COPRAS Aggregate Results Call 1

Overview

Broadband for all

Project acronym General issues Standardisation issues addressing specific areas Additional remarks
1.1: Will your project deliver technologies, specifications or other outputs that are intended to be European or global standards or otherwise may contribute to standardisation work and if so, could you list in which areas? 1.2 : Does your project have specific work packages addressing activities required to interface with standards bodies and if so, how many man/months are budgeted for this? 1.3: Is your project in the process of deploying or coordinating standardisation re-lated activity with other IST projects either in FP6 or other Framework Pro-grammes and if so, could you please list the other projects involved? 1.4: Is your project already in the process of deploying standardisation related activity in coordination with one of more standards bodies or industry consortia and if so, which activity does this concern and with organisations are involved? 2.1: Next generation Internet 2.2: Optical equipment 2.3: New optical network technologies 2.4: Broadband access via wireless and terrestrial infrastructures 2.5: Broadband access through advanced satellite communications 2.6: Broadband access through fixed copper and CATV networks 2.7: Power line communications 2.8: Measurement & testing equipment, tools & procedures 2.9: Other 3: Additional remarks
Standards body Activity
ATHENA
BREAD BREAD will, as a coordination action will collect information from other sources, pro-jects and bodies and from internal research and will contribute to the standardisation process. More specifically in the area of "BroadBand for all": ETSI TISPAN AND NGN activities; DVB related activities (TM, DVB-H and IPI); IETF and ITU The project has 2 workpackages related to Broadband studies (technological studies and socio- & techno-economic studies); out of these workpackages links are foreseen to standardisation bodies, and first contacts have been taken with the projects related to "Broadband for all", and standards associations BREAD, being a coordination action, has one objective to act as a representative and liaise for other FP6 projects related to "broadband for all" in standardisation bodies in 2 ways: to support projects in their action towards standardisation; to inform projects about possible standard actions; to provide roadmaps for standards when necessary ETSI DVB IETF ITU IEEE Contacts taken with ETSI to identify activities related to the "broadband for all" ac-tivity Contacts initiated Still to be done Still to be done Active (in the areas relative to home and access) Guidelines and possible contributions coming from projects Guidelines and possible contributions coming from projects Guidelines and possible contributions coming from projects Guidelines and possible contributions coming from projects; for the Wireless broadband access the standards for merging wire-based (e.g. Gigabit Ethernet Standard) and wireless networks at Gigabit/s speed are of importance. In case of Gigabit transmission there are activities within WPAN IEEE802.15 working group Guidelines and possible contributions coming from projects Guidelines and possible contributions coming from projects Guidelines and possible contributions coming from projects We think BREAD can cooperate with COPRAS in an efficient way in the " Broadband for all" area; i) by interfacing the project on standardisation aspects, as it is already one objective of BREAD and ii) in providing roadmaps for standards and identifying most relevant standardisation issues
BROADWAN Broadband access focussing on wireless solutions for fixed and nomadic users; IPv6 broadband access networking. A workpackage deals with international standards strategy and internal coordination with the effort budget of 21.5 person months. This is envisaged, particularly towards next generation broadband wireless access. Currently no concrete plans, however foreseen possibilities with FP5 projects STRIKE and STINGRAY, FP6 projects MUSE and GANDALF, and within the cluster "Broadcast and multicast" if decided established. ETSI HIPERMAN IEEE WiMAX ITU-R Broadband wireless access Profile document Propagation information for access network design Aspects for DVB and IP in connection with broadcast/multicast. Radio over fibre base stations feeding. Next generation wireless access, at low and high frequencies such as 5.8 GHz and 42 GHz. Hybrid networking including wireless and wireline technologies. Radiowave propagation information for wireless access network design guidance. Experience from trials and future developments in the area of DVB-RCS. Broadband heterogeneous network architecture for affordable access making it possible ti reach all.
CAPANINA Broadband communications standards, e.g. IEEE 802.16, ETSI BRAN No No No The project will be examining the impact of future IP standards on a High Altitude Platform architecture Design and configuration of equipment suitable for demonstrating free space optical links Development of backhaul and interplatform free space optical links for use with high altitude platform Broadband access using mm-wave bands from High Altitude Platforms The high altitude platform architecture has many similarities with satellites; it is likely that some techniques and equipment deployments may look similar to a satellite architecture
COCOMBINE
DIADEM FIREWALL Security policies; broadband network architecture No No Not yet Not yet The project aims at specifying a new architecture for a Broadband operator network; this architecture is based on a distributed firewall and should cope with a number of distributed attacks, such as DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) for instance; therefore we believe that the DEFCon (Distributed/End-point Firewall Control) group is a good place to advertise the project results The IETF IPSP (IP Security Policies) working group deals with policy specification language, policy exchange and information models for security; participating in this workgroup could benefit greatly to the dissemination of the project work
E-PHOTON-ONE Optical networks in general, covering home networks, access networks, and backbone networks No specific WP is foreseen. Existing participation to standard bodies, in particular for operators and industrial partners. The technical annex mentions the possibility of integrated contributions to standards No IETF, IEEE, OIF, IEC, ITU-T, ETSI, CENELEC WDM networks; MPLS protocols; ASON (Automatically Switched Optical networks); protocols for new metro architectures Optical switching fabrics; optical cross connects; optical burst switches; optical packet switches Broadband transmission; optical switching; optical label swapping Optical access networks; wireless over fibre
Euro NGI
FLEXINET
GANDALF Simultaneous wireless and wireless transmission. The project will test different access techniques/modulation formats (e.g. DOCSIS for cable) and will study the possibility and the required modifications for using the same signal for wireless transmission In WP6 and WP7 it is expected to contribute to standardisation bodies No WiMAX Forum A preliminary contribution is expected on "efficient optical feeding WiMAX access points" Demonstration of simultaneous wireless and wireless access networks with Gb/s transmission capabilities Demonstration of low cost multifunction O/E devices (AFPM and EAT) in a realistic environment Demonstration of a novel optical feeder configuration for simultaneously feeding wireless and wireline access networks, with LO remoting capabilities and tolerant to chromatic dispersion effects Demonstration of wireless transmission of DOCSIS and GbE signals in the 5 GHz band and DOCSIS and Wi-Fi signals in the 40 GHz band (WiMAX) Demonstration of a novel optical feeder configuration for simultaneously feeding wireless and wireline access networks, with LO remoting capabilities and tolerant to chromatic dispersion effects, using low cost multifunction O/E devices (AFPM and EAT) at the base-station. A field trial will be deployed using a CATV operator network and transmission of DOCSIS signals will be realised. The project aims to demonstrate the possibility of simultaneously feeding the same information to a wireless and a wireline network, implementing a novel optical feeder that allows in a cost-effective approach to provide Gb/s information to an access node where the signals can be recovered and distributed through a wireline and a wireless network. The demonstration of wireless distribution of signals originally intended to wireline transmission can be of interest to several standardisation bodies
LASAGNE Lasagne results are expected to contribute to the definition of NGN (Next Generation Networks) using GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching), specifically in GMPLS architecture and GMPLS signalling. WP7 (Exploitation and dissemination) has one task (T7.6. Participation in standardisa-tion/roadmap activities) devoted to these activities. The number of man/months allo-cated are 6. No No None Study of migration scenarios from current networks to AOLS networks, in order to improve the broadband internet access. GMPLS, label swapping, optical packet networks, optical networking.
MOME
MUSE Access networks functional architectures, first mile solutions (DSL, Fibre access), Home gateway interworking with the access network No workpackage, but specific standardisation activity budgeted for 43 person/months No agreements with other projects yet. Possibly with BROADWAN and NOBEL ETSI, DSL Forum, ITU-T, (IETF, IEEE, MEF, DVB) Ipv6 in access Optical access networks; observing Metro network technology Access network architecture specifications; functional specifications for access nodes; physical layer specifications for DSL; physical layer specifications for fiber access Network architecture specifications; functional specifications for access nodes; physical layer specifications for DSL
NOBEL
OPERA
SATLIFE
SATNEX Satellite transmission & architectures, broadband Internet via satellite, multimedia via satellite, mobile inter-working Specific work activity (WP3300) in relation to Satellite and Internet standards relating to the Satellite Communications Network of Excellence (total man/months to be determined) Not yet IETF, ETSI, ASMF-TF Liaisons, working on future priorities Transport protocol design, QoS design Broadband via wireless and satellite stansmission systems; cross-layer link support for IP protocols Broadband via wireless and satellite transmission systems; Cross-Layer Link support for IP protocols; Design of next generation satellite systems Work Package 3300 will promote good practice in participation in standardisation. It will help direct the Network's research, bringing into focus the anticipated needs and recent developments in standardisation. The Work Package also plans to influence the standards process, by targeting improving results to key working groups participating in the development of satellite standards. The Network will promote this participation in standardisation by supporting attendance at meetings and co-ordination of activities, and through improved communication between researchers and standardisation working groups. We look forward to collaboration in these areas.
U-BROAD

