On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 08:47:44 PST Mats Wichmann wrote: > I can say from my time working on OCF certification that the intent was > always for app cert to be possible. I was never sure if there would be a > lot of market for it (won't speak for anyone else on that, just my > opinion). If I'm building, say, smart lightbulbs that I want to exist > in an OCF network, I want those certified, but my app that controls my > lightbulbs is just an addon - I give it away to help people use the > bulbs I sell, but I don't generate any direct revenue from it, and I > might not have a lot of interest in dealing with other aspects of the > OCF protocols that don't relate to running those lightbulbs.
FYI, the long-term objective of OCF is that you *don't* make that app. The control of all of your OCF-enabled devices should be done by applications you already have installed, hopefully much more complete and more featureful than what your simple lightbulb controller would be. I don't want to install your app, plus Samsung Connect for my washing machine plus LG's equivalent for my TV, etc. One application must suffice for most uses. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ iotivity-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.iotivity.org/mailman/listinfo/iotivity-dev
