Re: [Iot-directorate] Question on IETF IOT-devices scope

To my sense, the Internet of things is quite broad, and must include
severely constrained devices such as remote sensors, trackers and
actuators, less constrained devices such as home devices (consider smart
TVs and thermostats), and unconstrained devices such as home gateways and
cloud services that support the system.  I consider parts of the
infrastructure such as my calendar to constitute part of the system,
coordinating activities and helping to schedule events.  Amazon Alexa and
that ilk of devices count as well, and aren’t very constrained.

Given that, my answer is “yes”: we need to look at IoT holistically, and
shouldn’t artificially say that we only look at issues involving
constrained devices.

Barry

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 5:56 PM Chakrabarti, Samita <samita.chakrabarti=
40verizon.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> In pre-IETF IOT-DIRECTORATE meeting, Ted Lemon has pointed to two
> documents regarding connecting the Thread Mesh networks to the traditional
> IP Infrastructure:
> 1) (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps/)  -
> Problem Statement
> 2) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lemon-stub-networks/         -
> A possible solution
>
> IoT-Directorate co-chairs and the responsible ADs would like to discuss if
> it makes sense to extend the IOT-Directorate charter towards less
> constrained devices such as some of the home devices considered as 'things'.
>
> The charter of the directorate says : (
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/iotdir/about/)
>
> "The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to devices, that are often
> constrained in communication and computation capabilities, now becoming
> more commonly connected to the Internet, and various services that are
> built on top of the capabilities these devices jointly provide. It is
> expected that this development will usher in more machine-to-machine
> communication using the Internet with no human user actively involved."
>
> Should IoT-Directorate members consider Thread Mesh stub networks as one
> of topics under IOT-DIR scope of discussion or part of IoT work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Samita
>
>
>
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