Mobile & Wireless systems

Acronym General issues Standardisation issues addressing specific areas Additional remarks
1.1: Will your project deliver technologies, specifications or other outputs that are intended to be European or global standards or otherwise may contribute to standardisation work and if so, could you list in which areas? 1.2 : Does your project have specific work packages addressing activities required to interface with standards bodies and if so, how many man/months are budgeted for this? 1.3: Is your project in the process of deploying or coordinating standardisation re-lated activity with other IST projects either in FP6 or other Framework Pro-grammes and if so, could you please list the other projects involved? 1.4: Is your project already in the process of deploying standardisation related activity in coordination with one of more standards bodies or industry consortia and if so, which activity does this concern and with organisations are involved? 2.1: Transmission & reception equipment & components 2.2: Interconnection and inter-working of wireless infrastructures 2.3: Security, access control & content protection 2.4: Broadband radio access networks 2.5: Broadcasting and multicasting over 3G systems 2.6: Advanced satellite communication systems 2.7: Broadband wireless IP networking 2.8: Network & system management 2.9: Other 3: Additional remarks
Standards body Activity
4MORE The 4More project will deliver technologies focused on: Multi-antenna MC-CDMA broadband telecommunication. Targeted applications of the project results are new air interfaces for B3G (4G) mobile radio systems. However, the technology is also of interest for any broadband wireless communications system requiring high spectral efficiency. The 4More project has a dedicated work package dedicated to dissemination, includ-ing communication with standardization bodies. Its budget is 13 man/months 4More participates to the BAI cluster Not yet initiated Multi-antenna MC-CDMA technology including: Channel coding and modulation; MC-CDMA concept; Data detection, channel estimation and synchronization; RF front-end design; Multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas; Cellular aspects; System on chip design; The main focus is on layer 1 (PHY) and layer 2 (MAC), and its joint optimization and adapta-tion to IP traffic. Validation of the multi-standard concept with new architectures for base stations and mobile terminals Relevant but not explicitly addressed within the project Relevant but not explicitly addressed within the project The project is designing a concept for a new flexible B3G (or also called 4G) air inter-face and its scope can be split in two parts: 1. design of advanced algorithms for the B3G air interface 2. validation of the algorithms by system on chip design of the proposed scheme, having 1 base station and 2-3 mobile stations each with MIMO capabilities. The project is interested in standardisation activities towards a B3G (or 4G) system which includes a new broadband air interface. The new air interface can also comple-ment a multi standard solution.
ACE Work package 1.2-4 on "Recommendations for measurement procedures" in activity 1.2 on "Antenna Measurement Techniques and Facility Sharing"; this will address 3 areas: i) near-field antenna measurements; ii) smart antenna measurements and; iii) antenna measurement range validation 7 man/months No IEEE Contributions to the planned "Best Practices for Near-Field Antenna Measurments" Important to have standardised techniques/procedures for the characterization and calibration of antennas, hence the planned outcome of the work on near-field antenna measurements and smart antenna measurements will be important
B-BONE
DAIDALOS
E²R
EVEREST
MAESTRO The project will set up a test bed; a set of specifications will be delivered which will be used to contribute to standards: ETSI and 3GPP as well as to ITU A task within WP10 is interfacing with standardisation organisations, while other work packages are doing monitoring, or may prepare contributions, in their area of interest. 25 person/months are allocated here. Not at the moment; some contacts are envisaged with SATNEX network of excellence on the issue ETSI S-UMTS; 3GPP MBMS; OMA BCAST Mobile satellite systems; 3G mobile networks; mobile broadcast application enabling technologies for mobile and wireless sys-tems Specifications of the system investigated are direct inputs to the S-UMTS work group activity related to SDMB system Specifications of the system investigated are direct inputs to the ETSI S-UMTS work group activity related to SDMB system 3GPP SA4 and OMA BCAST are monitored to check compliance with S-DMB capabilities Specifications of the system investigated are used to influence the work carried on Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service in 3GPP Specifications of the system investigated are direct inputs to the ETSI S-UMTS work group activity related to SDMB system Minor issue addressed in ETSI S-UMTS work group activity related to SDMB system It is addressed in ETSI S-UMTS work group activity related to SDMB system
MAGNET
MOSSA
NEWCOM
OBAN Wireless LAN technology (802.11x); antenna technology 8 person/months No No
PHOENIX
PULSERS PULSERS intends to contribute to suitable European (e.g., ETSI) as well as world-wide standards organizations (e.g., IEEE, ISO) in the area of short-range wireless systems based on Ultra-wideband (UWB) Radio Technology (UWB-RT). The project's technical results will be exploited, particularly in the areas of Physical Layer (PHY) and Medium Access Control (MAC) for High Data Rate/Very High Data Rate (HDR/VHDR) and Low Data Rate with Location Tracking (LDR-LT) UWB radio devices Work Package 6 (WP6) of PULSERS is dedicated to "Regulation and Standards" with a man/months (MM) budget for the standards activities of 20 (twenty) MM within Phase 1 of the project (24 months: 01. 01. 2004 to 31. 12. 2005) At this time, this is an open question; once relevant technical results become available such possible relations to suitable FP6 projects (e.g., WINNER, E2R) or other organi-zations will be considered IEEE 802.15.3a; IEEE 802.15.4a; ETSI TG31A Individual PULSERS members participate in IEEE at the technical level and/or in leadership functions PULSERS has started to track European and world-wide standardization processes related to UWB-RT and plans to contribute to and/or initiate new PHY/MAC standards for HDR/VHDR and LDR-LT UWB radio devices. The project will also analyze effects of possible system constraints imposed by emerging (European) regulations by analyzing and developing concepts for HDR/VHDR and LDR-LT devices. The requirements for a joint HDR/LDR-LT device standard enabling some degree of interoperability will also be investigated Within Phase 1 of the project, dealing mainly with PHY/MAC technology issues, this area is not specifically addressed; however, this area will become an important aspect in later phases of the project. Within Phase 1 of the project, dealing mainly with PHY/MAC technology issues, this area is not specifically addressed; however, this area may be addressed in a later project phase. Within Phase 1 of the project, dealing mainly with PHY/MAC technology issues, this area is not specifically addressed; however, this area may be addressed in a later project phase. Within Phase 1 of the project, dealing mainly with PHY/MAC technology issues, this area is not specifically addressed; however, this area will be addressed in a later project phase
SIDEMIRROR
SIMPLICITY Smart cards, high-layer re-configurability, service personalization, service portability, service adaptability, service discovery, user profile definition and handling, user mobility, orchestration of heterogeneous networks (operator side), spontaneous networking No Not yet Not yet GSM and UMTS SIM; Bluetooth; high-layer re-configurability; adaptation of user devices Orchestration/self-configuration of heterogeneous networks operated by a single operator; network dimensioning and reconfiguration using user preference/profile data; user/terminal profile definition and handling; distributed storage; distributed service provisioning Middleware re-configurability: application and content reconfiguration using user/terminal profiles; user/terminal profile definition and handling; broker architectures to support application reconfiguration and profile handling
SPECTRUM
UBISEC
WIDENS
WINDECT
WINNER
WWI AMBIENT NETWORKS

