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 between different workflow representation standards and partner-specific ontology models is one of the key aims of CrossWork. The R&D approach there will benefit from the practical expertise of our industrial partners, who specialise in EAI applications and technologies. XRL is based on sound scientific principles and is built as a superset of a large number of business and workflow specification standards. CrossWork will use XRL and enhance it with agent-specific and organisational knowledge such as goals, capabilities, etc. Agent interactions and message semantics would underline our solution to dynamic forma-tion and evolution of virtual enterprise and workflows. FIPA (www.fipa.org) is the interna-tional organisation involved with these aspects, and we are participating in its activities, in-tending to contribute results from CrossWork back into FIPA standardisation efforts. Please note that this is only a draft preliminary response. Final response will be sent shortly.
DBE
EMAYOR eMayor will take into account and contribute to eGovernment and technical standardization organizations and initiatives, including: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS); The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute); e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF); IDA Architecture Guidelines; Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications (SAGA); E-Gov Enterprise Architecture Guidance (EAG); Le Cadre Commun d' Intéroperabilité (Common Framework of Inter-working); Reach Agency; Interoperability Framework for the Common wealth Government; International Council for Information Technology in Governmental Ad-ministration (ICA). eMayor partners are involved in some of the above mentioned bodies and they will continue bridging the results of the project with the standardisation efforts. (For a more detailed description see questionnaire) Some alignment activities are allowed in the context of the project. however, most of the work with standardization groups will be dealt with through the normal working lines of the partners of eMayor. There are three distinct expertise groups within the consortium identified as R&D which includes all academic institutions with complementary expertise on e-government, security, Technology providers which all commercial companies providing the necessary technologies in the project (smart cards, PKI providers, e-government platforms and business) and Users which in the eMayor case are the Municipalities. Not yet Strong collaboration with other eGovernment, initiatives (e.g. e-GIF, German SAGA & OSCI standardisation initiative, CEN e-Invoice Fokus Group), programmes (e.g. EU IDA), organizations (e.g. W3C, OASIS) and projects (e.g. MIReG, FP6 related security projects) will be pursued. (More details in questionnaire) The eMayor platform will host services that will be have wired and wireless access interfaces and it will comprise reliable and interoperable software modules. The de-sign of the overall platform will also facilitate the addition and management of new Web Services and their "plug-ins" existing security modules and services. To that end, enhancement of existing open source software solutions will be sought and co-herence to standards or recommendations undergoing standardization effort. See 2.1 Digital signatures based on the W3C XML Signature Recommendation (XML-DSIG); W3C XML Encryption allows the selective encryption of arbitrary portions of XML documents; W3C XKMS (XML Key Management Protocol) is a building block for secure web services and a means of using web services to simplify a number of PKI (public key infrastructure) protocols. OASIS SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an initiative that defines a standard way to securely exchange authentication and authorization information for Web Services. OASIS XACML (XML Access Control Markup Language) is a technology com-plementary to SAML that allows access control policies to be expressed in XML; OASIS WSS (WS Security) adds encryption, digital signatures and authorization token support to SOAP messages for web services. (More details in questionnaire) W3C XForms is a specification of Web forms that can be used with a wide variety of platforms including desktop computers, hand helds, information appliances, and even paper supporting richer user interfaces, decoupled data, logic and presentation, support for structured form of data and andvanced forms logic. The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) de-fines a notation for specifying business process behaviour based on Web Ser-vices. Together with two further complimentary specifications WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction it presents efforts to standardise business process workflow and execution to increase transaction reliability and synchronisation. J2ME is a highly optimized Java runtime environment targeting a wide range of consumer products, including pagers, cellular phones, screen phones, digital set-top boxes and car navigation systems. FOKUS also actively participates in the specification of the standardisation guidelines for the implementation of eGovernment in Germany - SAGA (Standards and Architec-ture for e-Government Applications). Siegen has also contributed 3 projects editors for ISO/IEC standards of security techniques (ISO 10116, ISO 15946-1, ISO 13888-1). Further standardization ac-tivities are performed in W3C XML Signature and W3C XML Encryption. (More details in questionnaire) There is a need for some contacts on high level with European Standardization or-ganisations to make sure that the eMayor platform can be introduced as an input in the area of e-government architectures and egovernment security
eUSER Indirectly No No, maybe with eInclusion@EU since this project is co-ordinated by a colleague at em-pirica and we may find joint interests in this area No None eUser deals with support for the design and delivery of user-centred online public services in eGovernment, eHealth and eLearning As much as this is part of the above services As much as the above services are delivered through the www, which is the case almost everytime
FLOSSPOLS Report on attitudes towards and awareness of open standards within public ad-ministrations in the EU No No No None Report on attitudes towards and awareness of open standards within public administrations in the EU
GUIDE GUIDE will create a European conceptual framework for identity management (IDM) for eGovernment; we will develop IDM-based solutions in the A2A (Administration to Administration), A2B (Admin. to Business) and A2C(Admin. to Citizens) aera; this solutions cover aspects like secure data transmission and user authentification. It is the vision of the pro-ject that this solutions will be integrated to a framework that allows Europe to become the global leader of eGovernment services Yes, there is a task called "Interaction with standardisation bodies and stakeholder groups"; 12,5 person/months are budgeted for this in total There will be a cluster meeting, where GUIDE can exchange information with other IST projects; this meeting is scheduled for 15th June; it's not defined which other projects will be present eCH (Switzerland) SAGA.DE (BSI, Germany) OSCI Liberty Alliance OASIS Till now we just ckeck what the organisa-tions mentioned did so far; there was only little interaction so far Interoperability between administrations (A2A, Administration to Administration) is a key issue Modelling of governmental processes or processes in the A2A, A2B (Administration to Busi-ness) and A2C (Administration to Citizens) is a key issue Other key issues are legal, social and ethical aspects of eGovernment as GUIDE is an inter-gated project It is rather difficult to answer some of the questions above because the project started just five months ago. Maybe an update after 12 months would make sense.
