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This page intends to contain the agenda for next meeting and notes from previous meeting. At the bottom is a template for the agenda. General agenda points like discussion on PRs and issues may be skipped if discussion on prioritized topics takes too long time. 

General Agenda

  • Welcome and Compliance statement

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Agenda discussion - anything that needs to be added?

  • Prioritized Topics:
    • Capabilities - create a list of common vehicle capabilities/function to be expose via api
    • IFEX (Interface Exchange) - a general interface description and transformation technology 
    • uServices - definition of common vehicle services usimg protobuf as the interface definition language
    • Vehicle Signal Specification over Data Distributiion Service 
    • Vehical Information Service Specification (VISS) -  a service for accessing vehicle information, signals from sensors on control units within a vehicle's network. It exposes this information using COVESA Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS).
    • Vehicle API - will expose vehicle data as defined and described by COVESA's Vehicle Signal Specification to a  variety of agreed upon touch-points in and out of the vehicle
    • Hierarchical Information Model (HIM)
    • Interface Blueprint

Agenda 2025-04-24

  • VISS
    • Still on track - RC2 - open for review until April 25
    • Anyone building production version?  Unknown.
  • IFEX
    • Find common time for regular meeting - Paul and Gunnar to synch
    • Call for experts in AUTOSAR
    • Synch with Volvo
  • AMM

Agenda 2025-04-10

  • VISS
    • RC2 - open for review until April 25
  • EU Data Act
  • IFEX
  • AMM

Agenda 2025-03-27

  • IFEX
  • AMM
  • CDSP
  • VISS
  • EU Data Act
  • This meeting date/time

Agenda 2025-02-25

Agenda 2025-01-28

Agenda 2025-01-21

  • Informal discussion of best web conference/meeting software to use.
    • Many like Teams.  COVESA is not a Teams subscriber
    • Zoom being able to have open meetings is important
  •  IFEX
    • Set and Map types
    • Discussed blog/project call to participate.  Not quite ready.
    • AI:  Update meeting with new Zoom link
  • Capabilities
  • EU Data Act  Meeting - Meeting tomorrow - See Community Calendar
      • Sector specific extension mentioned (annex).  Automotive Sector Extension.
      • Moved to Tuesdays. 
  • CSDP 
    • update VISSr to v 3.0
  • Data Marketplace

Agenda 2025-01-14

  • IFEX
    • Variant type supported
  • Capabilities
    • Work continues getting to the point of opening up
  • EU Data Act
    • Important to data marketplace
  • Data Marketplace
    • Swen to update diagrams
  • VISS
    • 3.0 release on track
    • First RC soon
  • CDSP
    • Semantic reasoning being added
    • Update VISS version
    • update iotdb
  • AMM
    • May 12 - 14
      • Possibility of workshop
      • Call for tech sessions soon
  • China
    • Apache IoTDB


Agenda 2024-12-17

Agenda 2024-12-10

  • EU Data Act Project 
  • IFEX Dev Meeting
    • Reviewed current codebase
      • How to organize
        • Make it easier to understand
      • Cleanup
    • How and where to contribute
    • AI:  Setup next meeting - after New Year, Wednesday 4pm CET
    • AI:  Get feedback on license change
      • DEG
      • Contributors
  • Capabilities
    • Reorganize 
  • ACEA 
    • 6 european truck manufacturers looking for in vehicle api.  Ready to elaborate
    • Request to setup a Liaison Agreement regarding FMS in vehicle api
      • Type of membership needed?
    • How to proceed
      • Reuse fleet management
      • AI:  create charter  - (Look at Commercial Vehicle EG charter) Achim, Paul 

Agenda 2024-12-03

  • IFEX Dev Meeting is tomorrow December4 at 7am PT / 4pm CET
  • IFEX Web viewer repo
    • Waiting for update from DEG chairs
  • IFEX Licensing 
    • Preferred to get community interest
    • MPL 2.0 not clear on generated code - in other words generated code could be protected under license.
    • Apache appears to be the desired license of some
    • AI:  Paul to make a request to the community for feedback
  • IFEX Update
    • Logo is ready
  • EU Data act proposal
  • Automotive API
    •  Ulf was asked to join next Thursday's meeting to discuss VISS 3
    • AUTOSAR release event on Dec 5.
  • Data Exchange Platform
    • Presented in Commercial Vehicle meeting.  Got some feedback.
    • Action Item:  Please provide feedback
    • Swen discussed with MS for prototype.  There are potentially funds available.
    • MS working with Eclipse SDV
  • Playground - CDSP
    • Knowledge layer work continuing
  • Capabilities - Seat
    • Workshop
  • VISS - v3.0
    • On time plan/path to be feature complete at end of year
  • IFEX/ ARXML translater
    • Setting up repo like Automotive API

