Google's Nest is leading a 3rd IoT standard group Posted by scdna on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @06:37AM from the threadgroup.org dept. http://www.threadgroup.org/ ( 1 comment | 5 points | on HN )
The difference seems that The Thread Group is solely focusing on the network protocol [3] and not a full IoT platform like AllSeen and OIC.
And apparently, Nest thermostats are already running a version (is it the final one?) of the Thread protocol.
[1] https://allseenalliance.org/
[2] http://www.openinterconnect.org/
[3] http://www.threadgroup.org/Technology.aspx