IRC log of wot-td on 2015-09-02

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meeting: Thing description task force
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chair: Sebastian
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agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wot-ig/2015Sep/0000.html
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Sebastian summarises the agenda for today’s call
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He shows us his idea for how to deal with an LED Lamp
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The metadata includes the datamodel, the name of the lamp, and communications metadata
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The action to turn the light on could also be modelled as a property.
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He presents his idea for a JSON-LD representation
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Sebastian has added metadata to allow a server to indicate which protocols it prefers
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He switches the screen to show some ideas for how the data model could be bound to CoAO
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s/CoAO/CoAP/
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Some question about how frequently given properties need to be sent
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Question: will Sebastian make his ideas available on github?
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Sebastian responds yes.
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Dave asks what HATEOAS means?
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XXX: it means metadata that allows ???
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s/XXX/MichaelKoster/
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So it means the communications metadata that end points need to select the protocols, data formats, encodings etc.
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right
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Michael: the metdata should be optional, i.e. you don’t need it in all cases
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You can cache it and its use may depend on the power of the client, etc.
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Sebastian talks further about metadata details
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Dave here a simpler example:
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A data model for your example could look something like:
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{
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“name” : “MyLED”,
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“properties”: {
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on: {
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“type” : “boolean”,
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“writeable”: true
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},
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“colorTemp”: {
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“type” : “uint16”,
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“writeable” : true
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},
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“red”: “uint8”,
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“green”: “uint8”,
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“blue”: “uint8”
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}
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}
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see https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wot-ig/2015Aug/0063.html
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Sebastian: in last week’s AP task force call Michael asked us to look at HATEOAS approach.
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Dave still doesn’t know what HATEOAS is and it would be great to have some more details
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Johannes: we are working on the plug-fest plans and need to define the metadata involved
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Johannes committed to set out a template for people to fill in and would send out last week
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Johannes will email a pointer ...
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with interactions at https://github.com/w3c/wot/blob/master/plugfest/interactions.md
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and protocol bindings at https://github.com/w3c/wot/blob/master/plugfest/binding_coap.md
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for CoAP
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Johannes presents the plug-fest draft info as per the above links
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He describes a means for scripts to monitor or cancel long running actions
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He then describes informal bindings to CoAP
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This is our idea for the plug-fest for you to comment on
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It would be good to have more people contributing to this
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Dave volunteers to add some info on bindings to Web Sockets and to HTTP
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This includes the question for how a server can push messages back asynchronously
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Johannes: newer versions of HTTP include a basic pub-sub model which could be useful
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Sebastian goes back to present his tutorial which he will post later
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Topic: Sebastian’s question about “observe”
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Sebastian wonders if it makes sense to be able to indicate that a property can be observed?
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Carsten: we have something like that in the CoAP LINK format, but it isn’t so useful
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If you are a client you can always use a GET with the observe option, so this is part of the protocol
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You might have a property that is changing and if so you can just ask for it.
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You have two different dimensions and it may be worth exploring that space some more
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Danh: in our work we use a pub-sub approach to properties
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Dave: I believe it depends on the details of the context and we need to study the use cases before we can have a meaningful discussion
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There is risk of mixing up perspectives at the application and transport layer and unless we clarify this, we risk constraining which protocols can be used for the web of things
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(Dave: That is the transfer layer, not the transport layer...)
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Carsten: the layers may need to be leaky, we will need to explore use cases to get a better feel
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Dave and Danh talk through the need for metadata at the transfer layer
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Sebastian: so we need to collect use cases to explore the question in more details
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Dave: I have an idea for a progressive elaboration of use cases in mind, but it will take time to work through
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Johannes: it seems reasonable to have metadata that indicates whether a given property is static or frequently changes
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Sebastian: so what is the resolution here?
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Dave: defer a decision, but allow people to experiment, let’s learn to walk before we learn to run
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Danh: JSON-LD allows you to add properties and clients can ignore the ones that they don’t know
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That’s the way RDF works
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Sebastian: so we will make Johannes’s static/frequently changing attribute as an optional piece of metadata
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s/make/treat/
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Sebastian: ideas for naming this attribute?
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Dave: how about “changes” with a value that is never, rarely, frequently? The details don’t matter as this is just experimental at this stage
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Danh: how about “frequency” with a float for time interval or Hz
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Carsten: for HTTP, you get a value that indicates how long a response is valid for
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This is used for caching
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We discuss the idea of giving an expiry time
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Carsten: it could be hours, seconds or milliseconds
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There is no infinity in JSON
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Dave: we could add infinity via the default context
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Sebastian will add a proposal for this
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present: Dave, Sebastian, Ari, Arne, Carsten, Danh, Hans, Johannes, KH, Takuki, Yingying
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