Agenda 2024-11-26

  • IFEX Dev - meeting date/time - December 4 at 7am PT / 4pm CET
  • VISS
    • Still on track to release version 3 by May AMM
    • Achim/Bosch to define and clarify performance measurements and requirements
  • Commercial Vehicles
    • FMS in vehicle API requirements
    • Action Item:  Paul Boyes to reachout to Steve Crumb regarding adding Standardization to Board Agenda in Dec.
  • IFEX
    • Logo previews coming - continuing the design
    • IFEX web viewer
      • Propose to publish a binary in npm package format with different maintainers - IFEX Viewer
        • Web browser viewer - shows different layers
      • Action Item Paul Boyes to send request for review of IFEX Viewer repository
      • What is he license? 
        • The quickest way is likely MIT
      • Action Item:  Request comment/decision IFEX license change when ready.  IFEX license change may be proposed
  • VSS Viewer in the past aside or in addtion to playground.digital.auto?
    • In VISS v2 there was a simple viewer
  • Capabilities overview
  • SDV Alliance - Status?

Agenda 2024-11-19

  • IFEX Dev - meeting date/time
  • Data Exchange Platform
  • Architecture
    • When do we need to map to an architecture?
    • What will it look like
      • 2 types of apis were discussed:  data and service
  • Commercial Vehicles
    • rFMS refers j1939 - how does the ip align?
      • Achim to send email to Tim from SAE to ask.

Agenda 2024-11-12

  • ARXML<>IFEX
    • There is a path forward with AUTOSAR.  
  • IFEX
  • Capabilities
    • Update
    • Question as to whether an API is being designed at this point  
      • Answer - No...Aligning OEMs are aligning on Seating Capability


Agenda 2024-11-05

  • ACEA (FMS)
    • Liaison agreement - Achim to sent email 
    • To work with Commercial Vehicle Expert Group
  • IFEX dev meeting request to interested parties and GM, Volvo, and others
  • IFEX

    • Franca to IFEX - please review

    • Publishing two blog posts - on IFEX GitHub wiki

    • Design at Mbition will produce logo for IFEX
  • ARXML <> IFEX  
    • Meeting in AUTOSAR evaluating working model.   Gunnar to provide status next week.
  • Capabilities Project

Agenda 2024-10-29

Agenda 2024-10-22

  • ARXML to IFEX - Mikael Nicklas Hoeret and Pinglei
  • Should we start a IFEX development group meeting 
    • Yes - Paul to send out message to interested parties.
  • Capabilities project with OEMs moving forward 

Agenda 2024-10-15

  • ARXML Interoperability Introduction
  • Summary of TST review of API Design and Standardization

Agenda 2024-10-08

  • IFEX update

    API standardization is presented to the TSC on Oct 14th 

    Image Added

Agenda 2024-10-01

    • Brief discussion of Capabilities project

Agenda 2024-09-10

  • IFEX update presentation from Gunnar next week.
  • Workshop Agenda to go out tonight.

Agenda 2024-09-03

  • Data Marketplace
    • presentation
      View file
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  • Standardization
    • Drafting and SAE compliant layout
      • Easiest path to start.  Can leverage moving to intl orgs
    • How will this affect current VSS work?
  • IFEX update presentation from Gunnar next week.

Agenda 2024-08-27

  • VISS Status
    • No meeting last week
  • CVIS
    • Demo from 20240826 
  • IFEX
    • Nothing new on GitHub
    • Connecting with AUTOSAR
    • Web viewer still a work in progress
  • Central Data Service Playground
    • Committed the extended data processing capabilities with example of advance data reduction
  • Silli Auto - APIGear presented in VSS will present here as well if desired
  • API Standardization
    • finalize "API-standardization charter V1.0" : Proposed Charter
    • Review and Comment on API Standardization -  Presentation
  • Technical Summit/Workshop
    • Sept 24th
  • AMM
  • Data Marketplace
    • present to this group next week
  • Reverse Geolocation API 
    • Opportunity to work with Google 
  • Capabilities
  • vsomeip