A global security framework

Acronym General issues Standardisation issues addressing specific areas Additional remarks
1.1: Will your project deliver technologies, specifications or other outputs that are intended to be European or global standards or otherwise may contribute to standardisation work and if so, could you list in which areas? 1.2 : Does your project have specific work packages addressing activities required to interface with standards bodies and if so, how many man/months are budgeted for this? 1.3: Is your project in the process of deploying or coordinating standardisation re-lated activity with other IST projects either in FP6 or other Framework Pro-grammes and if so, could you please list the other projects involved? 1.4: Is your project already in the process of deploying standardisation related activity in coordination with one of more standards bodies or industry consortia and if so, which activity does this concern and with organisations are involved? 2.1: Security architectures 2.2: Cards and personal identification 2.3: Standards & guidelines for a security framework 2.4: Network security 2.5: Secure transactions & payments 2.6: Algorithms & encryption 2.7: Electronic signatures 2.8: Privacy 2.9: Other 3: Additional remarks
Standards body Activity
BioSec Smart cards with biometric match-on-card technology; development of biometric identification tokens; biometric multimodality and biometric data fusion; development of applications related to biometric identification (Biometric APIs) 5 man/months for monitoring standards Yes, with eEPOCH project, concerning interoperability of electronic identification tokens No Interoperability in security procedures and best practices; interaction between biometrics and PKI Definition of architectures for (biometric) match-on-token smart cards; definition of a token API for biometric verification.; development of biometric identification tokens: SmartCards and USB tokens Biometric sensors and technologies; identification devices Biometric-enable authentication protocols; biometrics in network protocols: IPSec, SSL Security of biometric template transmission and storage; security on handling biometric samples; potential use of biometrics in e-commerce and e-government Algorithms for iris, fingerprint, face, speaker recognition, 3D geometry and biometrics multi-modality Integration of biometrics in eSignK, PKCS #11 and #15 Biometric user template; integration of privacy in technology solutions; user personal data BioSec activities are closely related to other standardisation activities in ISO concern-ing biometrics and electronic identity, and the project is interested in exchanging infor-mation with participants in those standardisation activities
Digital Passport ICAO Document 9303, parts 1 & 2; ICAO Document 9303, NWTG defined electronic Visa; ISO 14443, parts 1 through 4; ISO 7816, part 15; ISO 15408; FIPS 140 from NIST; ISO SC37/WG3: Defined biometric templates, 1st draft; (these standards are not connected to the testing programme) 16 person/months All projects concerning global standards within the Digital and Biometrical Passport-area, i.e ICAO-standards Not yet Security concept for the EU electronic passport (and related documents); system architecture for the EU electronic passport Minimum requirements on security measures for electronic ID documents Mechanical reliability; Common Criteria Protection Profile: Machine readable travel documents Interfacing with data-banks concerning confidential information; security guidelines for person data interchange between national organizations located in-side or outside the nation (from security concept / protection profile) Use of electronic signatures in the EU electronic passport (from security concept / protection profile) Ethical issues; protection of data privacy and control over personal data, especially for biometric data (from security concept / protection profile) White Paper on process, logistic and document requirements ensuring the security of pass-port issuing; white paper on required key management for ID documents (from security concept / protec-tion profile)
ECRYPT
eJustice
FIDIS
INSPIRED
MEDSI
POSITIF
PRIME
SCARD
SecurE-JUSTICE Standards for protecting video streaming (encryption, non repudiation and watermarking) No No No Integration between SIP infrastructure and PKI Smart cards Video watermarking; real time non repudiation Real time video encryption Digital signature; digital certificate distribution
SECURE PHONE
SECOQC
SEINIT SEINIT develops a trusted and dependable security framework, ubiquitous, working across multiple devices and heterogeneous networks, being organisation independent (inter-operable) and centred around an end-user. Dissemination, standardisation and publications are part of one work package. Few man months are allocated to the standards follow-up, participation in standards meetings, co-ordination and contribution. Partners participate in IETF mainly and some have contacts to ETSI. Relations/clustering activity with other IST projects like DAIDALOS and POSITIF IETF working groups IPv6 MIP6 (return routability) PANA SEND (CGA) Security SEINIT delivers new Security models to design innovative security architectures, the security policies addressing the existing and coming threats, and the components to build network infrastructures. Smart cards usage is not part of our activities. However, we define INFOSPHERES for dif-ferent areas such as personal, enterprise etc.. In such model smart card usage is considered as one possibility SEINIT delivers guidelines and best practices manuals that facilitate the spreading of security technologic results. SEINIT is related to Network security. SEINIT defines new security models and policies to address the new issues of the pervasive computing world. They are implemented over IPv6 infrastructures to cover various business cases and assessed against real life scenarios. The project will analyze different applications and its actual support for security functionalities and then will implement some prototypes that clearly shown how the IPv6 security support could be used in the applications. Security is the main goal that includes all types of transactions including payments The models are implemented through a policy paradigm and approach and tools are defined and designed to insure the consistency among them. Such policy may result to particular algorithms and encryption technologies. One of the issue considered but not an important issue in isolation. Project results will ensure affordable security services, maintaining an adequate security level without infringing a user's right to privacy. Project is considering V2V (Virtual to Virtual) virtualization paradigm aiming to inspire trust and ensure the security of heterogeneous "infospheres", communities, networks and infrastructures. The V2V virtualization paradigm is for creating an end-to-end, progressively adaptive security system across heterogeneous and mobile virtual worlds. Virtualization is a powerful principle used to conceive a heterogeneous computerized reality in a different manner by reducing its visible complexity. SEINIT is interested to co-operate with other related projects in the area. SEINIT also expects a regular feedback from standardisation organisations through COPRAS: We highly appreciate if you can circulate important issues of discussion in various stan-dards groups, so that we can consider closer collaboration with those corresponding bodies/organisations/projects.

