2007.8.28
					Akira Kato

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draft-007.Strawman Proposal - DRAFT
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A. Long term research (10-20 years)
  AsiaFI focuses primarily on the long term research with secondary focus
  on the middle term research

B. Open Research
  AsiaFI's research activity shall be open

  issue:
  B1. Research term. some organization require output sooner than
      several years (NTT Lab, ETRI).

C. CJK vs Asia
  We start with CJK first, then expand to Asia as soon as we will be
  ready so that we could move fast to catch up with North America and
  Europe

D. Education for Graduate Students
  We emphasize on the graduate student education since the Future
  Internet projects is the long term project with heavy emphasis on
  research.

<the numbers corresponding to Prof. Chon's memorandum dated on Aug 21>

1. Symbios : How we get benefit if collaborate together?

  We agreed this is important and that we can accomplish the goal.

  Issue:   1a. How we are going to accomplish the goal?

2. Loose federation vs tight collaboration

  Loose federation AND tight collaboration as each country has its
  own situation and formation of the federation might be differ. But
  anyway collaboration should be done in tight fashion so that we can
  encourage people work hard toward the goal.

3. Testbeds

  Each country may have different views to GENI.

  There are three areas:
  1) Design of a testbed
  2) Operation of the testbed
  3) Usage of the testbed

  We have to coordinate some areas on the testbed activities with
  other organizations including APAN.

  Issues:
  3a. Working relationship with regional organizations (e.g. APAN)
      and relevant organizations of other continents (e.g. GENI).
  3b. We need a good definition of "testbed"; backbone, wireless,
      sensor networks?, ...

4. Membership Structure

  Two categories of membership is being considered: individual and
  sponsoring organization.

  Issue:
  4a. Sponsoring organizations, e.g. national associations, testbed
      operators, and others, need to be elaborated.

5. Intercontinental Collaboration

  We agreed that AsiaFI is to be one of the three regional
  organizations, and to be complementary organizations to others. We
  should not prevent any activities in Asia-Pacific to collaborate
  directly with other two regional organizations, however. AsiaFI
  should help them to collaborate with them.

6. Finance

  We need to elaborate on finance. We didn't disagree but we didn't
  agree anything at this moment and need to revisit later.

  As a strawman proposal, we may suggest at least $50,000/year to
  be raised initially.

7. Centers of Excellence

  We agreed to have several "Center of Excellence" points in Asia
  region. Typical center may have 50+ fulltime researchers including
  Ph.D course students. University professors and graduate students
  are counted as 0.5 FTE in this context. Significant ratio of the
  researchers should be invited outside of the country.

  Issues:
  7a. We need major funding in each country. We need to get information
      of the possibility of such programs.
  7b. We need a good reference model, e.g. Xerox Parc.
  7c. If the position is temporally (like 2-3 years), we may need to
      care after the term is completed.
  7d. Are we ready to accept such researches in the environment including
      nursing the baby, raise their kids, commute, size of the apartment,
      ...

8. Research Focus
  (renamed from "Upstream vs downstream research vs application")

  While we will going to focus on future technologies in 10-15 years,
  we will also need to cover more shorter range of activities as well.

  Issues:
  8a. Shall we divide the research activities in vertical way so that
      we can evaluate the technologies from its motivations
      (applications) all the way down to the basic technologies.

9. Who is in charge of the network operation?
  (was "Technology vs Engineering")

  APAN should get involved to GENI and related activities.

  Tentatively APAN would be nice to coordinate interconnect of
  testbed.  We agreed to let somebody be in GENI workshop in
  Minneapolis, October.

  Issues:

  9a. What are the roles of APAN and other regional organizations in
      the context of Future Internet activities?  What roles APAN
       needs to perform in context of testbed operation?
   9b. Is APAN appropriate body on coordination of overlay networks as
       well so that researchers are able to concentrate on their
       activities?
   9c. Are researchers capable to implement their ideas at prototype
       level including debugging, initial part of the operation, measurement
       for evaluation, etc ?
   9d. We need to have activities on good public relations. We are
       going to have a session in every APAN meeting so that we may
       able to disclose what we are doing and we may able to encourage
       active researchers to get involved. This may not only be APAN
       but including IEEE/ACM conferences and domestic academic
       society events.

 10. Fair Share

 11. Initial Activities in 2008

   - Working group structures/candidates
     mobile/wireless, architecture, testbed, security, applications,...
     are the initial candidates.
   - Education mainly for Ph.D course students
     <see the attached documentation by Prof. Chon>
   - Workshop/Conference
     Annual conference may need to be held rotated among CJK so that
     we may able to invite researchers in other continents. We may also
     need to accomodate workshops on specific topics more frequently