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1. SEA2: Standards and Legislation Activities
Kick-off Meeting
Brussels, 21-22 December 2011
Georg Carle (TUM)
Network of
FP7-ICT-2011.1.6-288021 EINS Excellence in
Internet Science

2. WP Objectives
 Standards govern the Internet, help to
stimulate standards using EINS results
 Standards methodology, do we need other
ways to establish standards?
 Legislation sets rules for service providers
and users, help law makers to set good rules
for future networks
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

3. WP Tasks
 S2.1 Standardisation
 S2.2 Standardisation Methodology
 S2.3 Activities with governmental and
political organisations
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

4. S2.1 Standardisation
 Participation at IETF meetings
 Contribute results from JRAs
 Channel information on ongoing standardisation
activities, emerging working groups, initiate new
ones?
 Bring the multi-discipline approach of EINS
to otherwise purely technical standardisation
bodies.
 Partners: TUM, LSE
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

5. S2.2 Standardisation Methodology
 Not easy to successfully contribute to
standards
 How is it done today?
 Ways of improvement
 Better decision-making processes
 Interacts with JRA4
 Partners: TUM, LSE
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

6. S2.3 Activities with governmental and other political
organisations
 Collection, assessment and documentation
of relevant organisations
 Activities, meetings, existing contacts
 Action plan for interaction with these
organisations
 Partners: TUM, LSE
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

7. WP Action List for the 1st Year
 D12.1.1 Report on Standards and
Legislation Activities (M12)
 Attend first IETF meetings
 Establish interaction with JRA4
 Start collection of information on
goverhmental and political organisations
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

8. Interdependencies with other WPs
 Results of other WPs could be brought to
standardisation
 Development in standardisation or political
developments may have impact on other
WPs
 With JRA4: shared work on how to efficiently
organise standardisation
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

9. WP Impact
 Help to make EINS results reality, bring
them to real world
 Interface to decision making bodies
 Standards
 Law
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

10. Issues to be discussed and decided
 Coordination of activities with IETF
 Other standardisation bodies?
 Contributions to Task S2.3
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011