CFV: New Project: Kona

[Riaz Aimandi]

I hereby propose the creation of the Kona Project with myself (Riaz Aimandi) 
as the Lead and the Core Libraries group as the sponsoring group. 

This project would define and implement Java APIs for networking technologies 
and protocols that are commonly used in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain. 
The primary goal of this project would be to define APIs that can be efficiently 
implemented and used on embedded devices. These APIs would be defined in
such a way that it could be potentially used with Java ME, although the project
would initially focus on the implementation for Java SE. 

The first protocol that will be included in this project is Constrained Application 
Protocol (CoAP) and is expected to be contributed by ARM. It should have the
support for UDP connector with Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) 
authentication handled outside of the CoAP APIs. Other connectors like TCP 
could be added later. Eventually, other technologies and protocols such as 
bluetooth might be considered as well.

I lead the IoT gateway runtime team at Oracle, where I have been in the Java 
group since 2007. Before that I was a technical lead in SavaJe Technologies, 
where I  represented the company in standards committees like JCP (MIDP3) 
and OMTP (Application Security Framework). I have been working with Java 
in mobile and embedded environments for 14 years.

The initial Reviewers and Committers suggested here are members of Oracle’s
IoT team and ARM’s mbed team.

The initial Reviewers will be Bob Vandette, Richard Bair, Jasper Potts, Darryl 
Mocek, David Grieve & Jen Dority.

The initial Committers will be Sujay Sarkhel, Frederick Smith, Stephen Flores, 
Nikolay Yatsenko, Richard Ratta, Qing Liu, Brandon Passanisi, Kinsley Wong, 
Sergey Soldatov, Victor Shubov, Brandon Passanisi, Kinsley Wong, Szymon 
Sasin (ARM), Kalle Vayrynen (ARM), Norbert David (ARM) and Ville Oikarinen
(ARM).

Votes are due by 5th February 2014 10:00 PM Eastern US Time
			   (6th February 2014 03:00 GMT)

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