Agenda 2024-08-20

  • VISS Status

    • Version 3 before AMM in April

      • Not mandate transfer protocol. 
      • Mandate payload
    • AUTOSAR has chosen v2.0
      • Reviewing documents
    • v3.0 will support GRPC
  • IFEX
    • Synch up with people doing web viewer
    • Vehicle API 
    • Hope to kick of AUTOSAR stuff too
      • Learning how to develop and open source with AUTOSAR
  • Silli Auto - APIGear presentation next week at VSS meeting
  • API Standardization
    • finalize "API-standardization charter V1.0" : Proposed Charter
    • Review and Comment on API Standardization -  Presentation
  • Volvo
    • Magnus Feuer working on engagement strategy and bringing others in
  • Technical Summit/Workshop
    • Sept 24th
  • AMM
    • Register if you are coming.


Agenda 2024-08-13

  • IFEX
    • Web-viewer work
    • Fixed bug regarding dbus code generator
    • Kickstart IFEX in AUTOSAR
  • VISS 
    • AUTOSAR
  • AMM Workshop
  • uServices
  • uServices to work with CDSP
  • CDSP
    • Data processing lib added
    • Grafana
    • Continued work on knowledge layer connector
  • Data Ecosystem 
    • Swen to present at fall AMM

Agenda 2024-08-06

  • API Standardization - 

Agenda 2024-07-30

  • finalize "API-standardization charter V1.0" : Proposed Charter
  • Review and Comment on API Standardization - s. Presentation
  • Proposal: own "API-Standardization"-Workshop at AMM on Tue Sept 24th.

Image Added

Agenda 2024-07-22


Agenda 2024-07-10

  • API Standardization Discussion
    • Draft Charter
    • View file
      nameCOVESA_Standard_Proposal.pptx
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  • vsomeip status
  • IFEX
    • dbus code generator used but having compilation issues
    • positive movement in getting other implementations out (e.g. impl in golang, web visualizer).  Not official but can take time.
      • useful for those wanting to take part in other development
  • HLAPI
    • push further in commercial vehicle space
    • pitch topic for AMM
  • AMM

Agenda 2024-06-25

  • API Standardization Presentation
  • vsomeip
  • VISS
    • 3 document structure agreed
  • HLAPI
    • Continuing to present to others
  • AOSP SDK
    • Opportunity to connect projects
  • AUTOSAR
    • Approach your company's representative for details of how to move forward
  • IFEX
    • releases can be done more easily with json schema
    • overall documentation work
    • Encourage input from others
  • API Standardization
    • Presentation by Achim Henkel Bosch
    • View file
      nameCOVESA_Standard_Proposal.pptx
      height250

Agenda 2024-06-18

  • IFEX
  • CVIS
  • Commercial Vehicle 
  • vsomeip
  • AOSP Update
    • Boot camp last week.  Public announcements when available shoudl make it clear
    • Emulator SDK overview from SNAPP 

Agenda 2024-06-11

  • CDSP
  • vsomeip
    • vsomeip_py project public as of 2024-06-10
    • Meeting next Monday at 16:00 CET / 10am ET / 7am PT
  • HLAPI
    • working on bringing project charter forward
  • Commercial Vehicles
    • presenting proposed charter to Board tomorrow
  • IFEX
    • pull requests 
    • hope to deliver web visualizer
  • AOSP SDK
    • Encourage to look at aasig repos
    • mapping VSS to VHAL

Agenda  2024-06-04

  • Swen's HLAPI proposal
  • IFEX Update
    • Pull request walkthrough
  • Commercial Vehicle Information specifications
    • Kickoff meeting yesterday
    • Next meeting on 6/17
  • Central Data Services Playground
    • GM (Halim) to discuss integrating emulator/mocker in meeting tomorrow (6/5)
    • 0.1.0 released
    • BMW work in progress pull request for knowledge layer connector

Agenda  2024-05-28

  • Update Swen's proposal
    • Swen to start project 
      • proposal
      • call for collaboration
      • collect requirements
      • Show relationship to current work
      • Show relationship to work in other organizations
  • IFEX update
  • Commercial Vehicle Interface Specifications
    • First meeting June 3 7am PT / 4pm CET
  • AUTOSAR Update
  • Project naming/acronyms
    • Trying to avoid naming/acronym collions/overloading
    • Suggested Commercial Fleet Interface Specifications
  • Events on and layering on VSS

