The wearables/IoT ecosystem will continue to flounder until the equivalent of W3C arises. The horse may have left the barn already. We have the IETF, and they

The wearables/IoT ecosystem will continue to flounder until the equivalent of W3C arises. The horse may have left the barn already. We have the IETF, and they have offered CoAP. (http://www.utwente.nl/ewi/dacs/Colloquium/archive/2010/colloquium_2010_10_14/ http://www.utwente.nl/ewi/dacs/Colloquium/archive/2010/collo...) But the gold rush to claim a chunk of the IoT and wearables product space means a good many people and groups want to invent Yet Another Standard. With so many out there (some good, some wonky) it wil be hard for any single organization to stand up and declare anything remotely like a de jure standard. (For myself I'm working on software to at least bridge some of the more sensible ones.)