2008.1.24
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AsiaFI Final Proposal 
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1. Long term research (10-15 years)
  AsiaFI focuses primarily on the long term research(10-15 years) with
  secondary focus  on the middle term research(5-10 years). 

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

3. CJK vs Asia
 We start with CJK first, then expand to Asia  as soon as possible.

4.. 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 and much of the research would be carried out by these graduate
  students and young researchers.

5. Synergy and Symbiosis
   Synergy and symbiosis are important factors when international
   collaboration  in Asia is carried out.

6. Loose federation vs tight collaboration 
  We need to have loose federation and tight collaboration as each
  country has its own situation. But collaboration should be done in tight fashion 
  so that we can encourage people work hard toward the goal. 

7. Testbeds(Backbone)
 There are four areas on Testbed activity
 1) Requirement analysis
 2) Design of a testbed
 3) Operation of the testbed
 4) Usage of the testbed

 AsiaFI focuses on the user requirement, and usage of the testbed. 
 We have to coordinate some areas on the testbed activities with
 other organizations including APAN as well as organizations in North America
 and Europe.

 Working relationship with regional organizations such as APAN and relevant 
 organizations of other continents such as GENI and FIRE need to be
 defined properly.

 We expect the wireless and sensor network testbeds to be handled
 primarily by Mobile/Wireless WG.

8. Membership Structure
   There are two kinds of memberships at AsiaFI;
     - Individual Member
     - Sponsoring Organization
   The primary member is the individual member, but the sponsoring organizations 
   such as national associations, and testbed operators are also important members.

9. Intercontinental Collaboration
   AsiaFI is expected to be the primary regional organization in Asia. 
   AsiaFI plans to collaborate with other  regional organiations as well as national
   organizations in Asia.
   AsiaFI plans also to collaborate with organizations in other continents.  AsiaFI may
   facilitate national organizations to collaborate with organizations in Asia and other
   continents as needed.

10. Finance
    AsiaFI is expected to be a lean organization on finance, which may be carried
    out by contribution of sponsoring organizations and events.  We anticipate $30,000
    or more for the first year.

11. Centers of Excellence  
    We agreed the need to have several "Centers of Excellence" in Asia. 
    A typical center may have 50 or more fulltime researchers including
   professors and Ph.D course students. University professors and graduate
   students are counted as 0.5 FTE in this context. Significant ratio of the 
   researchers may be invited from other countries.  AsiaFI intends to develop
   network of excellence to assist realization of the centers of excellence among others.

12. Research Focus 
    We should focus on the vertical research(application to infrastructure)
    as well as horizontal research.

13. Fair Share
     We shall put effort to contribute fair share on research output along other continents.

14. Initial Activities
  - Working Group (candidates):
       mobile/wireless
       architecture/building blocks
       trust/security
       service
       applications 

  - Testbed Committee

  - Education Committee
    Primarily for Ph.D students(next generation researchers) with  course offering,
    joint thesis supervision, and visits.

  - Event Committee 
    Annual meeting
    Conference
    Workshop
    Tutorial  - Joint Project
   Joint projects between AsiaFI members, and between AsiaFI member and
   others.  We may start with sample experiments in the region, and  intercontinetally.

15. Regional Collaboration
     We need to define good collaboration scheme with the relevant
     organizations such as  APAN on the testbed design and operation as well as prototyping, 
     measurement, and  other technical and engineering effort.

16. Public Relation
     We need to have activities on good public relation including conferences organized by
     ACM, IEEE and others.  We may also co-locate some of AsiaFI  events with APAN
     and other organizations to promote public relation as well as collaboration.