Summary

Recommendation ITU-T Y.4001/F.748.2 describes machine socialization, which enables machines to cooperate with one another via their relations with other machines. In machine socialization, machines can be identified, can communicate and can capture data using machine identifiers, features of machine capabilities and machine owners, etc. Machines can be socialized with the information of identified machines through the establishment of relations. This Recommendation provides an overview, requirements and a reference model for machine socialization.