HOPS Not directly; the results of HOPS are not intended to be European or global standards, although the solution adopted by the HOPS Platform might be valuable in the creation of new standards concerning the interaction of speech, natural language and semantic web technologies, the semiautomatic grammar generation or the development of ontologies for online public services There is no specific work package addressing activities required to interface with stan-dard bodies. Each technological expert maintains its own liaisons with standards bod-ies in their expertise field. HOPS has participated in some best-practices exchange (the most relevant of them has been the collaboration with the european project EU-LAT, that promotes liaisons between european and latin american bodies); the Municipality of Barcelona also participates in the OntoGov project, aiming to create an ontology for eGoverment, but there is not a formal collaboration between the two FP6 projects. Not at the Consortium level. Some partners of the HOPS Consortium might be doing it individually. Ontologies for a number of online public services Application-bus based architecture that that assembles different components to generate applications based on the dynamic combination of the components Analysis of the delivery of -online- public service in the participating public authorities Interaction between VoXML and Semantic Web technologies
INTELCITIES
INTEROP
NO-REST We will not deliver specific technologies but new insights which will improve priority setting, shaping and impact assessment regarding standards for networked organisations ETSI is subcontractor of the project and there are further interfaces with SDOS No ETSI (Y. Chauvel) Survey among ETSI members; platform for dissemination of results Identification of priorities Role of standards for business models NO-REST aims to structure the landscape of the various standardisation activities in the various bodies, preferences for standards for networked organisations, dynamics and impacts of standards.
ONTOGOV OntoGov will develop a model for change management of e-government services; there is no explicit target to propose it as standard, though As part of WP 1 E-Gov service lifecycle ontology, task 1.1 state-of-the-art analysis, we review existing standards in e-government modelling languages and ontologies, web service applications in e-government and semantic web services approaches; approximately 15 person/months for these tasks No No None Our project will produce an e-gov service modelling environment that will assist the configuration and re-configuration of e-government services which are implemented utilising Web Services Our project will result in eGov service lifecycle model that will be based on OWL and OWL-S See 2.1
QUALEG
SAFIR
SATINE 1. Open Travel Alliance (OTA): OTA is an industry standard for the travel domain and the consortium includes majority of the key players in the industry covering airlines, hotels, car rental, rail, and tour companies and Global Distribution Systems. OTA has produced XML schemas of the message specifications to be exchanged between the trading partners in the travel domain. SATINE will be one of the first efforts to develop OTA based Web services; furthermore SATINE will propose OTA-based ontologies to semantically mark up travel Web services. With these efforts we expect to be able to contribute to OTA; 2. One of the aims of the SATINE project is to enrich Web service registries with semantics. In this respect, we have already started collaborating with ebXML Registry Semantic Content Management Subcommittee (see also questionnaire) There is a general work package (WP2) for dissemination and exploitation activities; interfacing with standards bodies would be part of this work package; there is no specific allocation of man/months for interfacing with standards bodies within this WP, but we would expect this to be something between 3-5 man/month Not yet ebXML Registry Semantic Content Management Sub-committee The co-Chair OASIS ebXML Registry Semantic Content SC requested further information on the work realized by METU within the SATINE project entitled "Enriching ebXML Registries with OWL"; Asuman Dogac has become a member of ebXML Registry Semantic SC; OASIS ebXML Registry Technical Committee established a link to the SATINE project; METU-SRDC and ebXML Regis-try Semantic Content SC will collaborate to specify the best possible way of storing OWL ontologies into the registry by perhaps proposing some modifications to the registry (see also questionnaire) As mentioned in 1.1, SATINE will propose OTA-based ontologies to semantically mark up travel Web services. In this way, in SATINE it will be possible to address the interoperability of all sorts of Web services at the semantic level through ontology mapping As mentioned in 1.1, SATINE develop OTA based Web services for the travel domain. Fur-thermore SATINE project will provide a component to wrap existing information resources to make them appear as semantically well described Web Services. SATINE will provide an easy to use tool for Small and Middle Enterprises to easily create Web Services from their existing enterprise applications. SATINE will contribute to the virtual enterprises in the travel domain through semantically enriched Web services. Through SATINE project interoperability among very many heterogeneous systems such as flight reservation and hotel booking systems of individual companies will be facilitated. Fur-thermore, it will become possible to integrate the back end systems of the travel companies The SATINE project will demonstrate the feasibility of new business models in the travel domain (see questionnaire)
SPIDER-WIN The project will deliver results related to supply chains, which might be used to influ-ence the development of standards (but not within the project itself); contact has been established with other IST projects (especially, ATHENA and INTEROP) which will receive those results for potential use in their standardization tasks No No No None Results will show the data necessary to exchange along supply chains, especially involving SME in the production sector.
