Internet of Things

Some quick thoughts on machine-generated and -consumed data (as opposed to documents) being the next phase of the development of the web. First thing that comes to mind is, this will require our infrastructure to be more intelligent, such as using feedback control systems to regulate the machine-to-machine flow of data. See, for example, "Black-Box Performance Control for High-Volume Non-Interactive Systems". Also, a human user navigating pages on the web (or using a search engine to go directly to the desired content) is a request-response style of interaction. HTTP does this quite well. However, data being generated by machines in the real world and consumed by machines suggests a publish-subscribe or at least a hybrid request-response, publish-subscribe style of interaction, a task for which protocols like XMPP are suited.