Re: [Bnbsg] IoT Theme for IETF 90 Bits-N-Bites Program

[Alexa Morris <[e-mail]>]

Alex, Pascal,

Thank you both for providing such detailed and helpful responses. Unfortunately, I have to admit that almost all of what you are saying is over my head, but I will attempt to catch up! 

I’d like to compose a message to send to the 6lo, 6tisch, RoLL, lwig, ACE and Core mail lists, and I want to make sure that I capture the spirit of what you are saying without making my mail too broad or unfocused. Because of that, it would be extremely helpful to me if we could spend 20 minutes with the BnB Steering Commitee on the phone in order to flesh this out a bit more  — ideally within the next week, simply because we have a tight schedule to manage. Ray has indicated that Monday is the only day next week that may be workable for him, so I’ve created a Doodle poll for this Monday the 28th here: http://doodle.com/sa38wvvuiz7srgnq. 

In addition, I would be very grateful if you would consider joining the BnB Steering Committee for this IETF 90 planning cycle, or at least while we are in the theme-refinement and messaging stages of planning for the event. If you are willing, then I will add you to the BnB Steering Committee mail list. I’ve copied the BnB Steering Committee on this email, and am tossing out the following questions and ideas to everyone for their comments:

1) Many of the companies mentioned in your emails are not regular IETF participants (e.g. Nike, Honeywell) and, because of that, I am wondering if enticing them to participate may be challenging.  Does anyone have thoughts on that? 

2) Stephanie performed a quick audit of the relevant mail IETF lists and noticed that there is a lot of university participation in the IoT area. I think it would be interesting to hear what some of these folks have to say; however I also think it’s unlikely that a university is going to have the budget to spend on a BnB participation fee. Perhaps we can look into sponsorships for this if any universities are interested. Chris Griffiths once mentioned that Dyn would consider sponsoring the participation of another organization, and I think that other companies may feel the same way. Comments? 

3) Giveaways. I’d like to consider devoting a small portion of our BnB budget to giveaways that are appropriately themed (i.e. IoT devices). Not sure what they would be but am thinking of things like the Belkin WeMo (http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C027/) and the Spotter (https://www.quirky.com/shop/609-spotter-multi-purpose-sensor) which are both $50. For the big prize, we could do something like a Nest Thermostat or a FitBit or Jawbone. I welcome ideas here. And then in order to encourage people to visit the tables, we might manage it so that you only get to enter your name for a prize if you’ve got a stamp in your “BnB Passport” from each exhibitor’s table. 

Alexa


On Apr 22, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Alexandru Petrescu <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Le 22/04/2014 18:26, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) a écrit :
>> Hello Alexa:
>> 
>> Thanks a bunch for contacting me;
>> 
>> 
>>> 1) What IoT technologies are most appropriate to showcase at BnB?
>>> What would be both interesting and practical in terms of
>>> implementation?
>> 
>> There's a hot topic on IPv6 ND registration and its application to
>> build multilink subnets, in particular interconnecting such as 6TiSCH
>> mesh networks over a federating backbone and the sort of scalability
>> you can get with that model. This exemplifies the integration of the
>> classical IPv6 world and its evolution to cope with wireless,
>> scalability and mobility, which are all required in IoT applications.
>> We made a demo at the last IETF and could extend that next time.
>> 
>>> 2) Who would be the right people to engage? What  companies or
>>> organizations are doing interesting things in this space and so
>>> might want to participate?
>> 
>> Ideally we'd invite people serving Industrial MACs to make the demos
>> (Nivis / Centero, Linear Technology / DUST networks) and the MAC
>> themselves to attend (Honeywell, Emerson, Yokogawa, Schneider,
>> Rockwell, Siemens ...). The idea would be to close the gap between IT
>> and Operational Technology and foster the rise f the industrial
>> internet.
> 
> I agree, industrial-focused MAC layer manufacturers are good candidates for demo events of connected things.
> 
> Also the manufacturers of an ever richer offer of Things such as toothbrush (company "beam"), wrist bands (nike, withings), wrist watches (Samsung, Apple), home mother (company "sense"), vacuum cleaner ("iRobot") and doublerobotics.com (products of this latter having already shown up at IETF).
> 
> One would consider the incumbent operators focused on IoT and M2M (operators "Neul" and "Sigfox").
> 
> One would consider existing cellular phone operators who have developped M2M-specific businesses (in France operators "Orange", "SFR", "Bouygues" each has such an arm).
> 
> Ericsson Nokia and Nike are not new but they also have interests and prototypes in connected Things.
> 
> SAP in Switzerland is a huge player in IoT.
> 
> Alex
> 
>> Is that the sort of idea you are after?
> 
> Yes I wonder the same.
> 
> Alex
> 
>> 
>> Pascal
>> 
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Alexa Morris
>>> [mailto:[e-mail]] Sent: jeudi 17 avril 2014 23:19 To:
>>> Pascal Thubert (pthubert); [e-mail]; Alexandru
>>> Petrescu; [e-mail]; Thomas Watteyne Cc: Stephanie McCammon; Ted
>>> Lemon; Ray Pelletier Subject: IoT Theme for IETF 90 Bits-N-Bites
>>> Program
>>> 
>>> Carsten, Pascal, Thomas, Alison, Alex,
>>> 
>>> I'm contacting you all because you were recommended as people who
>>> have knowledge in the Internet of Things space. The IETF
>>> Bits-N-Bites program is officially going forward in Toronto and the
>>> theme for the event is IoT.  We are still figuring out how to
>>> organize BnB around a central theme (which we've not done to date)
>>> and we really want this program to showcase things that will be of
>>> genuine interest to our community.  Based on the feedback we've
>>> received from both past participants and IETF attendees, we are
>>> striving to increase the emphasis on actual technical
>>> demonstrations.
>>> 
>>> We also want to develop a more focused method of targeting
>>> potential participants so that we can get the right organizations /
>>> companies in the room. I asked Ted Lemon for some suggestions on
>>> who we should involve, and he recommended all of you. I understand
>>> that you may be too busy to devote any time to this effort, but if
>>> you do have a few moments, I'm looking for answers to the following
>>> questions:
>>> 
>>> 1) What IoT technologies are most appropriate to showcase at BnB?
>>> What would be both interesting and practical in terms of
>>> implementation?
>>> 
>>> 2) Who would be the right people to engage? What  companies or
>>> organizations are doing interesting things in this space and so
>>> might want to participate?
> 
> 
> 
>>> 
>>> If you can point me in the right direction, I'd be extremely
>>> appreciative. And if you know of others who might be a good
>>> resource to help with an IoT themed BnB program, please send them
>>> my way!
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Alexa
>>> 
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