This Recommendation provides the common requirements and capabilities of device management (DM) in the Internet of things (IoT). The provided common requirements and capabilities are intended to be generally applicable in device management application scenarios. The scope of this Recommendation includes: 1) Common requirements of device management in the IoT. 2) Common capabilities of device management in the IoT. NOTE ?C This Recommendation focuses on the requirements of DM for the interaction between devices and the various DM functional components. The DM client@ a functional component optionally present in some IoT applications@ and its specific requirements are outside of the scope of this Recommendation.