Agenda  2024-05-21

  • Presentation from @Swen Schisler
    • Re-address/re-evaluate C&CS and look at bigger picture
    • Review existing material
    • How to start/renew?
    • Important to consider naming and branding (e.g. Common Vehicle Interfaces vs Commercial Vehicle Information Specification)
    • What are the desired outputs 
      • Tech stack one leg of the output
      • Architecture
      • Requirements
    • Disconnected projects not ideal
    • Many ecosystems involved
    • Should express the requirements
    • Action Item:  Continue to review what has been done - concrete to carry forward
    • Action Item:  Find someone willing to lead - Swen
    • Action Item:  Call for participation 
    • Action Item: Provide context and map existing projects to it
  • AUTOSAR update
  • IFEX
    • Cleaning up and refactoring
  • Commercial Vehicle Information Specifications
    • reviews by Commercial Vehicle BoF and Data Expert Group Chairs
    • Planned meeting on June 3

Agenda  2024-05-14

  • Presentation from @Swen Schisler
    • Project proposal next week
  • IFEX 
  • HIM and Commercial Vehicles - review scheduled 
  • VISS
    • FIrst meeting was held on Monday
  • Connected Safety
    • Status
  • Payment 
    • Status
  • IFEX
    • TOX tool being used.
  • CDSP
    • Remotive labs merged

Agenda  2024-05-07

  • Presentation from @Swen Schisler
  • Project Updates
    • VISS - will meet on Mondays at 4pm CET starting May 13.
    • HIM and Commercial Vehicles - proposal submitted for review
    • IFEX - 
      • Versioning reviewed - all backward compatible currently
      • Leverage internal work done with Thrift perhaps
      • Interested in furthering work with AUTOSAR Automotive API
      • Cleaning up and improving quality
    • CDSP 
      • RemotiveLabs feeder
      • Knowledge Layer connector 
      • Action Item:  Request for use cases - please provide if you have ideas
    • Website - will go live - please review
    • AOSP
      • Push Notification 
      • Ambient Lighting
        • To drive interfaces, emulator, playground
      • Entertainment
      • Payments
      • VHAL 
      • Camera API - mentioned in AOSP group again

Agenda  2024-04-30

  • Presentation from @Swen Schisler
  • Project Updates
    • VISS - will meet on Mondays at 4pm CET starting May 13.
    • HIM and Commercial Vehicles
      • Evaluate if VSS works  or new trees for Commercial Trailers
      • Align with current VSS contributors
    • IFEX 
      • Clear versioning
      • CI work 
      • Protobuf
      • Interface and layering


Agenda  2024-03-26

  • IFEX 
  • VISS/VISSR
    • Ready to announce move to COVESA next week
  • uServices
    • How do we reuse this of definitions?  Interface behavior?  Logic?

Agenda  2024-03-19

Agenda  2024-03-12

  • Contribute Commodity Catalog Call for Submission
    • Start with submissions on seating, cabin climate from BMW, Mercedes, Ford, GM
  • Stronger Agenda - Potential Comments
    • Signal discovery at interface level 
    • Blueprints
      • e.g. Errors. Ford has common errors
    • Commodity Service
      • never compared to VHAL
        • BMW - Connected VHAL properties 
        • Start with Seating and HVAC
        • Action Item:  Provide Seating HVAC - Try to get Seating capabilities
        • Ping Gunnar about commits
        • Getting this offline and readiness
    • IFEX - Overlay for AUTOSAR  for ARXML  VHAL/SOMEIP
    • HIM Rule set
    • User Identity
      • ActionItem:  What work can we work on as a group, key fob related to vehicle signals and how related to user identity
      • Extension for key fob on VSS
    • Authentication
    • Some requests have OBD / Emmisions regulations
      • How is this handled in VISS and Kuksa
    • Very specific topics like IFEX <> uServices
  • Backlog in GitHub

Agenda  2024-02-27

Agenda  2024-02-20

  • blueprint brainstorm
    • Paul to post a start
  • VISS to COVESA
    • Automotive WG closed
    • create repos in COVESA and move from w3c
    • Names spec (VISS) and implementation (VISS-)
    • use respec for spec
  • AMM
    • VISS presentations/sessions
    • VISS overview, status, announcement

Agenda  2024-02-13

  • Licensing meeting this week with AUTOSAR - Discussion
  • Blueprint brainstorm

Agenda  2024-02-06

  • Licensing meeting this week with AUTOSAR
  • VISS in progress of moving to COVESA
  • IFEX and uServices 
  • Blueprint Patterns
    • Discovery Patterns
    • Notification
    • Request Response
    • Configurability
    • Ease of Use
    • Level of API - 3rd party app, lower level SDV, or...
  • Next Week - Brainstorm Blueprints
    • Share Common Pain Points

