Call for FIA Working Groups

FIA Steering Committee on behalf and with support from European Commission is calling for FIA working groups as follows:

Future Internet Assembly is mostly known for its conferences, but in between conferences, collaboration among projects and individuals is encouraged through FIA Working Groups with membership from multiple FP7 project teams and multiple domains.

Each project is expected to contribute to at least one technical WG. Current working groups are:

• Roadmapping, see fisa.future-internet.eu/index.php/FIA_Research_Roadmap

• (Pre-)Standardisation, fisa.future-internet.eu/index.php/FIA_Standardisation_Support

• International Collaboration see fisa.future-internet.eu/index.php/FIA_International_Cooperation

• FI Architectures, ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/research/fiarch/index_en.htm

• Management and Service-aware Networking Architectures, see reservoir.cs.ucl.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/FIA_MANA_Members/WebHome; email: fia-mana(at)ee.ucl.ac.uk

• Linked Open Data, linkeddata.future-internet.eu

• Enterprises, services.future-internet.eu/index.php/Enterprises

• Real World Internet, see rwi.future-internet.eu/index.php/Main_Page

• Trust and Security security.future-internet.eu/index.php/Main_Page

• Services services.future-internet.eu/index.php/Main_Page

• Future Content Networks, see www.gatv.ssr.upm.es/nextmedia/index.php/nextmediagroups/fcn

• Socio Economics, seehttp://fisa.future-internet.eu/index.php/Future_Internet_Socio_Economics

• FIA Book, www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly/fia-book-2012.html

It is time to take stock of the work done by existing working groups. Can they please send to a short overview of the results they have achieved? See the issue above, call for FIA results.

In addition, it is time to review the functioning of each working group. Is the initial goal achieved or is additional work necessary? If so, what is the plan for the remaining work? Therefore the Steering Committee asks that each working group sends a short email to infso-future-internet@ec.europa.eu before 31st March 2012 with the following information:

• Working group wants to continue
  
  • If yes, an updated terms of Reference of the working group (rational, scope, activities, results, work plan for the coming period, how people can get involved) needs to be published on an open web site on www.future-internet.eu/home/fisa-futureinternetsupportactions.html.

• Working group is ready and does not want to continue:
  
  • The open website on www.future-internet.eu/home/fisa-futureinternetsupportactions.html should clearly contain the results of the work and it should be indicated that this group is no longer active.

• A new working group wants to start:
  
  • Send the terms of reference containing terms rational, scope, activities, expected results, work plan for the coming period, how people can get involved to the Steering Committee and they will advice on how to proceed.

Special attention will be given to WGs, which cover:

• Synergistic, systemic and architectural  aspects across projects and cross-domain boundaries.
• New concepts enabling better incorporation , integration and usage of the communication-centric, information-centric, resource-centric, content–centric, service/computation- centric, context-centric faces of future internet

The output of the WGs will be published as pre-normative specification of the Future Internet. Contributing projects will be explicitly acknowledged and encouraged to contribute as part of they work program.