OASIS Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) TC

To all prospective members of the MQTT TC: The first order of business at the first TC meeting is to elect a chair (or two co-chairs). If you are interested in serving as a Chair or in nominating another individual for the position of Chair, you are welcome to make that candidacy known prior to the first meeting by posting a note to the TC's e-mail list expressing your interest and/or intent along with a brief statement of your or their qualifications. The meeting will also accept nominations from any qualified persons before beginning the vote. Please be aware that prospective members must join the TC no less than 7 days prior to the first meeting in order to participate in the meeting and vote on for TC Chair(s). To join the TC, go to the TC's web page at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/mqtt/ and click the "Join This TC" button. /chet ---------------- Chet Ensign Director of Standards Development and TC Administration OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society http://www.oasis-open.org Primary: +1 973-996-2298 Mobile: +1 201-341-1393

I am please to nominate for Co-Chairs of the MQTT Technical Committee, Richard Coppen and Raphael Cohen.  Both bring a great depth of experience designing, using, applying and developing MQTT related software and systems. Having Co-Chairs with a deep technical knowledge  of the MQTT protocol, as well as a sense of the value of standardization to industry growth, will be strong asset to the TC. Richard is a software architect at IBM's UK Hursley Laboratory, with over 15 years in the development and test of middleware products, specializing in message queueing technologies.  As a Chartered Engineer and  Fellow of the BCS, Richard has a keen interest in subsystem integration and the application of MQTT  harness sensor data. Raph is Co-Founder and Chief Architect of StormMQ which specializes in  cloud based message broker services. Raph is one of this TC's proposers and works as Secretary for the AMQP Technical Committee, a related specification at OASIS. best regards...............Scott Scott de Deugd