W3C

– DRAFT –
WoT Profile

11 June 2024

Attendees

Present
Ege_Korkan, Kaz_Ashimura, Luca_Barbato, Tomoaki_Mizushima
Regrets
-
Chair
Luca
Scribe
kaz

Meeting minutes

Minutes

May-28

Luca: no concern

June-4

Luca: no problems

(both approved)

Project management

GitHub Team setting for Profile

Luca: Ben should be included in the GitHub Editor's Team for WoT Profile

Kaz: that's fine

Editors on the spec

Luca: need to update the Editors list on the spec
… should contact former Editors and ask them about their participation

Kaz: we should clarify the criteria
… we can talk about that during the main call again
… at least you should be listed as one of the Editors, though :)

Luca: right :)

Minor PRs

PR 414

PR 414 - Explainer update

Luca: this is an editorial change
… if we can get one more support, this can be merged

Mizushima: ok

Luca: please give support on the GitHub PR 414 too
… I can record that for you too

PR 412

PR 412 - Refine Motivation section

Luca: this is also editorial

diff - 1.1 Motivation

Kaz: on the PR, Luca asked McCool for review
… so we should ping him too

Mizushima: "Motivation" is important for the WoT Profile spec
… we should clarify what to be described within the Profile spec first
… it's hard for me to make decision at the moment without the clarification
… e.g., what kind of features to be standardized by the spec

Ege: one quick question for Mizushima-san
… didn't get your point

Luca: there is already an Explainer document which describes what WoT Profile is like

Explainer.md

Kaz: I think Mizushima-san's point is
… he does understand the high-level need for Profile described by the Explainer
… but still a bit concerned about the content of the Profile spec itself

Ege: ok
… I like the PR 412 itself
… the content of PR 412 is good
… on the other hand, I got a question about Profile in general

Kaz: in that case, let's merge PR 412 itself
… and then think about general questions about WoT Profile after that

Luca: yeah
… is that OK?

Ege: ok

Kaz: I think we can merge the PR 412 itself but should mention McCool is encouraged to let us know if any problems

Luca: ok

PR 414 - revisited

Luca: can be merged

Kaz: just to make sure, we should ask Ege to confirm it's OK before merging :)

Ege: looks good

Luca: btw, would like to have a standardized reference for Webhook too

General questions on WoT Profile

Mizushima: I don't think the current WoT Profile spec itself is wrong
… but we should clarify what to be described by the spec even clearer

Luca: we should make it sure everybody is on the same page
… would start with "1.3 Out-of-the-Box Interoperability"

<luca_barbato> https://w3c.github.io/wot-profile/#out-of-the-box-interoperability

Luca: this is one way to address Mizushima-san's concern

Ege: what is the "out-of-the-box interoperability"?

Luca: nicer and high level interoperability
… low-level connection methods like Bluetooth and Wifi have that kind of mechanism
… would like to ask Mizushima-san about which part of the document, specifically, this section "1.3 Out-of-the-Box Interoperability" is vague
… can I ask you to work on that as an action item?

Mizushima: I think the section "1.3 Out-of-the-Box Interoperability" is important
… but we should clarify the objective of the WoT Profile spec as a whole
… and then we should clarify the section "1.3 Out-of-the-Box Interoperability"

Luca: the section "1.1 Motivation" has been improved by Ben
… so which part should be still updated/improved how?

Mizushima: we should describe what kind of features are to be described within the Motivation section too
… list of features, e.g., HTTP, Webhooks and SSE

Luca: we provide an Editor's Note

NOTE
Of the Profiles defined in this specification, only the HTTP Basic
Profile is currently normative. It is planned that future versions of
this specification will normatively define the HTTP SSE Profile and HTTP
Webhook Profile, but in this version of the specification they are only
informative.

Luca: the Editor's Note can be changed in the future

Kaz: I'm OK with the current content of "1.1 Motivation" and "1.3 Out-of-the-Box Interoperability"
… but as I've been mentioning repeatedly, the bigger question from my viewpoint is the overlaps between WoT Profile and the other WoT specs
… so would suggest we work on refactoring for WoT Profile too as we're working on refactoring for TD/Binding

Luca: good question for the next meeting's agenda
… refactoring we can do for the next version includes possible restructuring of the WoT Profile spec
… e.g., making WoT Profile much simpler

Kaz: regarding the WoT Profile structure for the current version and the possible next version, we need to continue the discussion during the main call. right?

Luca: we can continue the discussion during the main call next week
… don't want to make new comers confused with "out-of-box interoperability"

[kaz needs to move to the next call]

Luca: let's continue the discussion next time

Ege: can clarify my point too

[adjourned]

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