The consultation process is finished

The Service Oriented Infrastructure NESSI Working Group (SOI-NWG) is defining the NESSI Strategic Research Agenda on new generation of ICT infrastructures. In this context, Business Grids are envisioned as the adaptive service-oriented utility infrastructure for business applications, which will become the general ICT backbone in future service oriented economies.

Version 2.0 of the SRA, released in November 2007, was made subject to a broad community review process which resulted in several extensions of the identified requirements and challenges. The main goal of version 3 of this SRA is to provide a detailed roadmap analysis for the identified research challenges, including recommendations for researchers, industry and policy makers about the relevance and timeline of the identified research challenges.

This section describes the open process of consultation to collect inputs from individual experts to the first draft (v2.5 [DOC] [PDF]) of NESSI-Grid SRA v3.0.

The aims of the consultation are:

• To provide an open and public instrument to collect comments and change proposals to the SRA.
• To evaluate the expected impact on the European Economy and the adoption timeline of the business scenarios.
• To obtain qualitative values for the proposed business indicators in order to have a rough snapshot of the current use of Grid technologies in business environments.
• To evaluate the perceived complexity, relevance and urgency to meet the Business Scenarios requirements of the research challenges.

The NESSI-Grid project is a Specific Support Action (SSA) launched at FP6 to support activities of the SOI NWG, with a special focus on providing the necessary support to structure and develop the NESSI-Grid SRA document, as contribution to the NESSI SRA in the specific area of ITC infrastructures and Grids. The benefits of contributing to the European Roadmap for Business Grids are:

• You can take part in the European-wide dialogue to define the Strategic Research Agenda for Business Grids
• You can influence the NESSI Strategic Research Agenda
• You can identify research challenges and establish contacts for the definition of new projects
• Your contribution will be acknowledged and published at European level

Contribution to SRA v3.0 is open to any individual with relevant experience in the business grid area, i.e., it is not restricted to NESSI members. In fact its promotion to any valuable player is one of the aims of the community involvement activity. All stakeholders in this field are invited to participate in order get a precise understanding about envisioned scenarios, state-of-the-art, challenges, business impact and actual roadmaps and recommendations for realizing the vision.

Deadline Extended until July 22, 2008

Experts from Industry, Research and Academia can provide feedback and contribute to the draft (v2.5 [DOC] [PDF]) of the third version of NESSI SRA using the following models:

• Contribution Form to submit comments and/or change proposals to the draft of the third version of the NESSI-Grid SRA (v2.5). Contributions are accepted for all sections: Business Scenarios, State of the Art, Research Challenges…. The form is available in word format. Please send the contribution form to the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator by July 22, 2008.
• Questionnaire to provide feedback on the impact and timeline of the business scenarios, to obtain values for the business indicators, and to evaluate perceived complexity, relevance and timeline of research challenges defined in the draft of the third version of NESSI-Grid SRA (v2.5). Although you can download the PDF file with the questionnaire, it must be complete using a web survey tool (The Password is ).

Accepted contributions imply that the corresponding contributor gets cited in an acknowledge section.

PHASE A: Design and Development of the Open Process

• March 1-May 15, 2008: Design and development of the contribution models for community involvement in the edition of SRA v3.0.
• May 15, 2008: Release of SRA v2.5. ([DOC] [PDF])
• June 5, 2008: Presentation of SRA v2.5 and Community Involvement Process at Open Grid Forum 23 (Barcelona).

PHASE B: Implementation of the Open Process

• June 9-July 22, 2008: Call for participation in the edition of SRA v2.5.
• July 25, 2008: Publication of contributions at SOI NWG site.

PHASE C: Analysis of Contributions

• August 1-September 19, 2008: Evaluation of the response of the community and incorporation of the contributions into the SRA v2.7.
• September 22, 2008: Presentation at NESSI Office in Brussels of the community involvement process and contribution management process.
• October 1-October 22, 2008: Consultation loop closing and publication of last draft for comments
• November 28, 2008: Release of SRA v3.0.

Please send any question on the process and the contribution models, and the contribution form to the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator by July 22, 2008.