D08 - Kick-off meeting report Call 1 - executive summary
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This deliverable encompasses the FP6 IST Call 1 kick-off
meeting targeted objectives and methodology that has been
followed, as well as the subsequent steps that have been taken in
order to organize the meeting. The report, together with the
actual information gathered and analyzed during the process, aims
to serve as a basis for further activity in COPRAS and
establishes the starting point for the development of appropriate
standardization paths for projects in Call 1, starting end of
October 2004. The main objective of the kick off meeting was to
jump-start cooperation between (groups of) research projects and
standardization working groups. The kick off meeting therefore
focused on the following issues:
- defining commonalities between standardization issues
addressed by projects;
- defining projects actual ' timing and
resources";
- defining the actual nature of planned contributions to
standardization (i.e. formal specifications, guidelines, other
contributions, etc.);
- defining what relevant standardization working groups are
actually planning to do in the areas identified;
- defining high-level steps jump-starting the WP4 work (who
is going to draft certain contributions, etc.);
- identifying the right people within the research project
consortia actually working on specific standards issues (e.g.
to include them in mailing lists).
The deliverable describes the methodology followed when
preparing and organizing the kick-off meeting as well as the
steps that have been taken during this process.
- definition of clusters of projects that have a similar
focus with respect to standardization and to their grouping
into parallel kick-off meeting break-out sessions;
- organization of "kick-off
pre-meetings' between COPRAS project team
members and individual projects to better prepare the kick-off
meeting, as well as to obtain a better and more in-depth
understanding of the standardization issues projects touch upon
(and hence the standardization working groups they may benefit
from interfacing with);
- initial contacts of COPRAS project team with relevant
standards bodies;
- organization of the first COPRAS kick-off meeting with Call
1 projects that was held 14 October at the CEN/CENELEC Meeting
Centre in Brussels.
The deliverable provides a complete list of
participating projects and their representatives as well as
a list of invited standardization bodies and the EC
and the persons that represented them. It describes the focus of
the plenary sessions and 5 different break-out sessions that
covered the following areas/themes:
- Broadband access (also partly including PLC)
- Security issues
- Semantic-based systems and languages
- Smart houses and home networking (also partly including
PLC)
- eLearning.
Finally, the deliverable lists the results achieved and
conclusions drawn from the meeting, both at a generic as well as
on a more detailed ("break-out
cluster') level.
Rigo Wenning, Bert Bos
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