Michael Holdmann for Board 2014

Contact Details
Jabber ID: mholdmann@coversant.net

Email: mholdmann@coversant.com

Company: Coversant, Inc.

Who are you?
I am COO/EVP Coversant, Inc. where I lead Strategy, Product, Marketing and Sales for Coversant Inc.'s XMPP based Internet of Things Service Bus (IoT-SB) which focuses exclusively on connecting disparate systems and devices, across platforms, in real-time, enabling the marriage of the “Internet of Things” and Big Data on the most scalable solution available.

I also serve on WG's for IEEE/ISO/IEC and UPnP which are standardizing XMPP as the protocol for cloud

IEEE/ISO/IEC P21451-1-4 - Standardizing XMPP as the protocol for sensors, actuators, controllers for IoT UPnP IoT and Cloud Task Forces - The Internet of Things (IoT) Task Force operates under the Technical Committee and was formed to leverage existing UPnP specifications and the new UPnP Cloud Architecture to provide a complete and open standards-based, solution for developers creating applications for the Internet of Things.

- The scope of work of the UPnP+ Cloud Task Force is to provide the vision and information necessary to organize and define the work required for UPnP participation in cloud services. This will include investigation of existing and emerging technologies, development of use cases, clarification of general architectural approach and organizational structure required. The impact of work outside UPnP should be considered.

UPnP has publicly demonstrated the new ecosystem at IBC 2014 in Amsterdam.

Why Are you Standing?
With the XSF continuing focus of XMPP on Human to Human chat we are missing the opportunity that has come about with adding machine data to the collaborative mix. No other protocol offers the capabilities that exist in XMPP around security, discovery, privacy, interoperability and federation of disparate systems. XMPP is not prejudice to where the data is coming from (a human typing or a machine pushing).

With the large marketing budgets being spent for MQTT, AMQP, CoAP, DDS etc. we need a more focused approach to the market. I strongly believe that by XSF ignoring IoT market we are truly dong a disservice to the world and slowing the growth of the IoT as other standards bodies attempt to turn their protocols into XMPP. We need a common message on why XMPP and focus the market on the advantages of the protocol for data transport over the internet.

XMPP is used on all iOS devices, Android devices, Google cloud connection server (it is even present in chrome), Intel in their CCF IoT platform as well as the standards bodies I mentioned above. XSF needs to work with these organizations to get the message out about why they choose XMPP and how how they use it.

But why you?
For the last 2 years I have been presenting, blogging and promoting XMPP as the proper protocol for IoT from gateway to cloud. I have over 32 years of experience in Telecommunications/Internet with SME in networking, HW and SW. I speak on the specifics of the IoT architecture at conferences. I am not an engineer or developer although I do have a acute understanding of how technologies work, allowing me to see their capabilities across verticals that may not have been identified as a use case in their initial focus.

I would bring the experience of a global marketing and strategy executive to the organization and work to expand the use of the protocol as well as membership of corporate sponsors.

I believe that we have an opportunity and it is our duty to make XMPP the protocol for the IoT/Industrial Internet as HTTP is for the human internet and bridge the two together seamlessly.