TERREGOV Yes, in WEB-SERVICES and ONTOLOGIES. Workflow manager 16 mths, Community of practices 19mths. Not yet, but it is planed to cooperate with other IST projects like INTELCITIES. No None
USE-ME.GOV The project (start January 2004) intends to use existing standards for the development of a platform for mobile government. Although the State-of-the-Art situation has been carefully examined and potential solutions explored, it stays unclear for the time being to what extend identified solutions will be used. However, the need for intensive re-search has been identified in the areas of contextualisation and semantic discovery. So far, we have not yet considered this hypothesis, even though we don't rule out to contact standardization bodies if we feel this is required. No specific work packages or tasks are dedicated to interactions with standards bodies, however these kinds of ac-tions are included within the platform research and design work package, for which 53,5 man-months are allocated. Not so far No None The project identified potential standardisation initiatives as possible inputs (such as e-GIF, e-GMS, SAGA, as well as potential XML interoperability standards, such as (the proposed only) GovXML), however, we do not intend project outcomes that could be viewed as input to ongoing standardization activities. Geographic information plays an important role in the project. We target OGC standards such as GML, SVG and Web Mapping (WMS, WFS). We have not yet looked into this topic, even though it has some relevance. One project part-ner is responsible for secure user identification and authorization. Ontologies will be explored in the process of semantic discovery research. Any identified shortcomings of current standards (RDF/XML based OWL and OWL-S) will be addressed. The already conducted reviews reveal that they are very likely to appear [WP5 SotA]. In that sense, contribution to standards is likely to appear. The outcomes of the project that will pre-sent the aforementioned research are due to be completed by the end of year. So far, we have identified Web services as one of the most likely technologies to be applied, even though at this moment we cannot anticipate any kind of design decision to be made at a later stage. Standards are related to the commonly known frameworks such as WSMF and WSDF. There are no issues within this particular area to be touched in the course of the project. Despite the obvious that service deployment is based on business models (see below) that integrates several actors, we do not consider e-Business interoperability standards (ebXML, Rosetta etc.) in this project Business modelling for public mobile services is one of the research topics of USE-ME.GOV and has a particular work package allocated to it. Our State-of-the-Art review has identified potential standards and technologies in several areas. With regard to the key issues related to platform design and distributed computing, there are alternatives still under evaluation, such as CORBA. One area that is of highest priority to the project is interaction with mobile operators frame-works. Due the strategic objectives of the project, interfacing with the mobile operator is a key issue. In this area, we target the Parlay/OSA framework. However, it might not meet the project expectations, therefore some additional effort is being considered. We find the COPRAS project very interesting and would appreciate the announcement of project related public information.
VE-FORUM We do not have direct standard related issues in the project VE-Forum is the Portal and Collaboration Platform for the Networked Businesses and Governments Strategic Objective, allowing easy dissemination to the projects and community in the field and active collaboration and exchange. Furthermore, VE-Forum is a long term activity going beyond the typical three years of project. From this perspective, a closer link to COPRAS or your usage of www.VE-Forum.org for information exchange might be a good opportunity to cross-fertilize and bring the issue of standardisation to a broader community. We just had discussions with the recent DIFFUSE project, for which all web-services finished with project end, even though the community would have appreciated continuation. We would be open and happy to discuss the further possibilities in this direction.

