OPEN PROTOCOLS FOR AN OPEN, INTEROPERABLE INTERNET OF THINGS

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OPEN PROTOCOLS FOR AN OPEN, INTEROPERABLE
INTERNET OF THINGS
ITU Workshop on the Internet of Things - Trend
and Challenges in Standardization (Geneva,
Switzerland, 18 February 2014)

• Dr Carol Cosgrove-Sacks
• Senior Advisor on International Standards Policy
• OASIS
• info_at_oasis-open.org

Geneva, Switzerland, 18 February 2014
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• Open standards for the global info society
• 5,000 experts in 70 tech committees

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What The Phrase Means
Kevin Ashton coined "Internet of Things" phrase
to describe a system where the Internet is
connected to the physical world via ubiquitous
sensors
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How Ubiquitous?
Gartner IoT Installed Base Will Grow to 26
Billion Units By 2020. That number might be too
low.

• Every mobile
• Every auto

• Every door
• Every room

• Every sensor in every device
• in every bed, chair or bracelet ... in every
  home, office, building or hospital room in
  every city and village ... on Earth ...

• Every part, on every parts list

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The Challenges
Every one of those sensor and control points is
generating data. Often, it's very informative and
very private data. Systems are needed to help
those devices talk to each other, manage all that
data, and enforce proper access control.
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Big Data means BIG Challenges
All of the messaging, management, and access
control technologies used in these large-scale
device networks must be massively scalable.
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Open Protocols
Current Internet and software methods are highly
modular (APIs), highly distributed (Cloud) and
"loosely coupled" (SOA). In today's systems,
every LEGO brick comes from a different source
and they all still must snap together. This
requires open, rapid and safe development
methods.
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Open, Rapid and SafeOpen Source and Open
Standards
OPEN Both work well. Easy to join, transparent
to review. FAST Open source methods work
well. Rapid iterations and ease of contributions
promote rapid development. (1) SAFE Open
standards methods work well. Strong IPR rules,
balanced participation, neutral governance
usable work. (2)
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Fast open standards groups ... and solid open
source projects ... work together very well
Many open standards projects are robustly
supported by free open source software.
Web standard (3) FOSS browsers (4)
Identity standard (5) FOSS toolkits (6)
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Giant ecologies can grow from open projects,
promoting widespread use and adaptation.
Fast open standards groups ... and solid open
source projects ... work together very well
One open standard (UBL for e-invoicing) generates
many local profiles, regional public projects and
open source tools. (7)
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Giant ecologies can grow from open projects,
promoting widespread use and adaptation.This
works in the Internet of Things as well.
Fast open standards groups ... and solid open
source projects ... work together very well
The OASIS MQTT TC (8) standardizes this industry
protocol for lightweight sensor and device
coordination, complemented and informed by
Eclipse's open source implementation project. The
two projects feed each other improvements.
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Key Challengesfor an Open Internet of Things

Lightweight protocols for devices to work together, communicate
Unique and extensible identifiers for all those billions of devices
Demand for API access and interoperability
Cybersecurity
Privacy and Policy
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Key STANDARDS emerging for an Open Internet of
Things

Lightweight protocols for devices to work together, communicate OASIS MQTT, MQTT-SN (8) OASIS SmartGrid projects (9)
Unique and extensible identifiers for all those billions of devices Multiple new projects, XRI(10), UUIDs, etc.
Demand for API access and interoperability SOA/Cloud orchestration (11) and API standardization (AMQP, MQTT, OData) (12)
Cybersecurity KMIP, SAML, XACML/JSON, PKCS11, CloudAuthZ (13)
Privacy and Policy PMRM, PbDSE, and Personal Data Stores (14)
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Open Standards and Open Source Projects will
accelerate the development of the IoT
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Thank you! Questions?
info_at_oasis-open.org
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Notes
1. FOSS http//www.unctad.org/en/docs/c3em21d2_
en.pdf (UNCTAD) http//www.netvibes.com/cabineto
fficeOpen_Source (UK Action Plan). 2. Open
Standards http//www.wto.org/english/docs_e/lega
l_e/17-tbt_e.htm (WTO) http//www.talkstandards.
com/standards-and-oss/. 3. HTML
http//www.w3.org/html/. 4. HTML FOSS Browsers
http//www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
(Mozilla) http//www.w3.org/Amaya/ (Amaya). 5.
SAML https//www.oasis-open.org/committees/secur
ity. 6. SAML FOSS Toolkits http//saml.xml.org/
wiki/saml-open-source-implementations.
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Notes
7. UBL https//www.oasis-open.org/committees/ub
l (OASIS) http//www.nesubl.eu/
, http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OIOXML ,
http//www.peppol.eu/pilot-reporting ,
http//www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-ind-d
isrubl/ , http//www.opensourceacademy.eu/index.ph
p?id59 (guides) http//openinvoice.org/ubl4j/
, http//sourceforge.net/projects/freeb-ubl ,
http//xmltools.oio.dk/oioonlinevalidator/ehandel
/0p71/Invoice/ , http//www.ubl-italia.org/ubl-ita
lia/imple/pgcl.asp?p418, http//www.simpleubl.co
m/articles/what-is-nes/ (tools). 8. MQTT
https//www.oasis-open.org/committees/mqtt
OASIS) http//wiki.eclipse.org/Paho (Eclipse)
http//mqtt.org/news (industry).
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• 9. SmartGrid, Devices https//www.oasis-open.or
  g/committees/tc_cat.php?catsmartgrid.
• 10. Identifiers https//www.oasis-open.org/commi
  ttees/xri (XRI)
• https//www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi (XDI).
• 11. SOA and Cloud https//www.oasis-open.org/co
  mmittees/soa-rm (SOA)
• https//www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?c
  atcloud (cloud computing).
• 12. API-oriented standards https//www.oasis-op
  en.org/committees/amqp (AMQP)
• https//www.oasis-open.org/committees/odata
  (OData) MQTT (fn 8).
• 13. Cybersecurity https//www.oasis-open.org/co
  mmittees/tc_cat.php?catsecurity.
• Privacy standards https//www.oasis-open.org/comm
  ittees/pmrm (Privacy Model)
• https//www.oasis-open.org/committees/pbd-se
  (Privacy by Design)
• https//www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?c
  atprivid (other).