Meeting minutes
Guests, New Members and IEs
McCool: Mahmood Afshari - presentation scheduled for April 9, 2025.
… Koster chairing next week
Minutes review
<kaz> Mar-26
McCool: any objections to the minutes?
… no objections, minutes approved
Quick Items
McCool: summer time has started
McCool: I need to step down as WoT co-chair due to company needs
… we still have 2 co-chairs
… will still attend meetings
… will step down from Use Case TF also
… will continue with NGSI-LD for a while but we should find someone to take over
… Koster will take over the chair duties during April
McCool: there is an increased interest in AI and edge computing at Intel
Ben: thank you for everything you have done
Kaz: technically, the W3C Team need to make an official announcement, so please let me know about your concrete plan and dates later.
<dezell> Thanks very much, Michael. Nine years is a long time.
Meetups
WoT CG
Ege: the HiveOT presentation has some specific suggestions for the WoT standard
McCool: we should think about IoT devices as clients
… there could also be device shadow services
McCool: how do we capture what we learn from these events?
Ege: in the minutes and record
McCool: we could create an issue
Kaz: we should consider these suggestions as concrete input, using issues and use case process as needed
McCool: we could now open the use case process to external parties
Kaz: for today, we can create an issue for this specific question
<McCool> w3c/
McCool: (creates issue #1228 for capturing input from CG meetups)
WoT JP CG
McCool: we need a plan for the inactive WoT JP CG
Web based digital twin for smart cities
<kaz> Mar-24 minutes
Kaz: the interest group had a call on March 24th
<kaz> resources.md
Kaz: created and populated the resources directory
… reaffirmed that we will work on web based digital twins for smart cities
<kaz> announcement
Kaz: the next meeting is April 28th
… consistently on the last Monday of each month
Kaz: fyi, will join the ISO/IEC JTC1 workshop on April 25th to talk about smart city ontologies
McCool: this is also a big activity for the NGSI-LD group
McCool: is it an open workshop?
Kaz: will check with the organizer to see how to join
McCool: is there an agenda for April 28th?
Kaz: continue to work on resources. also would invite stakeholders from SDOs.
McCool: it would be good to invite the NGSI-LD people
Ege: there is a researcher looking for use cases for a streaming RDF protocol
Kaz: we should add this project to the Smart City IG resources
Cloud edge client coordination CG
McCool: this group is my new priority and aligns with the new work
Liaisons
McCool: any updates on Liaisons? need Sebastian about OPC liaison. didn't have NGSI-Liaison call this week.
Schedule
McCool: please let us know about holiday schedules
Policies
McCool: there are 2 PRs on policies
Policy adoption policy
McCool: first the policy adoption policy
… it was too complicated to use a separate directory for proposals
… the new policy policy is simple and reflects what we actually do
<kaz> PR 1227 - Update policy-adoption.md
McCool: we create PRs for new policy proposals in the policies directory, and discuss and update until we achieve consensus
McCool: any comments or changes?
McCool: would like to approve the new policy adoption policy today
… any objections?
… no objections, will create a resolution
<McCool> proposal: Merge w3c/
McCool: any objections ?
RESOLUTION: Merge w3c/
McCool: merged PR #1227
IE policy
<kaz> WoT PR 1226 - Update invited-expert.md to include time
McCool: the IE policy is next but needs a couple of changes
… added a time commitment to the requirement
Ben: don't think a specific number of hours per week is practical
McCool: it is ambiguous whether it is every week, or an average
McCool: we could have people state their time commitment, but not have a set number of hours
Ege: is some of this policy retroactive?
McCool: chairs can remove IEs if there is an issue with contribution
McCool: does the change look OK?
Ben: OK
<McCool> proposal: Merge https://
McCool: any objections?
RESOLUTION: Merge https://
McCool: merged
Profiles
McCool: Ben Francis would like to co-moderate the Profile TF
<McCool> proposal: Accept Ben Francis as co-moderator of the Profiles TF.
McCool: any comments or changes to the proposal?
Kaz: I'm OK with the proposal itself, but we need to clarify the procedure for moderator appointment
McCool: the procedure is a resolution by default
RESOLUTION: Accept Ben Francis as co-moderator of the Profiles TF.
McCool: any comments or objections?
<benfrancis> Proposed WoT Profiles Plan 2025 https://
Ben: the proposal is to restart Profiles meetings in May and decide how to proceed with Profiles 1.0
McCool: Any other business for today?
Ege: The logo for dark backgrounds is approved
McCool: adjourned