Multimodal interfaces

Project Acronym General issues Standardisation issues addressing specific areas Additional remarks
1.1: Will your project deliver technologies, specifications or other outputs that are intended to be European or global standards or otherwise may contribute to standardisation work and if so, could you list in which areas? 1.2 : Does your project have specific work packages addressing activities required to interface with standards bodies and if so, how many man/months are budgeted for this? 1.3: Is your project in the process of deploying or coordinating standardisation re-lated activity with other IST projects either in FP6 or other Framework Pro-grammes and if so, could you please list the other projects involved? 1.4: Is your project already in the process of deploying standardisation related activity in coordination with one of more standards bodies or industry consortia and if so, which activity does this concern and with organisations are involved? 2.1: Multimodal interaction management 2.2: Protocols 2.3: Web technology & languages 2.4: Speech recognition & natural language processing 2.5: Speech synthesis 2.6: Intermodal coordination 2.7: Content abstraction and definition 2.8: Human-computer interaction interfaces 2.9: Other 3: Additional remarks
Standards body Activity
AMI Not clear yet No specific work package, but one of the topics in "technology transfer" No - striving to use W3C specifications where appropriate, though W3C Not clear yet but W3C is project partner
CHIL This has not been explicitly planned to date No No; however, a co-ordination with the project TC Star may be helpful No None Audio transcription and annotation: meta data, description of non-speech sounds, data formats Any inputs to a standardization process would probably not be available earlier than the end of 2004. A decision to submit results to a formal standardization process could be taken during 2004 when technical work is more advanced.
DIVINES
ENACTIVE
HUMAINE
HIWIRE
MATRIS
MWeb Yes - VoiceXML, Multimodal Web Interaction, Device independent Web authoring and content negotiation for new Web devices Yes - about 37 person months Not at the moment - one potential outcome of the project is to inform and potentially involve other EU projects in the multimodal action line in the W3C standardization work W3C OMA Voice Browsing, Multimodal Interaction, Device Independence Multimodal Interaction, Device Independence Multimodal Interaction: EMMA, InkML Device Independence: CC/PP, Device-independent authoring, Core presentation attributes Voice Browsing: VoiceXML, SRGSSemantic Interpretation, V3 Voice Browsing: SSML Multimodal Interaction: EMMA Device Independence: Device-independent authoring Multimodal Interation, Voice Browsing all concern this area
PASCAL
SIMILAR Yes, in multimodal interfaces; main contributions could be in "open interface", open sources reusable multimodal interfaces modules; applications for medical applications are the most likely targets Not specific but several WPs have standards implications ( 2 man/month? But not de-tailed in the contract) The openinterface project will likely imply people from the HUMAINE and maybe the PASCAL NoEs Not yet The Openinterface initiative may issue several good practice rules for interface management, design and usability tests; details will be given in the next months on www.openinterface.org (not yet activated) Disabled people interfaces (VoiceXml, others…) Disabled people interfaces (VoiceXml, others…) The Openinterface initiative will work on this issue; results/outputs not yet known or even forecasted The Openinterface initiative will work on this issue; results/outputs not yet known or even forecasted but will mainly be about context-aware adaptation, usability and testing
TAI-CHI
TALK We will contribute to existing standards for annotation of multimodal dialogues - extend-ing them where necessary. For example the annotation standards developed in NITE XML, DAMSL, EMMA, and DISC. Please see pages 15 and 16 of the TALK technical annex. We also aim to use and extend existing standards for speech recognition gram-mars, ontologies, speech synthesis and multimodal markup No No No Annotation of multimodal dialogues e.g. NITE XML, DAMSL, EMMA, DISC; TALK will produce an annotation handbook for multimodal dialogues; development of multimodal dialogue system components and interface definitions. e.g. SRGS, SSML, ToBI, APML, SABLE, M3L, OAA; all TALK partners share the "Information State Update" (ISU) approach to dialogue manage-ment (e.g. TrindiKit, DIPPER, DELFOS, GODIS); this may lead to a standard for respresenting and manipulating context for multimodal dialogue management Speech recognition systems: ATK, HTK; speech recognition grammar formats: e.g. SRGS, ABNF Speech synthesis systems: Festival; speech Synthesis Markup Languages: ToBi, APML, SABLE We are working on generation of information across multiple modalities in dialogue Ontology-based dialogue systems and reconfigurability; e.g. DAML/OIL ontology specifications, plug'n'play (UPnP) DIPPER dialogue manager; other ISU-based dialogue managers. e.g. TrindiKit; see previous items Machine learning of dialogue strategies - reinforcement learning technologies; in-car and in-home dialogue systems
TC-STAR
T'n D

Semantic based knowledge system

Acronym General issues Standardisation issues addressing specific areas Additional remarks
1.1: Will your project deliver technologies, specifications or other outputs that are intended to be European or global standards or otherwise may contribute to standardisation work and if so, could you list in which areas? 1.2 : Does your project have specific work packages addressing activities required to interface with standards bodies and if so, how many man/months are budgeted for this? 1.3: Is your project in the process of deploying or coordinating standardisation re-lated activity with other IST projects either in FP6 or other Framework Pro-grammes and if so, could you please list the other projects involved? 1.4: Is your project already in the process of deploying standardisation related activity in coordination with one of more standards bodies or industry consortia and if so, which activity does this concern and with organisations are involved? 2.1: Web-based knowledge exchange systems & tools 2.2: Internet search technologies, tools & systems 2.3: Agent-based computing 2.4: Semantic web supportive languages 2.5: Data, information & content representation technologies & tools 2.6: Knowledge management systems & tools 2.7: Classification & cataloguing systems & tools 2.8: Reasoning systems 2.9: Other 3: Additional remarks
Standards body Activity
aceMedia
AgentLink III
AIM@SHAPE AIM@SHAPE is aimed at contributing to existing standards (MPEG, W3D, W3C, STEP); it is also aimed at contributing to the standardization of semantics for shapes WP 8, Openess, is dedicated to spread excellence of activities; task 8.5 is particularly oriented towards the contribution of the NoE to standards and suggestions derived from the metadata specification about shapes will be proposed to the related standard communities; the total of man/months budgeted for the first 18 Months is 7.5 This is one of the tasks of WP8 (beside task 8.5 dedicated to standards, task 8.6 is dedicated to the coordination with other EC initiatives); we are interested and willing to establish collaborations with projects related to the semantics of shapes MPEG Attendance and contribution to official meetings Definition of shape ontologies in specific contexts; to propose and develop ontologies for modeling digital shapes and their semantics in key applied sectors; up to now, the efforts in this direction only touch the visual appearance of 3D objects (geometry) but not the meaning of a shape in a specific sector The Digital Shape Workbench will be made of a shape models repository and a set of digital shape processing tools; the user will be able to search and retrieve models and tools Delineation of methods for knowledge-based design of shapes; definition of shape behaviors which formalize the interoperability between shapes; discussions and information exchange about metadata describing models of digital shape data and digital tools for processing digital shapes will be carried out, focusing on the identification of AIM@SHAPE file formats and exchange protocols for mod-els; preliminary proposals on metadata for digital shape will also be provided, cover-ing mainly the geometry of the shapes; metadata will be drafted on the basis of the existing libraries for digital shape processing For the next generation of semantic-enabled systems and services, we foresee a generation of shape models in which knowledge/semantics is explicitly represented and, therefore, can be effectively retrieved, shared, exploited, and used to construct new knowledge; the innovation will be measured against the existence of a coherent and integrated Digital Shape Workbench (DSW) and its use as an e-Science framework of tools and services for modeling, processing and interpreting digital shapes Formalization of shape knowledge; definition of a common vocabulary or glossary which will be used to characterize digital shapes; discussions will be promoted and solutions proposed for a joint vision on the concepts of shape, shape complexity, shape descriptions and shape termi-nology; in addition, a shape ontology will be developed Definition of tools for semantics-dependent mapping of shapes
ALVIS
ASPIC
DIP
DIRECT-INFO Within DIRECT-INFO MPEG-7 will be used as a metadata standard; for this purpose the by JOANNEUM RESEARCH developed MPEG-7 library (available for free download under http://iis.joanneum.at/mpeg-7) will be utilized and extended No No MPEG-7 JRS is associate member of SCHEMAS and the MPEG-7 industry forum (MPEGIF) The Competence Center Semantic Web (CCSW) of partner DFKI (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz) contributes to the SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language) initiative
KB20
KNOWLEDGE WEB
METOKIS
MUSCLE
REWERSE
SEKT
SIMAC Yes, in Music content description Not work packages, but some deliverables amounting approximately 10 per-sons/month. We would like to coordinate, at this level, with Semantic HiFi A tool for hybrid (manual/automatic) annotating of music contents from audio files; a tool for organizing and visualizing music collections by intensive usage of semantic de-scriptors Development of ontologies for the Semantic Web, and MPEG-7 extensions for describing music contents at the semantic level Development of semantic descriptors of music content; development of tools for automatic creation and testing of semantic descriptors of music audio content

