[Fiware-standardization] FIWARE Input to OMA about NGSI - copyright permission needed from Orange, NSN, SAP, Telefonica, SAP, Telecom Italia asap

[Fermín Galán Márquez]

Dear Lindsay,

We (Telefónica) agree in general terms that that FI-WARE work on NGSI could be a good contribution to OMA. However, before given our formal agreement as you request we would like to define "the contribution" more precisely.

I mean, we are not sure if all the content included in the attached documents (NGSI-10 HTTP REST-ful binding draft.docx and NGSI-9 HTTP REST-ful binding draft.docx) should be submitted to OMA as initial contribution given that 1) there are parts that we consider at quite mature and other that aren't so matured, 2) the initial contribution to OMA should include only the mature parts.

In particular, we think that the part about the binding for standards operations (including the XSD) is mature for contribution. The part regarding convenience operations is not so mature due to the following reasons:

  1.  Inconsistencies. E.g. in the NGSI10 binding section 2.1.2 (and subsequence sections) "/contextEntities/{EntityID}" and "/contextEntities/{EntityID}/attributes" have exactly the same behavior. Thus, why two have two different URLs at the end?
  2.  Some convenience operations are not "so convenient". In particular, the ones related with subscriptions, which use the same request XMLs than the ones used for standard operations (e.g. subscribeContextRequest, updateContextSubscriptionRequest). So, what's the point of using convenience operations here if the standard operations is "equally complex" to use?

I would like to clarify that we are not proposing to leave convenience operations out of the scope of contributions to OMA. What I mean is that currently is not the right moment and that we need to refine it a bit more before that (fiware-ngsi mailist is probably the best place to do that). Let's focus our initial OMA contribution in the more mature part of our work: the standard operations binding.

In the meanwhile, we will contact our Telefonica's OMA delegates to make them aware of this.

Best regards,

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Fermín

El 01/07/2013 15:26, Lindsay Frost escribió:

Dear all,

the FIWARE Standardisation Report is due this month and we noticed that there is some very good
FIWARE input about NGSi which could be submitted into OMA, helping to fulfill our project goals.

I have the help of NEC colleagues in OMA ARC group, who would be prepared to submit the contribution
(see attached) on behalf of FIWARE ... *** BUT *** .....

BUT I need formal agreement from the co-authors of the draft specification, so
     Orange, NSN, Telefonica, SAP, Telecom Italia members should please do as follows:
        (a) inform your colleagues in OMA that this topic is coming soon
              and ask them if they would like to co-sign it? (if yes, I need their email addresses)
        (b) confirm to me (so I can reference it if asked) that your company releases any of its copyright
              on the text in the attached zip files according to OMA rules
        (c) make sure your colleagues are aware that the material will be under FRAND licensing rules of OMA
             (inside NEC I already checked that actually there is no known IPR in the files, being based on HTTP)
        (d) confirm to me that you are working on these steps, so I do not nag more ;-)

This nice activity will fail if I do not get replies from ***all*** copyright holders (Orange, NSN, SAP, Telefonica and Telecom Italia)
as soon as possible, i.e. next OMA ARC teleconf is on 09. July.

Please do reply positively! Please fwd this email to whoever should see it with a recommendation to support it!
If anyone is AGAINST this step, please speak up.

best wishes
Lindsay

Note: SAP is not an OMA member, but (b) and (c) and (d) still apply!



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