This document describes the initial rationale and proposal for CSDIF, to solicit feedback from other interested parties. It is not a fully implementable specification yet, but defines a direction that is defined enough for some practical experimentation.
As a followup after this RFC, a POC was built, which is described in a followup document.
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Revision history
2025-05-05: Revision 1 (download)
2025-06-26: Revision 2 (dowload)
- Restructured chapter 2 to be more readable and discuss the data model separate from the access API.
- Added section “Object names, labels and descriptions” under “Other considerations”.
- Added section “Specification complexity” under “Risk”.
- Clarified the relation between SensorThings and SensorML in various places.
- Other minor improvements.