Transcript open alliance to network the physical world

open alliance to network the physical
world
2 Nov. 2005
David E. Culler
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IETF
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Mission
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No confidential contributions.
IP not in RFCs, avoid proprietary possible, notes at http://www.ietf.org/ipr.html
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Open process. Anyone can participate, must come and do work
IP policy
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ISOC has $ members, IETF has individual participants
Participation
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IETF WGs in Areas, Area Directors form IESG, IAB provides oversight, IESG and IAB
are chartered by ISOC
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produce high quality, relevant technical and engineering documents that influence the
way people design, use, and manage the Internet in such a way as to make the Internet
work better. These documents include protocol standards, best current practices, and
informational documents of various kinds.
RFCs, internet drafts
Code is external. Part of “building consensus on running code”
Compliance is delegated to the market
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ISOC members
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OSDL
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IP developed by OSDL employees licensed as open source, Members can assign IP, IP
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Open source license
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Must be member, only paid vote.
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Range of paid corporate members, free non-voting individual, ~50 members
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Strong BOD of corp. members, create committees
User advisory Comm ---- Streering Comm -> Tech Comm + Marketing Comm
Projects proposed by members, approved by director
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To be the recognized center of gravity for Linux; the central body dedicated to accelerating
the use of Linux for enterprise computing through:
Enterprise-class testing and other technical support for the Linux development community.
Marshalling of Linux-industry resources to focus investment on areas of greatest need
thereby eliminating inhibitors to growth.
Practical guidance to our members - vendors and end users alike - on working effectively
with the Linux development community.
Code and APIs. Feed into distributions.
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By members
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OSGi
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Mission
– specify, create, advance, and promote an open service platform for the
delivery and management of multiple applications and services to all types of
networked devices in home, vehicle, mobile and other environments.
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Corporate Structure
– Non-profit, BOD, officers
– OSGi Comm: Requirements Comm + Marketing comm + Expert Groups
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Membership
– Contrib (10k), full (20k), ~40 members
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Participation
– Members
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IP policy
– Included in membership agreement, grant IP to members and affiliates
– Confidential material
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Output
– OSGi Service Platform: Create a specification, a reference implementation
and a test suite
– Companies produce and sell own implementations
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Funding
– members
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Apache
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Mission
– provides support for the Apache community of open-source software
projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative,
consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software
license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its
field. We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server,
but rather a community of developers and users.
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Corporate Structure
– The management of the Foundation is overseen by a board of directors, who
are elected by the ASF membership
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Membership
– By invitation, individuals, not companies. Large.
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Participation
– Members, Meritocracy
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IP policy
– Accept contributions under Apache license, ASF owns code
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– Collection of open source projects. Artifacts more than architecture
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Funding
– donations
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Zigbee
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Mission
– Association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective,
low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an
open global standard.
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Define network, security, and appln software layers
Providing interoperability and conformance testing specifications
Promoting the ZigBee brand globally to build market awareness
Managing the evolution of the technology
Corporate Structure
– Heavy non-profit
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Membership
– Corporate, $$$, 150 members.
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Participation
– Members only, late publication
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IP policy
– Members contribute IP, IP is made available to members. Complex.
– Members produce own, closed implementations
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Output
– Marketing, Specs
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– Member companies
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WINA, Infiniband, ATM, …
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XETF (Xternet Engineering and
Technology Forum)
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Non-confidential contributions, IP disclosure process. IP contribution vehicle. Companies
can develop own implementation.
Apache-like credit (why not MPL?) – BSD?
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Open. Role determined by contribution. Typical escalation process
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Individual participants, corporate, academic, and gov’t supporting members
Expect lots of academics and little start up.
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Lean non-profit with BOD, steering comm, collection of Areas with working groups. Park
under CNRI or some existing organization.
Volunteer (except support staff)
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Foster an open, innovative, and technically sound ecosystem around interconnecting the
physical world with modern networking and information technology through the creation of
technical documents, protocols, reference implementations and APIs.
RFC-like documents, reference implementations, forum for exchange and viz.
“Rough consensus AND running code”
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Member contributions, donations, gov’t support
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XETF areas (proposed)
• System support
– TinyOS working group, Linux working group
• Embedded protocols
– Mesh routing, DTN
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Internet Interfaces
Xsensor => Xology
Management
Instrumentation
Security
Privacy
Reliability
Hardware Interfaces
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