Subject: [icnrg] Survey/concept/design choices draft: open discussion

From: Paulo Mendes <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:28:13 +0000

Dear all

The ICNRG meeting in Kista is approaching and since I'm not able to attend, I would like to sum up in this email the discussion around the initially called "Survey draft" (this is still the name in the meeting agenda). Besides the emails exchanged in the mailing list, Dirk Trossen, Karen Sollins and myself have been exchanging some thoughts aiming to identify at least what the draft can be and what the draft should not be.

As you may remember the discussion started when I suggested to call the draft "ICN Concept", based on my understanding that we do not need another survey on ICN. After this first step, we reached (I think) to an agreement and a disagreement, which is good:
a) we agree that we do not need another ICN survey.
b) we disagree about the term "ICN Concept" 

In a second step I think that we clarified that the document should not be another survey and should not aim to define a full fledge ICN Concept.

Currently it seems that we are tending to an agreement that the document should aim to find significant differences between what we want and what we need in terms of an ICN architecture. This may be an useful contribution that complements the other two drafts (e.g. the "research challenges" draft tends to focus on what we want to pursuit in several areas related to ICN).  

This draft may try to check what is really needed as architectural design choices. The output of the drat may be used later on to work on a "reference model", as I mentioned before, if this will be (still) a milestone. However, we agree that this is not the right time to aim towards a reference model.

At the moment what we need is some understanding if this is really a useful contribution to ICNRG before joining effort to work around a revised outline. So, I would propose to use the 10 min slot in Kista to open the floor and discuss what we really what to achieve with this draft.

Cheers
Paulo 

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Paulo Mendes, Ph.D
Scientific Director for Innovation of the Research Unit in Informatics Systems and Technologies (SITILabs)
Director of the Ph.D program on Informatics - New Media and Pervasive Systems (NEMPS)
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