When: April 30th 2010, 14h
Where: INESC Porto, Auditorium
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 378, 4200-465 Porto.

Main topic: Impact of "dot-socialism" on the Internet end-to-end principle.

Dot-socialism as coined by K. Kelly (Wired Magazine) and when applied to the Internet relates to the trend where masses of individuals cooperate by means of social tools and collaboratige technology, e.g. Facebook, Googledocs. This is a trend where the Internet end-user is a provider of content, but above all, this trend is reverting the basic principles of Internet access.

The impact on end-to-end architectures, which started with the rise of "middle boxes" such as Network Address Translators and firewalls and which has been partially bypassed by the rise of Peer-to-Peer and technical workarounds such as the Simple Traversal of UDP over NAT (STUN), is now reverting to the older Internet paradigm of client/server where clients were dumb terminals just serving the purpose of accessing remote services and applications.

Topics of interest to be discussed in this meeting include but are not limited to:

• Impact of collaborative social tools on networking architectures design.
• Can collaborativism be safe in terms of traceability, non-repudiation, confidentiality?
• How can the access management cope with these new paradigms?
• How will the nomadism concept evolve?
• Which incentives (from a technical perspective) can benefit users and access e.g. from a security perspective?

Agenda:

10-12.30h: Working Group Meeting (Steering Committee and Invited Experts only)

Invited Experts:

• Prof. Legatheaux Martins (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
• Prof. Alexandre Santos (Universidade do Minho)
• Dr. Artur Arsénio (Innovation Head, Nokia Siemens Networks, Instituto Superior Técnico)
• Invited Expert (to be announced)

14:10-16:00: Teaser Topics Session (Open to API members)

14:10-14:30 The tussle around Network Neutrality, Paulo Mendes (INESC Porto)

14:30-15:00 How can the Internet contribute to the social well being of citizens and to  competitiveness of our European businesses?, Jorge Sá Silva (Universidade de Coimbra)

15:00-15:30 IP or Name addressing: remove, enhance, or keep IP? Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro)

15:30-16:00 Internet revolution - What for?, Jorge Carapinha (PT Inovação)

16:00 - 16:15: Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:30: Expert group outcome presentation & global API discussion (Open to API members)

16:15-16:45: Overview on EIFFEL, Dr. Dirk Trossen (Cambridge University)

16:45-17:00: Outcome of the experts meeting (Rute Sofia, API Steering Committee 2010)

17:00-17:30: Discussion and Closure