This specification was pending acceptance by the council. I have taken the decision to block its publication for now, until some further discussion has taken place.
Any technical points made below are based on my current understanding, someone correct me if I am misunderstanding anything. Although the title and text reference sensors heavily, the document is primarily about a way to delegate trust to a third-party (which the document calls the 'provisioning server', but I shall simply call the authority). For any given action that an entity is requested to perform by an actor, the entity may present the authority with the actor's credentials and the action they wish to perform. The authority can either allow or deny this action. The actor's credentials can be anything from a JID or IP address to a physical location (for example if the actor is a physical user). As far as I can tell, this one protocol flow covers most of the cases described in the spec (even though it currently uses a slightly different protocol for each separate case). I believe the spec would benefit from being more general. We don't currently have a protocol for this in XMPP. Sensors need it, other people need it, and it would receive more widespread usage and review if it were not sensor-specific. This same thought applies to many of the other "sensor" XEPs that are really not about sensors. EXI for example - no mention of it belongs here. I suggest that the ideal solution would be a single informational XEP that describes how sensor networks can employ XMPP - which XEPs they should use, and how. The glossary and table of XEPs from each of these sensor documents would then live there, and there only. In general the XSF is good at protocols, few of us know anything of the world of sensors or any other niche that XMPP finds its way into. I think it would be best to keep working on good reusable protocol building-blocks, and not get distracted too much by working on single-use protocols and specifications. I'm happy to help with transformation of this spec, or creation of a new one to meet these criteria. Regards, Matthew
