Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description 1.1 2021-01-26 > 2021-04-15

[sebastiankb]

• name of spec to be reviewed: Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description 1.1

• URL of spec: https://w3c.github.io/wot-thing-description/

• What and when is your next expected transition?

  • The CR transition is planned for mid-April, 2022

• What has changed since any previous review?

  • this is the first submitted version for Thing Description 1.1
  • the change log to the Thing Description 1.0 can be found here

• Please point to the results of your own self-review (see https://w3c.github.io/apa/fast/checklist.html)

  • please see https://github.com/w3c/wot-architecture/blob/main/publication/ver11/accessibility.md

• Where and how to file issues arising?

  • As an issue in our GitHub, please

• Pointer to any explainer for the spec?

  • An overview of the Web of Things and the role of the Thing Description can be found here

Other comments:
Currently the 2nd WD document is being prepared for publication. When this is done, I will update the link. Until then, the current editorial draft can be used for review.

Many thanks :-)

[michael-n-cooper]

https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/wiki/Web_of_Things_(WoT)_Thing_Description_1.1

[sebastiankb]

May I ask about the status of the review? We saw there is a new entry at this wiki page. Would be great to get a rough idea when you would start the review. Many thanks

[michael-n-cooper]

@sebastiankb I checked in APA today, it overlaps with other actions we had open and the plan is to circle back next Wednesday. I'll keep it on my pressure list with them.

[sebastiankb]

@michael-n-cooper thanks for sharing the status.

[michael-n-cooper]

APA discussed this today; there is a question that might lead to a comment, but the question isn't worded yet :P I'll keep pushing them.

[michael-n-cooper]

The question reference above was sent last week, though not to WoT lists, let me know if it should be forwarded.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-apa/2022Apr/0032.html

[sebastiankb]

Please note that I have updated the issue with a link to the results of the self-review for all Web of Things (WoT) deliverables which also involve Thing Description 1.1..

[mmccool]

We did discuss the question in the above email (which is about integration with voice assistants) and this was in the back of my mind during some of the updates to the accessibility questionnaire answers. However, there was no specific question about voice assistant integration in the questionnaire. What we probably should do is address this with some use cases in our Use Cases and Requirements document and consider how to support voice integration better in some future deliverables. I responded to the email and am copying my response below (I did update my mention of a specific voice assistant to a category since they all kind of work the same):

I looked into [voice assistant] integrations a while ago and my understanding is that some code needs to be written and uploaded to a [voice assistant] service to integrate [a voice assistant] with a cloud service supporting an IoT device for it to work. WoT TDs expose a standardized interface so in theory some “middleware” code could be written to allow ANY IoT device described with a WoT TD (aka Thing) to be integrated into [a voice assistant], and WoT Discovery allows TDs to be accessed via search mechanisms (which [voice assistant] middleware could, in theory, also support). However, we have not written up this use case or prototyped it, and doing it “properly” would involve some work, and it needs for the IoT device to be visible on the public internet (local connections alone are not sufficient; and there are security implications to making them visible on the internet); but it is possible. We should probably explore what it would take to do this in our next charter, and see if there are any gaps we need to fill (such as metadata in TDs supporting voice interactions).