eSafety of road & air transport

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: Public transport safety 2.2: Real time traffic & travelinformation 2.3: Air traffic security & control 2.4: Accident causation data 2.5: Short range communications 2.6: Road maps 2.7: Vehicle tracking & identification 2.8: Human-machine interaction 2.9: Other 3: Additional remarks
Standards body Activity
AIDE
AIRNET The project addresses the safety of ground movements in the airports, therefore there is a link with future standards being developed by EUROCONTROL. No specific WP has been identified for standardisation but EUROCONTROL partici-pates to the steering committee of the project. The project utilises wireless technologies for the communication between vehicles and ground control centre, this are is of interest to follow up activities or standardisations from developed in other projects. No None The integrity functions developed in the frame of AIRNET are of interest in critical traffic & information systems (in which quality of service is essential). The operational concept developed in the frame of AIRNET project is an output which may be of interest for the safety & efficiency of ground movements in airports. The experimentation of WIFI communication links in an airport movement area may be of interest to other projects. The traffic analysis depending on the vehicle category to avoid congestions in the airport parking areas is of generic interest to fleet management systems Airport vehicle driver HMI has to de designed according to operational requirements
EASIS
eSCOPE
Euramp EURAMP addresses ramp metering measures at motorways. A produced "Handbook of Ramp Metering" for best use of this control measure may have an impact on possible future standards for ramp metering. No. No. No. None Ramp metering technology for motorways
GST Open systems; Security; Service payment No; Liaison is in the management activities AIDE & PREVENT OSGi Collaboration agreement
HIGHWAY Interoperable geography/spatial data handling and positioning systems: ISO TC 211, OpenGIS Consortium (GML Working Group); OpenGIS-OpenLS (Location Services Working Group); OMA (OMA Location Working Group); GDF XML-based spatial visualisation languages: ISO/IEC (Moving Picture Expert Group MPEG-4); W3C (SVG), W3D (X3D, VRML) 3G mobile telecommunication technologies: OMA (Presence and Availability WG, Push to Talk Over Cellular WG, Mobile Web Service WG); 3GPP, 3GPP2; IETF (IMPP, SIMPLE and Geographic Location/Privacy Working Groups); GTP (Global Telematics Protocol). Despite the fact that no person/months have been put to interface the standardisation bodies, HIGHWAY is meant to contribute to the above mentioned standards through the participation to standardisation activities of the HIGHWAY contractors. HIGHWAY will be compatible with GDF, the Geographic Data Files, developed in a European project namely EDRM (European Digital Road Map) and successively used by the ActMap project (5th FP IST). Moreover, the outcomes of ActMap and Compose (5th FP IST) will be the basis for the design of HIGHWAY intelligent maps. Concerning the 6th FP IST projects, HIGHWAY Consortium has linkages with GST (de-signed to create on-line services based on open standards), AIDE (designed to identify the optimal in-car user interface for drivers) and IM@GINE (aimed to provide the users with mobile, personalised, location based information on services). No specific work is intended to be allocated in standardisation bodies so far. However, we feel that a coordinated standardisation activity will be welcome for HIGHWAY and the other projects and HIGHWAY Consortium will contribute to this type of initiative. ISO TC 204/W3G CEN TC 278 OpenGIS AMI-C OMA MAGIC Forum ERTICO ETSI ITU 3GPP GSMAssociation IPv6 Task Force C2C Telemark Teleatlas Teleatlas Teleatlas Teleatlas Teleatlas, NetXcalibur, TeliaSonora Teleatlas Teleatlas, CRF Wind Wind Wind, TeliaSonora Wind, TeliaSonora Wind Car-to-car communication, Motorola Finre The specifications of HIGHWAY Toolset, and in particular, of the Crawler tool will be based on the OpenGIS/OpenLS GML. Crawler tool, in fact, will collect multimedia real-time informa-tion on traffic (road congestions, availability of park slots, etc.), and maps and then transform it on GML based information. GML will be also used as a basis for the definition of HIGH-WAY data model. HIGHWAY Toolset will support the management of interactive maps through GML (and GDF) together with their visualisation based on XML-based geo-spatial visualisation languages such as SVG, X3D and MPEG. Specifications of HIGHWAY Toolset will be based on Presence and Availability specification of OMA Working Group.
HUMANIST
IM@GINE IT
ISMAEL The to be developed system based on magnetic field sensor will be used to detect the ground moving/parking situation of aircrafts. These airfield applications like Taxi man-agement may provide new options to the design and execution of airfield operations. Since this aim shall be achieved in a generic manner to target all European airports there is certainly the potential to contribute to standards within this area, to recognise magnetic sensors as an alternative or addition to existing sensors (radar and multilat-eration) Within work package 6 "Exploitation and Dissemination" there is one specific task that deals with the issue of "Contribution to Standardisation" and approximately 2-3 man/months are budgeted for this task. None None None The development process for the intended ground moving detecting system based on magnetic field sensor can provide outputs for standardisation, as well as the integration of this new device for airport surveillance into appropriate applications. There are existing international standards (e.g. ICAO) for AGMCS (Advanced Ground Movement Control System). Depending on which potential applications of ISMAEL are se-lected for development, some amendment may be required to these standards. ISMAEL may also have interfaces with existing European and other international projects to reduce the incidence of runway incursions. As part of the project we will be establishing safety requirements based on consideration of the accidents which may arise as a result of the introduction of ISMAEL (if any) and the pro-tection provided by ISMAEL against existing accident possibilities. The process used to es-tablish quantified safety requirements includes consideration of Accident Causation Data.