Agenda  2024-01-30

  • Licensing meeting this week with AUTOSAR
  • VISS in progress of moving to COVESA
  • IFEX and uServices 

Agenda  2024-01-23

  • IFEX and uServices - synch status
    • Protobuf "option" meaning discussed - it is used for configuration parameters that modify the behavior of the interface.  Need to determine how this will manifest in IFEX.
  • VISSv2
    • Paul Boyes to setup meeting regarding mechanical transfer to COVESA
  • ARXML License Discussion

Agenda  2024-01-16

  • Digital key - Ted
  • IFEX and uservices - synch meeting - 
  • Ted Guild Start topic of identity in  CVI - Ted Guild Erik Jaegervall Halim Ragab  to bring initial use cases forward Gunnar Andersson happy to support if needed in IFEX
  • Halim Ragab IFEX to/from uservices and IFEX to/from someip
  • Adnan Bekan Android and Apple APIs - extract all functions an list for discussion
  • Paul Boyes to arrange for moving VISS to COVESA
    • @remotive labs working on feeder opportunity for work
    • identify shared work in VISS
  • Playground forming container with VISS
    • Mongo adding Realm
    • BMW working on knowledge layer
  • Scoping catalog work
  • blueprints look at existing initiatives
  • Identity - 

Agenda  2023-11-28

Prioritized Topics:

  • Capability Lists Review
  • IFEX and uservices
  • ACTION ITEM: Adnan Bekan   Look at Android 14 - Vehicle Attributes and APIs for capabilities (Seats, Steering Wheel....) Link
  • ACTION ITEM:  Melissa Morris Melissa to do the exact same thing for Seats as HVAC - Week of Dec 5
  • ACTION ITEM:  @everyone VSS and IFEX discussion read doc
  • ACTION ITEM:  @everyone Review capabilities outlined in uservices
  • Goal:  Gunnar Andersson , Paul Boyes , @everyoneAgreed common/computable representation/description of common capabilities at a logical level
    • Is IFEX mature enough to define common capabilities
    • Attempt to define HVAC interfaces in IFEX 
  • Domain Priority
    • HVAC
    • Seats
  • Playground: @everyone - Provide examples of what is needed input in Playground.  What examples would be useful?  What is the goal of that example?
    • Try it out and get involved.
  • What representation? Why? Show a reference implementation on Playground

Agenda  2023-11-21

Prioritized Topics:

  • Capability Lists Review
  • IFEX and uservices
  • ACTION ITEM:  Melissa to do the exact same thing for Seats as HVAC - Week of Dec 5
  • ACTION ITEM:  VSS and IFEX discussion read doc
  • ACTION ITEM:  Review capabilities outlined in uservices

Agenda  2023-11-14

Prioritized Topics:

  • Capability Lists Review

Meeting notes  2023-11-7


Meeting notes  2023-10-24

  • Prioritized Topics:
    • Gunnar looking at converting uServices
    • Blueprints
      • Looked at https://apiblueprint.org/
      • uServices - look to extract patterns, look at options when Halim back
        • business logic separated from deployment
        • Number of rows... Number of seat rows?  Constant or set at design 
    • Ford - Meet Shareef/Ford at Nov 7 during regularly scheduled meeting

Meeting notes  2023-10-24

  • Prioritized Topics:
    • Blueprint
    • Ford - Meet with on Nov 2
      • Blueprint
      • Catalog/Capabilities
      • Meet Nov 2 from 9-10am ET
    • BMW to provide feedback on IFEX
    • Apple
      • Can we get API documentation from Apple?
      • AI:  Halim and Adnan to work internally
    • Google
      • Followed up 
      • We need to get back to them when we have something
    • Automotive API (formerly Vehicle API)
    Prioritized topics for next meeting


Meeting notes  2023-10-17

...

  • Prioritized Topics:
    • Discussed How to handle this Common Vehicle Interfaces meeting.  Agreed to start listing service capabilities.
    • Action Item: Halim Ragab to start a Capabilities page and Usecases page
    •  AMM:
      • Block out time for discussions
      • Discuss Use cases, why common vehicle interfaces matter?
        • Integrating with the vehicle 
        • Mapping to VHAL
      • Capabilities
      • Meet with Google to discuss integration via common interfaces/services
        • Create good example and present prior to AMM

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