Re: [Iotsi] New IoT effort at schema.org

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

Going down...


On 8/23/16 1:26 PM, Tim Coote wrote:
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> There’s a commercial asymmetry here, which means that Thing Makers may not know what they have released (their focus is on shifting boxes) and any assertion, unless backed up by a legal contract is worth little. Whoever is dropping in hardware based Things may put in a new version or a replacement from a different supplier that claims to be the same as something else. But isn’t. 

I think what you are saying is that there are white label products out
there.  It is true that one might simply not ask the question.  I don't
find that particularly satisfying, and I know my enterprise friends are
even less enthralled.  They need a way to identify what is accessing
their networks.


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> My conclusion was that the owner of the service delivered to the customer must define automated tests and behaviour categorisations that are used to accept new components and to identify rogues in production.

Sure.  That amounts to NEA, perhaps with a protocol tweak here or
there.  But the challenge is getting Things to divulge ANY information
in a way that doesn't actually place them on shodan.io.

Eliot