as the shortname URL for WoT Binding Registry
  4. We will ask for a 6 month extension to the current Web of Things Working Group charter
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