- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:22:30 +0100
- To: John Domingue <j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Hi John, John Domingue wrote: > ***Apologies for cross postings**** (no worries, hope it's ok to treat it as discussion fodder...) > [http://www.fis2008.org] > > We are pleased to announce the Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2008) > which will take place in Vienna, Austria, September 28-30. FIS 2008 > will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and > industry to exchange ideas related to the Future Internet - a new planet > scale network able to truly meet the societal and business demands of > the 21st Century. Could you tell us a bit more about it? Is there buy-in to the notion of a "Future Internet" from outside the European funding zone, or is this somehow the European Future Internet? To what extent do you expect specs defined over the good old Internet (eg. the current Web stack) to work just fine in this new Internet? The impression I get from http://www.future-internet.eu/ is that this is a central organising concept for the next phase of 'futuristic Internet' funding/research/etc in Europe, but it's unclear how literally to take the talk of a 'new network'. Re the "a new planet scale network able to truly meet the societal and business demands of the 21st Century." part, is there a suggestion that the Web as currently defined ( http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ and suchlike) is failing society in ways that can be improved by a better Internet layer? To what extent do you see those changes affecting the kinds of thing we care about in the SemWeb world? Should we expect discussion of a "Future Web" too? cheers, Dan -- http://danbri.org/
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