Hi all,
As the meeting was rather shortly announced, there was little turnout with mostly Rikard and myself discussing things. So I suggest we take the rest to the mailing list.
1) Current State of IoT, XMPP and the IEEE group
We currently have a couple of IoT XEPs, namely XEP-0323, XEP-0324, XEP-0325, XEP-0326 and XEP-0347. Which nearly all have been automatically moved to Deferred state after a year of inactivity.
There is a IEEE Working Group working on an IoT standard, namely ISO/IEC/IEEE WD 21451-1-4, which make heavy use of XMPP technology, in the form of the Deferred XEPs.
At the recent XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium, there was a clear sign that the way the current IoT XEPs make use of XMPP is not ideal and could be improved by reusing existing XMPP XEPs.
Ideally the IEEE WG would like to see the XEPs move on in the standardisation process. However, in their current form this is unlikely and it is very likely that changes are required in response to potential Last Call for them to move forward.
Whether the current XEPs are advanced, or we come up with a new XEP that does things more in the XMPP way, it will require an author writing all this up.
Who would be willing to do that authoring work?
2) Setting up a liaison between the XSF and the IEEE WG
Up until recently, the larger XMPP community was unaware of the IEEE WG's use of the IoT XEPs for their standard. If we knew about this situation earlier, we might have avoided the current less ideal situation.
For the future, it would be ideal if we setup a liaison between the IEEE WG and the XSF, so that each side is informed about the current state and progress of their standardisation work.
Is there a person in the XSF or the XMPP community, who would be willing to act as such liaison?
Cheers,
Tobi