Among the many often overlapping standards efforts in the IoT, oneM2M can fairly claim to be the most all-embracing, bringing together the efforts of seven official standards organizations and five industry alliances to create a common layer of basic specifications. This ‘super-standards body’ has issued its Release 1, which is made up of 10 specs addressing core IoT and machine-to-machine building blocks such as security, messaging protocols and APIs (application programming interfaces). It said in a statement: “Release 1 provides sufficient building blocks to enable today’s generation of M2M and IoT applications to interwork with each other.” It has largely based its offering on existing technologies from its members and contributors, but even so, that represents a massive effort, with…