The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) has released the Candidate Specification of its IoT specification, the code that will be converted into the IoTivity open source implementation. The candidate specification is effectively a pre-release version, and is used to spot any intellectual property conflicts that could arise in a sixty day window. Speaking to Kim Lewis (Intel), Scott Lofgren (Intel mobile group and UPnP Forum president), and Wouter van der Beek (Cisco principal software engineer and UPnP VP), we asked whether anything in the candidate spec was likely to be changed or challenged by lawyers, and were told that it was extremely unlikely. As such, the spec should be finalized by the end of October. The group noted that its cloud-native…