Networked audiovisual systems

Acronym General issues Standardisation issues addressing specific areas Additional remarks
1.1: Will your project deliver technologies, specifications or other outputs that are intended to be European or global standards or otherwise may contribute to standardisation work and if so, could you list in which areas? 1.2 : Does your project have specific work packages addressing activities required to interface with standards bodies and if so, how many man/months are budgeted for this? 1.3: Is your project in the process of deploying or coordinating standardisation re-lated activity with other IST projects either in FP6 or other Framework Pro-grammes and if so, could you please list the other projects involved? 1.4: Is your project already in the process of deploying standardisation related activity in coordination with one of more standards bodies or industry consortia and if so, which activity does this concern and with organisations are involved? 2.1: Intelligent home architectures, systems & applications 2.2: Quality management & convergence of multimedia content 2.3: Tools & applications for home platform management 2.4: Storage, security & access management of content & networks 2.5: User interfaces & displays 2.6: Infrastructures, transport & protocols 2.7: Interfaces between systems, terminals & networked devices 2.8: Network & privacy management 2.9: Other 3: Additional remarks
Standards body Activity
COHERENT The project intends to create a new networked holographic display environment that supports collaborative 3D interactive work between geographically distributed teams; the design of the basic networked audio-visual components will be driven by two innovative demanding applications, a collaborative medical visualization system and a collaborative design review system for the automotive industry. Some aspects of the systems developed on this project are both innovative and new to the display technology field and to the healthcare and CAD applications domain. These could, therefore, contribute to the basis of de facto standards and protocols used in the future. Activities related to 3D format developments are also playing an important role within COHERENT project No No None None Projection based large scale holographic 3D display environment (hardware and software elements); design and implement a working high-resolution display in the one-meter size range based on innovative holographic techniques that can present, at natural human interaction scale, realistic animated 3D images to an unlimited number of freely moving simultaneous viewers; holographic audio-visual platforms, which will be distributed in remote places connected via high-speed network; camera based tracking module to make collaborative 3D interaction among mul-tiple teams in real time Deliverable 5 (public report) gives an overview and a comparative evaluation of the hardware and software systems currently used in networked medical diagnostics and automotive de-sign, and it includes a description on the key standards used in the collaborative 3D process; state of the art report on 3D Collaborative Systems Deliverable 6 (public report) discusses recent and ongoing standardization work on 3D formats, available 3D data structures and developments related to 3D animation. It gives a detailed overview on key players, main consortia and their activities, which promote develop-ment related to 3D software and 3D hardware devices; state-of-the-art report recent and on-going 3DAV and Web3D standardization work Participants of the COHERENT project are open to interfacing with standard bodies, and hopefully the collaborative work between research/development community and standard bodies will speed up the generic and applied research in the IST field
DANAE MPEG-21 (Scalable Video Codec activity, Digital Item Adaptation, Digital Item Processing); MPEG-4 (Audio, Laser, AFX) Some tasks in WP7 are devoted to this (Task 7.2, 15.5 mms for 11 partners) Systems Chair, Video Chair, 2 Heads of Delegation in MPEG in the project MPEG Mentioned under 1.1 MPEG-21 architecture [guidelines, best practice, specification]; Video coding [specification]; Audio coding [specification]; Dynamic and Distributed adaptation of scalable multimedia content technologies [specification]; Error-resiliency[specification]; Context-awareness [best practice, specification]; Digital Item Processing [specification]; Session mobility[best practice, specification] Adaptation of encrypted content Other standardization bodies could be W3C (Web Services, Binary Characterization Group, SVG, X-HTML). No resources allocated specifically to this
E-NEXT The general area of contribution is Computer Networking WP2 (Joint Research), WP4 (Distributed Work Environment), and WP6 (Dissemination); no specific manpower budgeted as E-Next is an NoE Medianet; Enthrone; MUSE; Daidalos ETSI (TTCN-3); IRTF (several); IETF (several); ITU-T (SG-10); ISO/IEC (several); IPv6 Forum (several); IFIP (WG 6) Ad hoc networking, Sensor networks; Macro, micro and seamless mobility; Advanced Mobile Data Services; Fast handoff, Context transfer, Multi-homing Large scale distributed architectures and management; Scaling basic mechanisms: congestion control, error control, etc.; Mobile routing; QoS routing, multimedia routing; Interdomain routing scaling (BGP); Distributed router architectures to gain scalability, extensibility and robust-ness properties; Voice and telephony over packet networks; Large-scale audio-visual content distribution and broadcast; P2P in large-scale systems;• Overlay networks; Convergence (fix and mobile) Distributed Denial of Service Attacks; Secure and robust infrastructure; Security in dynamic networks; Enabling applications: e-commerce, etc.; Privacy; Trade-offs between transmission and storage New protocols and mechanisms for emerging environments; Pervasive communication; Reconfigurable communication architectures; Localization of services and resources; Active and programmable networking Active and passive monitoring, Network tomography, Understanding packet dynamics; Modelling and analysis; Traffic engineering; Traffic characterization, Multi timescale Internet traffic engineering; End-to-end performance measurement; QoS provisioning, Load balancing; Modelling new applications, architectures; Applications to MPLS, IP, shared networks Network monitoring, filtering; Network Management, Policies; Integration of networks, from home to telecom networks; Resilience and survivability; Charging/Accounting; Service discovery; Management of overlay networks and P2P, Home networks E-NEXT is a Network of Excellence comprised of 41 European Universities and Research Centres under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Pro-gramme that targets a key area of Information Society Technologies, namely com-puter networking. E-NEXT aims to integrate a critical mass of expertise and to re-structure research practice such that Europe can take a lead in computer networking and act as a world force in this area. The main objectives of this NoE will be: the development of a virtual research centre to integrate the world-class research of the members and to stimulate the exchange of personnel, the education and training of person-nel inside and outside the network, the dissemination of research results and in general the spreading of excellence, and the stimulation of innovation by appropri-ate technology transfer into existing and new companies, both large and small. E-NEXT is targeted at line 3.1.8 in the First Call for proposals, Networked Audio-Visual Systems and Home Platforms. This line aims to 'support the innovation and development of technologies for end-to-end interoperable audio-visual net-works, services and applications'.
ENTHRONE Management of the resources across a wide range of networks and terminals in order to meet the needs of all users; including standardisation guarantees; integration of components and standards to facilitate harmonisation of 'tech-nologies' for the creation, protection, distribution and consumption of digital services; guaranteed end-to-end quality, implying interoperability, consistency and re-liability between different resources based on robust standardisation tools; fine Granular Scalability of content generation for seamless rendering across networks and terminals; such technique closely depending of widely recognised standards, a Business Model within which the various actors are able to collaborate and profit widely based on standardised XML meta data based exchanges. All these items have the purpose to improve the current existing European and international effort for standards establishment as widely adopted as possible. The Work Package 9: Standardisation Dissemination and Exploitation includes a dedi-cated task "9.3 : Regulatory & Standardisation" representing an amount of 44,5 m/M ATHENA & TIRAMISU ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC29 WG11 DVB IETF FS-VDSL ITU OMG ETSI IPMP DRM E2E QoS DVB IP NSIS Interim - Full Service-VDSL Com-mittee promote video services over IP networks VCEG/WP6Q/VQEG CORBA 3GPP Definition of the end-to-end QoS Signaling; Translation of Application-level QoS into network system -level QoS; Integration of MPEG-21/MPEG-7 international standards MetaData; Support scalability aspects concerning content generation and protection and adaptation to network and terminal characteristics; Service Level Specification Management for QoS guarantee; Enforcement of policy and priority strategies to the network segments; Development and implementation of innovative content representation formats; Hierarchical representation and implementation of different features; Generation and send, with the video and audio, additional data that enables descriptions of the service; Streaming technologies based on IP and DVB; Multiplexing and synchronisation of multiple