PREVENT
SAFE-AIRPORT Acoustic Tracking System Requirements for ATZ (Aerodrome) Control Applications; Acoustic Track Data Format for ATZ Control Applications; Acoustic Monitoring System Requirements for the ATZ Acoustic Levels Prediction; Acoustic Monitoring System Database management for the ATZ Acoustic Levels Prediction (see also questionnaire) The WP involved is the Dissemination Management and the budget is equal to 6 man/months No ENAV, Eurocontrol ENAC Submission & analysis support for Acoustic Tracking System Requirements for ATZ (Aerodrome) Control Applications & Acoustic Track Data Format for ATZ Control Applications; Submission & analysis support for Acoustic Monitoring System Requirements for the ATZ Acoustic Levels Prediction & Acoustic Monitoring System Database management for the ATZ Acoustic Levels Prediction The development objective of SAFEAIRPORT is to accomplish a prototype of an Acoustic System for the Improvement of Co-operative Air Traffic Management at ATZ level, integrable with ATZ control procedures and in conformity with standards and procedures recommended in the Annex 14 ICAO and with the requirements of the document CAP 168. System compatibility has been evaluated referring to Anex 14 ICAO, vol 1, 3rd edition, amendment #4 that provides the institution of a Safety Management System, SMS, starting from 24.11.2005 Innovative acoustic system capable to discover and track aeroplanes up to at least six nautical miles distance in air and on ground Innovative acoustic system capable to predict collision risk situation in air and on ground at the internal side of the ATZ (Aerodrome Traffic Zone) Innovative acoustic system capable to verify collision risk causes in terms of vehicle paths in air and on ground at the internal side of the ATZ Innovative accoustic system based on two Passive Phased Array Micophone Antennas capable to discover and track aeroplanes up to at least six nautical miles distance in air and on ground. The system is completely integrable with airports air traffic management procedures and it is an effective air control system for ATZ, autonomous for smaller airports, and itegrated with standard control systems for greater airports. The software of the antenna computer includes ATR (Automatic Target Recognition) algorhym based on acoustic spectral analysis. C2 & GUI software (OUT 02): the software will be completely or partially portable on other tracking acoustical systems even with different HW configurations: Command & Control (C2) management software (CSCI-2) developed in C-language and conform to FAA-STD-026 standards; User graphics Interface software (CSCI-GUI) based on Unix operative system to get track data visualisation on two monitors. Acquired tracks are shown on the first monitor, while the second monitor is used to perfor system queries starting from a table representation of track data. The second monitor is used also to signal collision risk situations and whether environmental noise, measured during search and tracking activities, exceeded noise limits The SAFEAIRPORT project invloves the development of an innovative acoustic system based on two Passive Phased Array Microphone antennas capable to discover and track aeroplanes up to at least six nautical miles distance in air and on ground. The system is completely integrable with airports air traffic management procedures and it is an effective air control system for ATZ (Aerodrome Traffic Zone), autonomous for smaller airports and integrated with standards control systems for greater airports. The system consists of two acoustic sensors, to be used in open environments, and a control unit linked to the sensor with fibre optics connection, with a control console, managed by an operator to be installed inside the airport structure. Data survey portability to radar platform and datavisualisation and exchange are compatible with "Eurocontrol Standard Document for ATS Data Exchange Presentation (ADEXP) [DPS.ETI.ST09-std-01-01]". The main advantages of SAFE-AIRPORT system with respect to radar systems will be the lower cost, the electromagnetic and acoustic pollution free (see further questionnaire)
SAFETEL Proposition of EMC standards in automotive design: - EM environment definition on vehicles - EMC testing methods WP 5 includes activity for EMC Std's definition to be submitted to Standardization Agencies; effort: 6 man/months for standards related activities This is an objective, possibilities will be evaluated. Relevant projects have to be identified. To be decided soon Electromagnetism; Electromagnetic Compatibility SAFETEL recognizes the importance of properly co-ordinating its activities with Stan-dardization Organizations. Several research results will be prone to become standards, if accepted. Most participants are members of relevant Standardization Organizations. During the development of SAFETEL there will be 2 contractual events for discussing objectives and results with the expert and users communities: a Workshop (to be held in July 2004) and a Seminar (to be held tentatively in Feb 2006)
SPARC

eHealth

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: Privacy & data security 2.2: System architecture & interoperability 2.3: Area specific concepts, tools & systems 2.4: Data & information storage & mining systems & technologies 2.5: Security, safety management 2.6: Knowledge management systems 2.7: Representation of data & imaging systems 2.8: Medical device communication 2.9: Other 3: Additional remarks
Standards body Activity
ALLADIN Classification of diseases (ICD); Classification of functions (ICF) No No No None Unsupervised neural networks; Markov Chains Knowledge extraction from clinical descriptions collected from speech; building relationships between this knowledge and quantitative force torque measurements
AMICA Yes: medical data encoding, storage, retrieval, integration, security, evidence based medicine and medicinal products (drugs) Four out of 10 AMICA work packages address activities based on standards: creating patient-objects, user interfaces, DSS, and evidence. Two hundred and thirty-six man-month are allocated to these WPs, but only a minor part (~3 mm) are allocated to the activities mentioned. See "additional remarks". No No None Public Key Infrastructure, X.509 Certificates; SSL/TLS protocols; Web Services Security Specification (WS-Security, WS-Security 2004). Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI); Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF); Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I); pecifications; W3C SOAP v. 1.2 Recommendation; dbMotion, CDR, Profiler, GUI,ETL; Dot net (ASP.NET, C#.NET, VB.NET), XML/XSL, Web Services, SQL Server , Business object com, com+ Causal probabilistic networks on HUGIN interfaces Bringing evidence to the point of care will entail developing: Meta data representations and communication protocols. These will be related to OAI stan-dards and protocols (OAI = Open Archives Initiative); Concept identification and evidence retrieval algorithms. These will relate to UMLS con-cepts and standards (UMLS = Unified Medical Language System). The generic character of AMICA and the inclusion of decision support systems require that all AMICA components are based on standardized biomedical information.
