Meeting minutes
Schedule
kaz: we need to confirm the schedule of monthly meetings
Minutes management
<kaz> proposed_resolution: taking minutes on IRC and publish the resulted HTML on GitHub
kaz: Propose we copy minutes from IRC to github
… any objections?
… no objections
RESOLUTION: taking minutes on IRC and publish the resulted HTML on GitHub
Minutes review
<kaz> 8 Septemter 2025
kaz: (scrolls through the minutes document)
… Juanjo presented a description of FiWare
… We would like to continue the collaboration with NGSI-LD
… any objections to approve the minutes from September 8th?
… no objections, approved
Minutes review from the TPAC breakout session
<kaz> TPAC breakout on 12 November 2025
kaz: (scrolls through the minutes documents)
… presentations from SBCO, IEC SCD3, Echonet, and OGC
… ISO/IEC JTC1 and JTC4 are the relevant groups
kaz: any objections to approving these minutes?
… no objections, approved
mjk: any follow on discussion from TPAC?
kaz: let's wrap up from the TPAC meeting and plan going forward
kaz: We would like to continue to invite important stakeholders, including IEC/ISO groups, Echonet, FiWare OGC...
… Would like to maintain a global scope and focus
mjk: yeah, cities can work with each other, we need to understand that as well
… sort of the Charter item
kaz: tx
… and what about you :)
mjk: agree with you about that
kaz: both internationalization and localization, global interoperability and local use cases
mjk: use cases are contextful
… how we do localize is a question
kaz: right
mjk: how do we localize to many diverse cultural factors
kaz: right. I think we can talk with Richard about that as a starting point :)
mjk: and in terms of "stakeholders"
… people are varied and open
… smart cities is relatively new but we're covering important ones
… connected with ISO, IEC, etc., is important
… ontologies are still waiting to be sorted out
… building ontology, etc. is being discussed
… good example what W3C can do and succeed
kaz: right. good point
mjk: what we need to do is looking at people again after the vacation season
kaz: we might want to sync with the BOT community group
… they are an example of W3C success
bert: There is a lot of interest around digital twins in the EU organization
endo: The metadata aspect is an interesting part
kaz: the NHK standardization work on metadata should be included
toumura: The interoperability work is also interesting to solve pain points in industry, for example agriculture
… each area is a broad area
kaz: we should clarify which industries to engage
toumura: mobility, energy...
kaz: we may develop additional connections across industry
kaz: NTT might be another possibility
mizushima: we should collect and categorize input across a wide range of stakeholders; government, industry, and so on
2026 Planning
<kaz> resources.md on GitHub
kaz: we've already identified sevaral important points and directions
… stakeholders, industries, focus on interoperability, metadata
… any further input?
… we already have markdown files on resources
… we could include stakeholders, companies, countries
kaz: we could think about which items to handle first
… we could generate another markdown for that purpose but could continue to add to this document
… next step is to think about which ones to invite, etc.
mjk: we could do the refinement in this document, and use the resources as an appendix
kaz: we could start by creating a structure and Table of Contents
… and think about timeline
… what are the concrete steps?
kaz: mjk and kaz can work on the milestones and outline with a pull request(s)
kaz: we can create separate sections for specific viewpoints, starting with which segments to engage
kaz: toumura-san, can you start with a list?
… I can engage construction companies and accessibility
… attended a teleconference around accessibility and educational content
… need to redefine and refine the definition of accessibility for smart cities
… we could think about customization of standards
mizushima: the charter ends in August, we should think about more long term relationships
kaz: since we're an interest group, we should generate an informal document as a summary
… we can also extend by a few months to cover TPAC 2026 and review the next steps etc. at that time
kaz: the first year was establishing relationships with key stakeholders
mizushima: Is there a session planned for March 26th AC meeting?
kaz: not likely
kaz: please review resources.md and we chairs have an action item to update the document with TOC
kaz: meeting adjourned