descriptions associated with a content item (for more detail see questionnaire) Control over hybrid content production and management (Media + Metadata); the IMS communicates with authoring and analysis tools in order to synchronise media production and media descriptions for data manipulation and storage; Definition and implementation of the appropriate MPEG-21 international stan-dard descriptive model for each entity/module in the AV distribution chain; Definition and implementation of the appropriate protocols to enable interaction among the system modules, using XML based open standards. Incorporation of MPEG-2 and/or MPEG-4 IPMPX (Intellectual Property Man-agement and Protection eXtension) capabilities and functionality into ENTHRONE platform (players, servers and authoring tools); Improvement of existing and development of new MPEG IPMPX compatible tools for content protection such as: encryption tools, key management tools, authentication tools, etc for the chosen platforms by ENTRONE; Definition, development, validation and standardization of an interoperable MPEG-21 IPMP framework, to support end-to-end security, managed by some higher level layer like IMS. (for more detail see questionnaire) Design and implement a system level network interface for resource adaptive applications, together with the underlying management systems that support the interface by reacting, according to local and global policies and strategies as well as application/content characteristics. The goal is to provide the availability and use of resources in a variety of network domains: please see questionnaire. Definition of a MPEG-21 compliant terminal architecture including the interac-tions and processing of digital items necessary for the efficient management of the terminal QoS; Implementation of the MPEG-21 compliant terminal capable to deal with dy-namic modification of the requirements, interfacing by means of the MPEG-21 stan-dard APIs, the IMS and the terminal QoS user requirements; Validation of the architecture of the MPEG-21 terminal for the desired function-ality and/or will define necessary APIs for guaranteeing the efficient interface of the IMS with the MPEG-21 terminal for a global QoS (network and terminal) management; Development and implementation of specific support modules to enable the ex-change of information between IMS and lower level entities e.g. encoders, transcod-ers, routers, multiplexers, network managers, quality meters, decoders. Management of the content generation and protection, of the network configuration and exploitation, of the user terminal reception, using MPEG-21 features; Transmission mechanisms for MPEG-21/MPEG-7 metadata over a variety of physical media using appropriate protocols; Development and implementation of a standard representation of digital information, including the content itself, semantic descriptions, QoS information and to inte-grate them with the IMS to enable efficient, scalable, secure and reliable management and distribution of the content to the end-user. The main objective of the ENTHRONE project is to investigate and develop an inte-grated solution that is able to manage the functionality of various entities in the digital information distribution chain, from content/service generation to user terminals, using heterogeneous networks and based on the end-to-end QoS approach. The project will bring together a wide range of relevant and complementary concepts and technologies such as resources management, networks convergence, end user terminal intercon-nection, QoS mechanisms, to achieve the end-to-end delivery of content through het-erogeneous networks and terminals. The critical size of the ENTHRONE partnership is a luck for a good internal standardisation process able to ensure the best level of qual-ity for outputs contributions delivered to the existing standardisation bodies. By this way the community gains some stage of investments by owing pre-proved draft based on real existing consensus. By aggregating partners able to simulate a market actors relationship such project prepares the dissemination effort to be provided in the later stages.
EPERSPACE Our standardisation plan is not finalised yet; however, we have already identified somme area where we think we could contribute to standardisation; these areas covers mainly home networks (middleware), personalisation, meta-data We have one package addressing all issues concerning dissemination, standardisation, training and knowledge management; only 2 man/month are specifically dedicated to standardisation For the moment, we have only foreseen to participate together with EU project TEAHA and MEDIANET to a CENELEC Smart House meeting We are planning to contribute to standardisation bodies in a few months Integration of home personal devices into a device communities (communication between devices, home automation, home network permitting audiovisual applications, peer to peer experience, exchange of content, profile management…); contribution to standardisation foreseen: OSGI, UPnP,… Management of QoS end to end (layer 2 ATM, layer 3 IP, 802.11); contribution to standardisation foreseen: management of QoS for 802.11 Service and gateway development ( profile management, remote access to the home platform, development of value added house services,…); contribution to standardisation foreseen: OSGI Content adaptation and management (content indexing, adaptation to device and profile, mobile agents, avatar…); contribution to standardisation foreseen: MPEG7 Specification of a personalisation service architecture (secure access, single login, personalisation of services depending of devices, user context, preferences,...); contribution to standardisation foreseen: OSA,OMA, 3GPP Parlay, W3C
INSTINCT DVB (DVB-CM, DVB-TM, DVB-CBMS, DVB-H, DVB-MHP, DVB-GBS, DVB-IPI, DVB-MG, DVB-PVR), 3GPP, OMA, ITU-R, CENELEC, DigiTAG, BTG, CEPT, CITEL, ABERT, EBU-NMC, EBU-BMC, EICTA, IETF IP-DVB, IP-Datacast, ITU-D WP1: Dissemination and training; 21,5 person/months are devoted to a task on liaison to standardisation bodies ENTHRONE; DAIDALOS Deliverable D1.1 Detailed Dissemination and Standardisation plan is nearly ready for submission to the Commission D3.1: Service and application tools design tools D5.2: API and Middleware specifications D6.2: Very low power transmitter (DVB) (Public) D64.1: Front-end and Antenna External Specifications (Public) D6.3: Measurement receiver for DVB-H signals (Public)
MCDN Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): i) mCDN intends to contribute to the area of Internet Media Guides (IMG). The standardization of the IMG protocol is currently ongoing in the MMUSIC working group of IETF. The IMG is a framework that enables the transmission of rich meta-data for con-tent/service discovery purposes and can be applied to both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint environments. It allows the inclusion of already accepted standards for con-tent and service descriptions such as MPEG-7, SDP, XPath and others in a standard-ized format. It is therefore an enabler for further services based on the transmitted meta-data. The IMG protocol takes a broader perspective of content distribution by providing a flexible content/service discovery framework that is applicable to different types of environments. In particular, mCDN intends to develop an open source reference implementations of the Internet Media Guide Unidirectional Point-to-Multipoint Transport protocol (MUP-PET). ii) New extensions to the Real-time Protocol and accompanying Control Protocol (RTP/RTCP) are currently under discussion in the Audio/Video Transport (AVT) work-ing group of the IETF, to better support realtime streaming in dynamic environments such as wireless and roaming scenarios (as compared to environments where the fluc-tuation of the network parameters are rather slow and seldom). While AVT still meas-ures and interprets parameters at the RTP level, the mCDN project will open the con-trol loop to higher (network) layers including applications in order to support their po-tential adaptive capabilities in response to fluctuating network conditions. The potential for standardization in IETF/AVT will be investigated Contribution to standards bodies is subject of WP6 Task 6.2 with a budget of approximately 12 person/months for dissemination and standardization Not yet IETF Working groups MMUSIC & AVT Content discovery based on Internet Media Guides, Open Source Reference Implementa-tion, as part of Deliverables D3.2 and D3.4 Extension of RTP/RTCP for improved network state feedback in dynamic environments, as-part of Deliverables D4.2 and D4.3 Please note, that details of potential contributions to standardization will be clarified in Year 2, in Deliverable D6.4 (Month 18)
MEDIANET
META CAMERA Yes - in digital cinema production, digital post-production and metadata There are no specific standardisation work packages, since it is not expected to be a major part of the project at this stage, however I would anticipate that up to 2 man-months will be related to standardisation activities through the dissemination work-package; high-speed interfacing work is expected to draw on ongoing standardisation work The project draws on work already performed under the G-FORS and MetaVision pro-jects in FP-5, and will be associated with the WorldScreen project currently being final-ised under the 2nd IST call of FP6 AAF Consortium; Pro-MPEG/SMPTE AAF standardisation; MXF standardisation and metadata definition The project involves convergence of digital film and broadcast production workflows, and as such is expected to contribute to descriptive output which would be of value as input to standardisation and other industry bodies; direct contribution to standards bodies is not anticipated Storage will be addressed for production and post-production, but not as a primary project aim - it is understood that this is being addressed elsewhere, both commercially and through other IST projects (including WorldScreen and IP-RACINE) The project will be using the AAF and MXF formats A crucial issue will be the specification and implementation of a high-speed interface between the electronic camera and the storage device. This will be done in conjunction with emerging standards, and the project specification may form the basis of input to the relevant standardisation body, when identified
