Hi Rick,
That would definitely be great to restart the discussions around metadata and discovery, and a contribution from Thingworx would be a great addition.
I am sure you remember the few thoughts that were put on the Eclipse wiki a while ago [1] ; maybe Thingworx could contribute to the discussions there? If these are models you'd like to contribute, I assume they are something that could easily fit into the wiki (FWIW, contributions to the Eclipse wiki are considered EPL).
If you were to actually contribute code, of course a new project under the Eclipse M2M umbrella would be more appropriate, and I can only agree with what Mike said already :-)
Whichever is more typical for commercial entities to share stuff. ;-)
Never been a big fan of lawyers.
Rick,
“In the public domain” means something very specific from a legal point of view. By any chance do you actually mean “make it available in open source”?
If it is the latter, I would assume that this could make a worthy addition to the Eclipse M2M project family.
To that end, we at ThingWorx would gladly contribute our metadata and discovery model into the public domain if there is interest. It is protocol and format agnostic, though there are concrete formats for XML,
JSON, and binary streams. We have implemented it on top of HTTP, XMPP, and Websockets
