Networked Audiovisual Systems and Home Platforms

Concertation Meeting Invitation

Registration::____jsande@telvium.com ; egonzalez@telvium.com


Concertation Meeting Plenary Draft Agenda:

8:30 - 9:30. Internal meeting AVISTA - BIP - EC Officers (room AB/1A).


9:30. Concertation Plenary (room AB/1A).
· Adoption of the Agenda.
· General information from the European Commission (Unit D2).
· Election of Concertation process chairmanship and secretariat.
· The overall NAVSHP projects portfolio. Presentation by AVISTA (G. Stoll).
· The NAVSHP projects portfolio: a focus on In-Home Networks and Platforms. Presentation by BIP.
· Brief on the launch of New Media Council (David Wood).
· News from the Commission on NAVSHP. EC officers


11:00 Coffee-break


11:15 Proposed Concertation structure in the FP6 era (room AB/1A).
· Presentation of the draft concertation structure of NAVSHP and working procedures. AVISTA (J. Seseña).
· The goals of the Concertation mechanism for projects involved in the In-Home Networks and Platforms. BIP
· The Roadmap for the overall NAVSHP. The overall NAVSHP landscape.
· Presentation of CORPAS Project (B.Brusse).
· The EU-China workshop on in-home networks and platforms
· Website facilities
· Newsletter information
· Definition of "Coordination Groups"
· Election of chairmanships for the Coordination Groups

12:00. Coordination Groups parallel streams.
· Coordination Group 1. (room AB-405) Digital Rights Management. Convenor: Leonardo Chiriaglione. Projects: Enthrone, Tiramisu, Medianet, Teaha, Wcam, Danae, Visnet, ...
· Coordination Group 2. (room AB/1A) Quality of Service. Convenors: Dr. Hutchison, Dr. Denis Abraham. Projects: Enthrone, Danae, Instinct, E-Next, Ardor, Savant, Future Home, Soquet, ...
· Coordination Group 3. (room AB/2B) In-Home Networks and Platforms. Convenor: Roger Torrenti. Projects: Smarthouse, Tahi, Dhwg, Medianet, ePerspace, Teaha, Mhp-Kdb, ...

13:00 Lunch


14:00. Coordination Groups parallel streams (Cont.).

16:00 - 17:00. Concertation Plenary Summary.(room AB/1A)
· Summary of Coordination Groups discussions.
· Work-plan for further Concertation work
· Conferences, Exhibitions, Demonstrations
· Future meetings and venues.


Note. Day 2 (12th March), from 9:00 to 16:30 the New Media Council will hold a Preparatory meeting.

FIRST MEETING GOALS:
- Getting the projects mutually informed
- Identifying the areas covered by projects
- Identifying the areas apparently not covered by any projects and deemed to be important
- Identifying the first most obvious overlaps/divergences
- Agreeing on actions to be taken and reported about at the Plenary of the following concertation meeting.


DRAFT AGENDA:
1. Brief presentation of each project highlighting
a. areas covered
b. objectives
c. deliverables
2. Identification of
a. overlaps
b. divergence/convergence
c. not covered areas
3. Agreement on actions to be taken and reported at the next meeting Convenor: Leonardo Chiariglione.
Participant projects: Enthrone, Tiramisu, Medianet, Teaha, Wcam, Danae, Visnet, ...
Asistant: J. M. Sande.

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Agenda Coordination Group Q o S in a Convergent Environment, including User Terminals
room AB/1A
Time:(12 AM - 4 PM)

Introduction:
Historical of the QoS in the field of digital TV in the framework R&D EU program (Denis ABRAHAM) Historical of the QoS in the field of IP in the framework R &D EU program (David Hutchison)

Objetives:

Identification of the projects concerned by the QoS, and segmentation of the QoS into sub fields:

- End to End QoS
- Perceived QoS
- Network QoS (IP, Broadcast, Radiocommunication)
- Terminal facilities (Resolution, display, ..)
- DRM (working Group 1)
- Registration process
- Metadata, MPEG 21
- …

Few words from project coordinators, presenting themselves, their project, its QoS approach, QoS needs, expected results, planification of the work,

- Enthrone (Negru, Kourtis) 5 - 10 min
- Danae (Cotarmanac'h, Devillers) 5 - 10 min
- Instinct (Lauterjung) 5 - 10 min
- E-Next (Hutchison) 5 - 10 min
- Lunch Break?
- Ardor (Van Schijndel) 5 - 10 min
- Savant/Cismundus (TBC) (Stoll) 5 - 10 min
- Future Home (Pentikäinen) 10 - 15 min
- Soquet (Kemp, O'Farell, lauterjung, Bretillon) 20 - 30 min

Edition of the list of participant and contributors to the QoS coordination group (for future meeting)

Planning of the future meeting agenda

Identification of synergies between projects (exchanges of point if views, agreement concerning common schemes, coordinated actions to support technical inputs to standardisation groups, deliverables availability and exchange, results availability, *)

AoB

Convenor: Denis Abraham, Prof. Dr. Hutchison
Participant projects: Enthrone, Danae, Instinct, E-Next, Ardor, Savant, Future Home, Soquet, ...
Assistants: C. Buton (TDF), G. Stoll (IRT)

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Agenda of the Coordination Group In Home Networks and Platforms (as of Feb. 12, 2004)
room AB/2B
Time:(12 AM - 4 PM)

2:00 pm Welcome address
Thierry Devars (European Commission)


2:10 pm Invited contributions
The Smart House initiative
Pierre Heinrichs (CENELEC)
The TAHI reference architecture
Martyn Gilbert (Amino / TAHI)
DHWG perspectives
Speaker TBA (DHWG)


2:50 pm Introduction of FP6 projects
“Identified issues and planned solutions”
Medianet
Speaker TBA (Medianet)
ePerspace
Speaker TBA (ePerspace)
TEAHA
Speaker TBA (TEAHA)


3:30 pm Working together…
The Euro-China Workshop of April 2004, Beijing (objectives & organisation)
The D2 Project Portfolio Analysis (objectives & methodology)
Next Concertation meetings (objectives & agendas)


3:55 pm Wrap-up Session
Thierry Devars (European Commission) & Roger Torrenti (Homega Research / BIP)


4:00 pm End of the meeting
Organised within the frame of the BIP IST project - Contact: info@IST-BIP.org


Convenors: Thierry Devars (European Commission) & Roger Torrenti (Homega Research / BIP)
Participant Project: Smarthouse, Tahi, Dhwg, Medianet, ePerspace, Teaha, Mhp-Kdb, ...


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