ARTEMIS ARTEMIS expects to contribute to the following standards: The semantics to annotate Web services will be based on the existing standards such as HL7 and CEN ENV 13606 and will be specified in OWL. We expect this work to contribute to these standards. "Integrating Healthcare Enter-prise (IHE) is an implementation framework to provide interoperability, not a standard. We expect to be able to contribute to this initiative. Very recently, IHE is involved in extending clinical document sharing across enterprises. Principles already well visible in a draft are: exchange of documents in a variety of formats, without any kind of format translation; communication protocol based on Web services, ebXML, HTTP; distinction of document repositories and document registries. ARTEMIS has a very good chance of affecting the IHE work. (for more detail see questionnaire) There is a general work package (WP2) for dissemination and exploitation activities. Interfacing with standards bodies would be part of this work package. There is no specific allocation of man/months for interfacing with standards bodies within this WP, but we would expect this to be something between 1-5 m/m. Not yet ebXML Registry Semantic Content Man-agement Subcommittee (METU is a member of this committee and have committed to contribute to this standard) Devising standard mechanisms to store OWL ontologies to ebXML registries Part of the ARTEMIS architecture will be a Patient Identification Process (or protocol) that allows to issue a distributed query for health records of a patient, even if only partial informa-tion on the patient is available and there is no unique Patient Identifier. The process is based on de-identified control numbers (i. e. does not allow a receiver to reconstruct the patient's identity unless the receiver actually owns records of the patient in question) and compen-sates for spelling errors etc. Related Web service enhancement standards like WS-Security, WS-Privacy, WS- Policy standards will be used for this purpose. Key topic of the ARTMIS project is to achieve semantically enriched Web service based in-teroperability between systems that manage health record data in different local representa-tion (i. e., formats). In addition, ARTEMIS defines a technology that allows health care insti-tutions to offer certain services (such as electronic delivery of health record information, but also patient pre-admission etc.) over wide area networks using a scalable P2P and Web Services based technology. We believe that the results of the ARTEMIS protocol might pro-vide basis for a standard in this field, to be developed for example by CEN/TC 251/WG IV.Also, as discussed in 1.1, there is a very good chance that Artemis will contribute to IHE. Tools for creating Web Services from existing Medical applications Tools for semantically annotating Web services Tools for storing medical ontologies specified in OWL into Registries Tools for Publishing Web Services together their semantics to the Registries Tools for Semantic Advertising/Discovery Mechanisms for P2P Semantic Routing Tools for semantic query formulation to the P2P network Tool for Web Service Composition in P2P Network Please see 2.3 Please see 2.3 Please see 2.2
AUBADE No No No No None Personal and health data security and privacy Users security 3D facial animation
BIOPATTERN
CLINICIP
COCOON
DICOEMS P2P networks GRID computing Security middleware Multichannel delivery No, it has no specific work package No it is not in that kind of process https Data integrity DB encryption WLAN security issues Grid certificates integration Web services Web semantic and ontology Medical protocols and ontologies Data fusion techniques based on Bayesian algorithms Robustness of connection Patterns analysis
DOC@HAND
INFOBIOMED As INFOBIOMED is a Network of Excellence, work will evolve progressively and it is difficult to estimate at first glance whether any standards will come out. On the other hand, because of the extended scope of our network (the emerging area of biomedical informatics), a wide range of standards may be used and interfacing may be needed, but a proper answer would require a careful analysis and unfortunately we cannot afford that. INFOBIOMED has just started and simply cannot give an answer to most of the issues without the risk of oversimplifying. We also have different profiles in our partnership representing specific expertise areas, but as you can understand, I cannot commit a significant effort from several partners to an activity that is not in our own work plan. The project is complex enough to add yet another element. Nevertheless INFOBIOMED may supply COPRAS with some additional information concerning standards implications in INFOBIOMED in time. Standardisation is of course an important issue for us and if COPRAS is to act as "facilitator" of the relationship of projects with the standards world, we very much welcome your offer and would like to keep in touch with you so that, as relevant issues arise, we can work together for the benefit of all.
