Dave, On Feb 12, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Dave Crocker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 2/11/2016 10:57 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: To be fair, there is really no way at present for IoT vendors to deliver service without running the data collection end, unless they sell you a workstation to do it at home. If there were a place at home where data collection apps could run... I do not know of any reason the model for IoT needs to be different from email. That is, yes, servers are needed. They might reside with end-users, but they do not have to. On this point, I think RFC 7452 ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7452 ) did a nice job with spelling out the different "communication patterns" seen in IoT deployments. To Ted's point, what I think we're seeing is a very large number of vendors pursuing the "Device-to-Cloud" model (section 2.2) of sending all the data back to some central application service provider, versus the "Device-to-Gateway" model (2.3) where there is a local hub in the home. You're right, Dave, that this is quite similar to email... people *could* operate their own home email servers, or they could just use some big cloud-based vendor (<insert favorite name here>). The essential point is to have an open interconnection specification that permits mixing different vendors' products together. (This is true for mixing IoT end devices, not just IoT data servers.) This *is* the ideal I think we want to shoot for, BUT... I think the real issue here is that the vendors have a strong incentive to /retain/ their data acquisition role. So they won't give it up unless and until there is a strong consumer-driven pressure for it. ... I think you're right on target here. I think with IoT consumer devices we're still in the early deployment stages where the vendors are trying to capture the ecosystem and obtain de facto standards purely by market success. I think it will take some significant level of consumer frustration with not being able to buy, for instance, two lightbulbs from different vendors and have them work together before there will be enough pressure to get vendors to start interoperating. My 2 cents, Dan -- Dan York Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> +1-802-735-1624 Jabber: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Skype: danyork http://twitter.com/danyork http://www.internetsociety.org/
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