[apps-discuss] draft-nordman-classification (was: Minutes for AppsAWG and Apps Area General Session, IETF 82)

[Graham Klyne <[e-mail]>]

On 14/11/2011 04:35, Barry Leiba wrote:
> I've posted minutes on the meeting materials site.  Find them here:
> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/82/minutes/appsawg.txt

Re:
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11:20 Basic Device Classification (Bruce Nordman) - 5 min
    draft-nordman-classification

Looking for assitance/comment/collaboration.
Want to make a registry for generic device "names", as known by humans.
"computer", "projector", that sort of thing.
question about properties vs names, and what the use case is.
question about behaviour of devices, related to proerties vs names.
answer: Not addressing functional aspects of the devices.
question: Why is "what they are" useful?  Unclear on purpose.
CORE could use something like this, but needs *types*, rather than names.
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My first thought was: "OMG, are the IETF going to do ontologies now?" :)

I'm ambivalent whether this activity is of value in an IETF context - I'm not 
seeing it yet.

But some thoughts did occur to me:
(1) the discussion may be not-unrelated to recent discussion of top level MIME 
types (font/*, etc.)
(2) there are some other past activities that could relate to this
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3458.txt - "Message Context"
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2506 - "Media features"

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