It has finally come to pass – the Open Connectivity Foundation and the AllSeen Alliance have agreed a merger, which sees their rather similar standards efforts combined inside the Linux Foundation. This is very big news for the device discovery and communication frameworks, which operate above the radio layers of the stack and hope to link IoT devices together in the wild. This is also good news for the IoT as a whole, as there were many stakeholders who suffered from moist brows with the prospect of entrenched and protracted standards wars. When the OIC first burst onto the scene, in the days before its rebranding to the OCF, the prevailing narrative was that the IoT’s fractured state wasn’t going…