The first one being AllSeen Alliance [1] supported by Qualcomm, and the second one being Open Interconnect Consortium [2] lead by Intel. The difference seems t

The first one being AllSeen Alliance [1] supported by Qualcomm, and the second one being Open Interconnect Consortium [2] lead by Intel. The difference seems that The Thread Group is solely focusing on the network protocol [3] and not a full IoT platform like AllSeen and OIC. And apparently, Nest thermostats are already running a version (is it the final one?) of the Thread protocol. [1] https://allseenalliance.org/ https://allseenalliance.org/ [2] http://www.openinterconnect.org/ http://www.openinterconnect.org/ [3] http://www.threadgroup.org/Technology.aspx http://www.threadgroup.org/Technology.aspx