Miguel PdL

EU FP7 call 4 is open and a good starting point is the main ICT page.
The topics being covered in this call include
* Challenge 1 – Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures
* Challenge 2 – Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics
* Challenge 3 – Components, systems, engineering
* Challenge 5 – Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
* Challenge 6 – ICT for Mobility, Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency
* Challenge 7 – ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
* Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Although you have to watch out, there are specific objectives from these challenges which are being addressed so have a good look at the call fiche.

Call FP7-ICT-2007-2 has now closed.
And the biting of the finger nails begin.

Has the Stupid Network value proposition, prevailed? Is it based on intelligent end user devices, intelligent customers, employees whose intelligence is valued as a corporate asset, and companies that can learn?
A conclusion which was originally written during May 1997 by David S. Isenberg while an employee of AT&T Labs Research.
Now Mr Isenberg is back with some interesting insights on the network neutrality issues currently hitting America.

Well it’s been a week in the news, really the project has been up running for a number of months now, but IMS Arcs is officially lanuched with the Irish Government department releasing a statement last week that “Irish Researchers look to the future of mobile research”.
Some excellent cudos from Kevin and the team has ensured that this research project is already off to a good start.

Bill Malone from the BSc 3 in Computing class has just started with us, and will be with us for the summer developing a neat little solution for demonstrating Mobile IP.
In particular Bill will attempting to get a windows based, but Java developed, SIP client to work on linux and to then get Mobile IP enabled linux running on IPAQ5500. Once these two goals are reached then it is a case of putting them together, installing and running the client on the PDA, with the PDA using Mobile IP as it moves between two/three different network access points.
So first point to complete, SIP client on windows was achieved, however tyhe second task is proving harder then initially expected.

Technorati Profile

I’ve given an overview to projects at are in their early start up phase, well ENABLE is right in the thick of action, and we had its first year project review with the EC in the week March 12th 2007.
How did it go? Great the project achieved very good technical results so far and is managed quite well.
Some notable comments from the reviewers include:

There has been a visible impact in the Internet community and the participation activity in IETF standardisation has been remarkable.

A list of ENABLE Standards contributions can be selected off the website.

The project achieved all milestones in time and is well prepared for the final phase until the end of the year. The set of deliverables is very good.

A list of ENABLE deliverables can also be downloaded from the project website

The American Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released a special publication NIST SP 500-267 A Profile for IPv6 in the U.S. Government – Version 1.0 (DRAFT), which aims to provide a profile to assist [US] federal agencies in developing plans to acquire and deploy products that implement Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
The objective of the profile is to:
(a) define a simple taxonomy of common network devices;
(b) define their minimal mandatory IPv6 capabilities and identify significant options so as to assist agencies in the development of more specific acquisition and deployment plans; and,
(c) provide the basis to further define the technical meaning of specific policies.
The findings reported in the profile include
1. A core set of IPv6 standards & capabilities.
2. the need for product testing services to ensure the confidence and to protect the investment of early IPv6 adopters.
3. The current state of IPv6 security technologies and operational knowledge.
4. The manner for accommodating the USG technical and process requirements in a distinct profile and testing program.
5. Identification of aome key IPv6 design issues which remain unresolved.
This NIST SP 500-267 is available at: http://www.antd.nist.gov/usgv6-v1-draft.pdf (app/pdf)

It is always good to weight up the pros and cons of new protocols and this presentation by Jason Schiller Network Operator Concerns of SHIM6 (application/pdf gives a great overview of the worries of Inter-AS traffic engineering with SHIM6 in its current form.

I’ve just being looking in on the DEMO.com Video & Archives for 2007 where there are some very interesting presentations from companies “Making Mobile Work” and “Taking it to the Streets” the best from my perspective Nuvoiz SoftPhone and Crickett