MHP-CONFIDENCE MHP-CONFIDENCE strengthens the DVB Multimedia Home Platform Standard (MHP) by strengthening its conformance testing regime; the goal of the project is to develop new conformance tests as an enabling technology for the successful deployment of MHP components in the market; MHP-CONFIDENCE will directly interface with DVB and contribute to the MHP Test Suite with the aim to aid DVB to release a Test Suite 1.0.3 based on the published MHP specification 1.0.3 WP6 "Interface to standardisation bodies & Maintenance of Test Suite" is planned with 38 person months. WP6 covers also the following activities: i) the project is actively participating in the relevant DVB groups (SB, TM, TAM, MEG); ii) packaging of validated tests for dissemination to DVB and support of the fol-lowing review process in DVB; iii) the maintenance requests regarding the MHP test suites have to be verified by checking against the MHP standard, and against several MHP implementa-tions and the results has to checked in all details Output from MHP-KDB, which is building up a knowledge database on MHP interop-erability issues, is considered and picked up if relevant for MHP Conformance Testing DVB; ETSI Major contributions to the MHP Test Suite By developing new MHP conformance tests, MHP-CONFIDENCE will improve quality of MHP decoders in the market and therefore enable a successful deployment of intelligent home architectures By developing new MHP conformance tests, MHP-CONFIDENCE will improve quality of MHP decoders in the market and therefore enable a successful deployment of convergent multimedia services
MHP-KDB The main intention of MHP-KDB is to solve practical problems and improve the inter-operability with the existing standard DVB-MHP; in order to contribute to further standardisation work, input will be derived for both sta-bilising the current version of the MHP standard and feeding input to new standard versions of MHP WP5 "Dissemination and exploitation" includes the communication with standardisation bodies; WP5.2 "Guidelines, recommendations, publications" is planned with 16,5 person/months and will also produce recommendations as input for standardisation work; the standardisation bodies will be approached by project partners being involved in the relevant DVB-groups; "pure" standardisation work within the project is estimated in the order of 3-5 person/months MHP-KDB is reporting its results to FP6/IST MHP-CONFIDENCE which is working on the enhancement of the MHP Test Suite; liaison is also made with the FP6/IST project INSTINCT which relies on MHP for its broadcast API With its recommendations, guidelines and best practice solutions offered to the different partners in the MHP value chain, MHP-KDB will improve interoperability and therefore foster intelligent home architectures With its recommendations, guidelines and best practice solutions offered to the different partners in the MHP value chain, MHP-KDB will improve interoperability and quality of MHP content and therefore enable foster convergence of multimedia content Functionality checks and guidance which relate to MHP interacting with the BC network, a cable modem, a telecom network or a home local network Functionality checks and guidance which relate to user intervention. See 2.4 See 2.4 Guidance on how to make the user aware when private data will be transmitted as a conse-quence of an intended feedback or reaction to an interactive offer from within MHP
OLGA Yes No No MPEG Video coding; SNHC Object representation for heterogeneous networks and terminals Standardisation of interfaces for on-line multi-user games
SEMANTIC HIFI
SIVSS
TEAHA CECED (white goods association) for household appliance interworking specifications; OSGI (Open Service Gateway Initiative) for OSGi based gateways; DVB-MHP (Digital Video Broadcast - Multimedia Home Platform) for DVB-MHP based systems; Cenelec for residential gateways standards; Information technology -Home Electronic System (HES) gateway - Part 1: A Residen-tial gateway model for HES (ISO - 14045 Part 1); Cenelec Interoperability; Home electronic system- Information technology - Interconnection of information technology equipment - Guidelines for product interoperability - Part 1: Introduc-tion ISO 18012-Part 1); Zigbee alliance for RF specifications; SmartHouse initiative - Code of Practice (architecture, inhouse networking); Konnex Association WP6 Standardization and liaisons: (16,25 man/months); WP6 - Objectives: Liaise with standardization bodies and promote Teaha middleware specification as an open specification Not yet Smart House initiative Code of practice (home net-works) (architecture and home networks media) To SmartHouse initiative: TEAHA taxonomy to foster interworking among clusters representing diverse interests of industrial vendors in Europe will be proposed to the CPE WG of Smart House II as code of practice result; to OSGi: proposal to recognize a list of abstract device «types» in the context of TEAHA taxonomy endorsed by European industry To OSGi: standarization of a common protocol approach to handle the taxonomy
TIRAMISU Yes, in DRM architecture and solutions Yes, 20 man/months with other dissemination and exploitation tasks Yes, we are coordinating our DRM approach with ENTHRONE, not yet at the level of standard contribution, but at the design approach level MPEG (MPEG-21); ISMA; DMP DRM architecture and solutions for multimedia content Digital Rights Management - architecture design and interoperable solution demonstration
UNI-VERSE Yes, we are continuing to develop an existing real-time protocol for 3D information and audio called Verse; we are most interested to make this into a standard No No None None Verse protocol Verse protocol As mentioned we are enthusiastic about the Copras project and look forward to work with you.
VISNET Scalable video coding contributing to MPEG-21 Part 13 (SVC); Media transcoding contributing to MPEG-21 part 7 (DIA); Digital rights management (rights expression language, rights data dictionary, intellectual property management and protection) MPEG-21; Multimedia transmission over wireless networks contributing to JPEG2000 part 11 (JPWL); Image indexing based on colour temperature information (MPEG-7); Face recognition descriptor based on 3D models (MPEG-7); Non-normative parts of MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 for better deployment of these standards, e.g. rate control and error concealment; Lossless audio coding (MPEG-4 ALS - Audio Lossless Coding) No specific WP in the JPA has explicit manpower allocation for standardisation activities; yet, VISNET includes a number of partners who have strong and active contributions to international standards and have therefore plans for active participation to standardisation activities; for instance, the following 2 VISNET partners have provisions for some man-effort to be spent on their standardisation activities: UPF: WP5.1.4 (2 man/months), WP5.1.5 (2 man/months); IPW: WP1.2 (3 man/months), WP2.1 (3 man/months), WP3.2 (3 man/months), WP 4.2.1 (3 man/months) Not at the monment MPEG (i.e. ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29/WG11) Scalable video coding; Audio Lossless Coding (ALS); Rights Expression Language (REL) and Rights Data Dictionary (RDD) reference software Face recognition descriptor based on 3D models (MPEG-7) Convergence of multimedia content is an issue in MPEG-21 in general and specifically in MPEG-21 DID, DII, DIA. Face recognition descriptor based on 3D models (MPEG-7) Technologies for multimedia security contributing to JPEG-2000 part 8 (JSEC); Reference software for MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language and Rights Data Dictionary; Core experiments for MPEG-21 Digital Item Processing; Scalable video coding architecture; Image indexing based on colour temperature information (MPEG-7); Bit rate control schema for video compression (AVC/H.264) Face recognition descriptor based on 3D models (MPEG-7) Technologies for multimedia transmission over wireless networks contributing to JPEG-2000 part 11 (JPWL); bit rate control schema for video compression (AVC/H.264) Face recognition descriptor based on 3D models (MPEG-7) Face recognition descriptor based on 3D models (MPEG-7) Audiovisual representation notably coding, indexing, retrieval, etc. in MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 such as: technologies for media transcoding contributing to MPEG-21 part 7 (DIA) and technologies for scalable video coding contributing to MPEG-21 part 13 (SVC) More information on ALS within the context of Visnet activities on lossless audio cod-ing could be found on: http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/mp4als
WCAM ISO/IEC 15444-3 MotionJPEG 2000 (on AMD3 compliance testing) ISO/IEC 15444-8 JPEG 2000 Security ISO/IEC 15444-11 Wireless JPEG 2000 MPEG-21 Scalable Video Coding WP7 is related to dissemination and participation to JPEG and MPEG standards (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 WG1 and WG11. IST project DANAE on MPEG Scalable Video Coding activity Convergence of MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-21 SVC and MotionJPEG 2000 in the context of video-surveillance application Content security issues related to MPEG-4 AVC and MotionJPEG 2000 Streaming of MotionJPEG 2000 WLAN in a very critical application in term of security (video-surveillance)

