Two years ago when we started our own IoT publication RIoT, there was another framework popping up every day. It was always going to hinder, rather than help IoT getting off the ground, but vested interests need a chance to build perspective and work out what they can reasonably achieve on their platforms. It seems that today two of the largest IoT frameworks which focus on device discovery and communications have merged – the Open Connectivity Foundation and the AllSeen Alliance. You need these frameworks so that any type of device on any type of network can understand what has just been said by a remote device, so that it knows how to react. They were rather similar standards efforts…