INTREPID Virtual reality Sensors data management No, it has no specific work package No it is not in that kind of process https Data integrity DB encryption WLAN security issues Biological sensors and physical data management Multi-level data fusion techniques based on Kalman filtering / Bayesian algorithms Physical security of patient VR exposure module with no position tracking
MYHEART
NOESIS
PALLIANET
PIPS
Semantic Mining

Technology enhanced learning

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: User interfaces & accessibility 2.2: Learning content management systems and interoperability 2.3: Open architecture & systems 2.4: Learning design 2.5: Taxonomies, vocabularies & ontologies 2.6: Multimedia access to digital content 2.7: Digitisation and preservation of cultural heritage 2.8: Digital libraries 2.9: Other 3: Additional remarks
Standards body Activity
AGAMEMNON The project will possibly rely on industrial or on "de-facto" standards in the field of mo-bile phones applications and networks. If no specific standards will be found, the project may opt for creating some "ad hoc" standard. No No Agamemnon is planning to exploit commercial 3G phones, so User interfaces are a primary issue for the project, due to reduced screen-sizes. Most suitable technology for mobile applications will be chosen, possibly relying on some standard development platform (ie. i300) Learning is an important issue since visitors will use Agamemnon application on their mobile phones to have enriched information on the archaeological sites they are visiting It is important to rely on an open standard so that the application will be able to run on all (or several) mobile devices See 2.2 This is a key issue since the system should provide the best information for different classes of visitors, in an usually time-constraint situation Agamemnon should provide multimedia content on reduced size devices, so this is a key issue for the project Agamemnon is planning to re-use the images taken by visitors during their visits in order to help preservation of cultural heritage. Digitisation is not foreseen Minor issue: if available, they could be made available in the system, anyway this is not one of the goals Image analysis - the system will recognise image taken by embedded cameras on mobile phones
BRICKS Metadata Cultural Heritage fruition Digital Libraries Digital Rights Managements We have no specific WPs addressing activities to interface standard bodies. Despite this we are interfacing standard bodies inside our collaboration with other project into the CH cluster, namely with Minerva Plus Project and DELOS project. In addition to the previous projects we are starting general collaborations also with PRESTO Space, EPOCH, Intelcities These collaborations are not specifically dedicated to standards, but maybe standards definition could be one common interest point
CALIMERA
CONNECT
DELOS
E-LEGI We expect to make contributions in the areas of grid services and in the area of eLearning Specifications. It is early in the project to predict exactly which of the many areas will need our particular attention, but in the eLearning field we might predict that learner modelling and group activity modelling (i..e IMS-LD) might soon become of par-ticular interest to us. Furthermore in the GRID field we will provide contributions in the service oriented architecture for the GRID and in their relation with Web Services tech-nologies (OASIS and W3C standards). In particular we'll focus on GRID as an enabling technology to create Virtual Organizations for eLearning and on the introduction of se-mantic aspects for creating the Semantic GRID for e-Learning. In the project general Implementation plan a standardisation activity has been identi-fied with a budget of 60.000€ and an estimated effort of 10 men/months. Moreover, we have a workpackage tracking standards and specifications (37.5 person/months in first 18 months) and we expect that as the project develops we will devote parts of this time to interfacing with specification/standards bodies. No it isn't. We actually have just started to discuss with the UNFOLD (an IST-FP6 CA project) Coordinator for defining collaboration patterns. No IMS CP /SCORM will be relevant, but since our project is more concerned with social con-structivist models of collaborative learning than with training, this issue is of secondary impor-tance. Due to our interest in service oriented architecture for GRID it will be relevant to look at the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) and, in particular, at the specifications related to the Web Service Resource Framework. Furthermore, because their tightly correlation, the WS related standards and specifications (WS-Security, WS-Addressing, WS-coreography,…) will be of particular interest in the frame of E-LeGI project, as well. Learning Design is central to our project and we expect that this is an area where we may well contribute to the evolution of the IMS specification. We have already made contact with the UNFOLD project. Ontologies to represent the concept space of a learning domain are likely to be an area to which we will contribute. Quality of service issues with Multimedia content and with multimedia communication are central issues, as are multimedia communication technologies. Access to digital libraries raises issues of trust and authentication that are not yet well solved. Moreover, DL in a service oriented vision should be a valuable source of contents. To this purpose we got in contact with the BRICKS IP project funded in the Cultural Heritage IST priority.
