Thread goes open source, offering a viable de facto standard for IoT communications.
This article makes me a lot more exciting for Android Things. In particular, if people start building 6LoWPAN devices - light switches, sockets, crockpots, all the stuff that WiFi is being put into - we might actually see the Internet being extended down the the device level. I.e. we’d have an Internet of Things.
By using open source code to establish a de facto standard, Nest has taken a big step to commoditizing the raw connectivity necessary to make networked sensors work well. If successful, the next step will be to move up the protocol stack and define standard ways of communicating information and events, shifting networking from moving low-level packets to moving high-level concepts, which is in many ways the next frontier in networking.
