Hardly a month goes by without a new communications protocol staking its claim for a critical role in the IoT. These may be in the wide, local or personal area network, and each one usually, beneath the big vision statements, has quite particular strengths and target use cases. This makes efforts like OneM2M important, as they seek to create cross-platform protocols to allow these many networks to interwork, and to protect early adopters from technology dead ends. This defines an abstraction layer between applications and the various network protocols and was created as a joint effort between a bewildering array of standards bodies and industry alliances. Its idea was to accelerate its development by reusing elements from its stakeholders’ existing…