EPOCH
ICLASS ICLASS will utilize and in doing so intend to enhance and extend the existing stan-dards in the domains of eLearning systems for education, metadata, and knowledge spaces. WP2 : Requirements Work Package where the incorporation of the standards will be clarified (probably 20 MMs will be used to examine the standards out of a total of 178 MMs allocated to WP2) WP7 : Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardization. (probably 20 MMs will be used to disseminate to standards out of a total of 86 MMs allocated to WP7) Some liasons have been established with the UNFOLD project. European School Net (EUN) EUN is a Partner in ICLASS project. They are taking part in WP2 ICLASS Project will develop a technical framework where educational or related services will be delivered with a strong emphasis on pedagogy and personalization. These services will require Web accessibility and web browsers with media playback properties. Browser plug-ins will be developed to support these properties and to streamline the access to con-tent.W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and IMS Accessability Guidelines will be an-ticipated. As a part of Rich Media Distribution SubProject, content server and database modules will be developed. As a part of Content Packaging and Structuring SubProject, an object repository will be developed. The supported content standards are planned to be IMS content packaging standards and ADL SCORM 1.3 (+ Simple Sequencing). (for further detail see also questionnaire) iClass framework (realized in WP3 with 155 MMs) will have an open architecture based on Model Driven, Service Oriented Architecure. At the system level, interoperability refers to the scalability, modularity and interoperability of the underlying services of the project. Existing techniques for the integration of services from different organisations, as required by the pro-ject's architecture, points to the use of XML web services standards, most notably WSDL and SOAP. OMG Model Driven Architecture standards will be followed in order to achieve plat-form independence, flexibility and ease of adaptation to specific customer requests. Pertaining to processes and relations, IMS Simple Sequencing can be used, but this method involves static rules. Experience from the ICLASS authoring environments can result in a standardized approach for representing dynamic sequencing models. Learning activities may be captured in standard form by using IMS Learning Design, as well. IMS LD is created out of EML (Educational Modelling Language), which is a semantic information model and binding, describing the content and process within a "unit of learning" from a pedagogical perspective in order to support reuse and interoperability. (For further detail see questionnaire) Using the iClass framework, teachers will be empowered by ICT tools that will allow them share resources and pedagogical best practices. It is necessary to capture pedagogical best practice in a form that is computer readable and interpretable. Through this mechanism iClass can produce personalized offerings to learners that are based on sound pedagogical theories. A shared vocabulary or vocabulary mappings necessary for this purpose will be adopted or developed within the ICLASS project. A shared vocabulary relates to the peda-gogical strategies (potentially implemented through IMS Learning Design) stored in repositories, that will be available for reuse with the aid of such conceptual models for cataloguing and searching. (For further detail see questionnaire) The functional interoperability issues are separated from those of data interoperability, the latter being the focus of the learning level. Among system level standards MPEG-4 for media coding/transport and MPEG 7 for multimedia metadata will be exploited. MPEG 21 will also be investigated for sharing of ubiquitous resources across a wide range of network and devices used by different communities and for issuing digital rights to users to act on learning object in collaborative environment. As a part of Content Aggregation and Preferences Tools SubProject, a Content Aggre-gation tool and a Video Editing and Overlay Tool will be developed. These tools will en-able teachers and other content developers to fabricate richer course material by allowing them to collate external material to the iClass generated personalised material. The Tool will enable teachers to select, clip and add video segments to lessons and assignments espe-cially from the external resources like museum, libraries, broadcasters etc. iClass content repositories will work in a distributed fashion. Numerous repositories, estab-lished at various content providers will interoperate to present the iClass users with a large aggregated set of content. These distributed assets will be accessed by the LO generator module realized as a part of the Dynamic Creation of Learning Objects SubProject. To establish interoperability among the repositories, standards such as IMS Digital Reposito-ries or MIT OKI OSIDs will be used. ICLASS is an Integrated Project which is launched with the ambitious goal of designing and implementing the next generation K12 educational framework in Europe. To achieve this goal, the results of the project must create an impact in the education sec-tor and be widely adopted. Therefore consortium partners include major industrial play-ers in Information Technologies such as Siemens Business Services, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. The consortium is well aware of the fact to achieve wide adop-tion adherence to standards is essential. Therefore we are very glad to have this chance to cooperate with the COPRAS project.
ITEACH/TECHNE
KALEIDOSCOPE
LE ACTIVE MATH
MINERVA PLUS
PRESTO SPACE
PROLEARN
TELCERT
TNT
UNFOLD No Yes. One of the results of all our project activities is to in to IMS on the effectiveness of IMS Learning Design, and unmet needs to be addressed. We are a two year project, with Yes, we are a coordination action, so this is an important activity for us. We are in the initial stage at present, but we have been in contact with all the FP6 TEL projets. It re-mains to be see what degree of practical interest they will show when we start inital activities (scheduled for late May) IMS Coordination of implementation of Learning Design Development of tooling for IMS Learning Design IMS Learning Design and related IMS specifications A number of members of UNFOLD have been involved in the definition of the reference ar-chitecture for the development of Learning Design tooling Our principal focus is on IMS Learning Design IMS Meta Data is an important part of Learning Design Ontologies of educational content, and repositories of learning resources. Taxonomies of pedagogies Development of IMS Learning Design players IMS Learning Design Units of Learning using cultural heritage as a learning resource We will be examining the use of repositories to store and classify Units of Learning UNFOLD would very much like to collaborate with COPRAS. Perhaps we should or-ganise a meeting in May or June? I can come to Brussels, or you could come to Barce-lona. Please keep an eye on our website, www.tecn.upf.es/unfold. The present Web is a place holder, but a new version will go live from mid May
Rigo Wenning, Bert Bos
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