I've had 2 separate but related email discussions going on over the last couple of weeks.
First my email to the list concerning the Internet of Things to which Nig has so far responded, see attached. And second a discussion with Hans concerning the Man to Machine interface and Scenario Planning, see
attached.
It seems to me that these two aspects are closely related and perhaps point to a new Service Management pattern in the TGF. It could be another dimension of Channel Management but I feel there is a difference between Channels and Platforms and therefore we could be talking about a new Platform Management pattern. I'm not sure what the new pattern would say other than raising awareness of this aspect and pointing to the new work in ISO and IEEE that Coin pointed us to on the last call. It's also interesting the OASIS has just issued a new information note on the IoT and M2M although it doesn't suggest that any new work is about to start in the organisation but it is clearly an emerging topic.
I'll put this on the agenda for our next TC call but it would be good to get some views in advance of that please. Is there something for us to consider and develop a new pattern or not?
John