1st OpenNet Workshop

Service Quality and IP Network Business: Filling the Gap

27-29 March, Diegem, Belgium

Organized by:

Project OpenNet

Open Interconnect for the Internet Community

IST FP6 SSA 035185

Hosted by:

Cisco Systems

Pegasus Park, De Kleetlaan, 6A

B-1831 - Diegem - Belgium

(Very close to the Brussels National Airport)

Objectives:

As the need for a new business model for the Internet grows, the pace of investigation into this topic is increasing. The main objective of this workshop is to discuss the need for a new business layer to fill the gap between the business needs and IP technology in the support of advanced services with quality requirements. This layer is intended to manage all  the business aspects (policies, pricing, SLA, service discovery, etc.) in order to enable on-demand secured and assured experience to the application,  from end-to-end across multiple operators and domains (or across multiple jurisdictions within a single provider). Beneath this new business layer, providers will be free to exercise whatever IP business model they choose, including the current Internet model, but they could also adopt whatever network-layer standards make sense to them and to their equipment vendors.

Questions to be answered:

The presentations and discussion in the workshop will address the  following questions (not limited to):

. What are the user needs? - Where is the endpoint for QoS?

. What are the business needs concerning service quality? - Business models, granularity, dynamicity,.

. What are the demands on technology to deliver the future business needs?

. What should the regulators do?

. What are the available solutions? - When can they be deployed and used?

. What are the research challenges? - To what extent are we able to master the Internet?

. What is the roadmap?

Workshop structure / paper submission:

The OpenNet workshop will last for three days. The first and last days  will be dedicated to the research perspective. European IST project teams and researchers from organizations worldwide are invited to submit research papers addressing the above issues. Submitted papers should have less than 12 pages, one column, single spaced and use Times Roman 12 font. Paper should include title, authors name and affiliation, contacts, abstract and  a few keywords in the first page. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop organization and accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings.

The second day of the OpenNet Workshop will be devoted to invited presentations from reputed experts representing telecommunication operators (incumbents, challengers, mobile, cable, and content providers), standardization and regulation bodies, user communities and the manufacturers. The first day will end with a panel discussion addressing  the above questions. A Belgium evening buffet (offered by Cisco) will take  place in the evening of the second day.

Workshop committee:

Martin Potts, Martel (chair)

Theo De Jongh, Cisco (local organizer)

Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France

Bertrand Duvivier, Cisco

Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Donal Morris, RedZinc, Ireland

Monique Morrow, Cisco

Paulo Simões, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Alan Taylor, Juniper Networks

Jean-Marc Uze, Juniper Networks

Registration and important dates:

Extended submission deadline: February 5, 2007

Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2007

Camera ready papers: March 9, 2007

Registration deadline: March 9, 2007

Workshop: March 27-29, 2007

Registration is free of charge but mandatory due to the limited number of places available.

For more information please visit the OpenNet site at

http://workshop.ist-opennet.eu

or contact the workshop secretariat at

workshop@ist-opennet.eu