Networked business & government

Project acronym General issues Standardisation issues addressing specific areas Additional remarks
1.1: Will your project deliver technologies, specifications or other outputs that are intended to be European or global standards or otherwise may contribute to standardisation work and if so, could you list in which areas? 1.2 : Does your project have specific work packages addressing activities required to interface with standards bodies and if so, how many man/months are budgeted for this? 1.3: Is your project in the process of deploying or coordinating standardisation re-lated activity with other IST projects either in FP6 or other Framework Pro-grammes and if so, could you please list the other projects involved? 1.4: Is your project already in the process of deploying standardisation related activity in coordination with one of more standards bodies or industry consortia and if so, which activity does this concern and with organisations are involved? 2.1: Open source software for e-government 2.2: Geographic Information Systems 2.3: Personal identification 2.4: Knowledge ontologies 2.5: Web services 2.6: Virtual enterprises 2.7: Interoperability in eBusiness systems & applications 2.8: Business modelling 2.9: Other 3: Additional remarks
Standards body Activity
ATHENA
COSPA COSPA may indirectly contribute to standardisation of document formats for office automation and personal productivity No No No None Cost-benefit analysis of mass deployment of OpenOffice.org and Linux for desktop in Public Administrations throughout Europe; Assessment of the effort for transitioning to Open Source software and open data standards; Bridging tools enabling interoperability with legacy databases Possible use of the bridging tools of point 2.1 for legacy GIS's  Lowering barriers for interoperability between businesses and governments by using open source software and open document formats
CROSSWORK The project will develop a system facilitating the creation and operation of cross-organisational workflows using software agents and workflow formalisms. It will de-velop further representations and ontologies in the area of e-business standards and software agents, which can potentially serve as standards. Two main starting points are XRL as a workflow standard (TUE), which has been created after careful research of existing workflow standards, and FIPA, the organisation creating standards in the domain of intelligent software agents. While there are no explicit Person Months allocated to standard-related work pack-ages, the management of the project aims to use standards and interface with stan-dard bodies whereever possible, to make the outputs of CrossWork accessible by put-ting them in a global standard-compliant context, including interfaces to standards as appropriate. It is too early since the project start to answer this question, but we have already es-tablished links with the following EU funded relevant projects: MaBE (Multi Agent Busi-ness Environment): FV Growth, IMS-NoE (Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Network of Excellence), and TrustCom (F6 IST), FIPA We participate in FIPA activities, but we currently we are mainly using FIPA stan-dards rather than contributing to them. This will change by the end of the project. Approach to ontology mapping and translation, using existing ontological standards such as OWL. The system will be based on Web Service standards and is likely to produce a semantically enriched specification of a Web Services and Service contracts. The project is concerned with the creation and running of virtual enterprises, supporting their organisational processes. As such we will be using existing process specification standards, and specifically XRL as a starting point Semantically sound translation betwee