[Fiware-opencall-bm] Questions regarding FiWare Open Call

[Koen Casier]

Dear,



We are considering to apply for the Fi-Ware open call on
Business Models and Business Elements (BM & BE) Definition and Simulation.

We try to comply as closely as possible to the call
and as such we still have several open questions.
You will find a list of our questions in the remainder of the mail,
as well as in the attached document which also contains a description
of our current view on the open call and a link of the questions to
their source
in the FiWare documentation available .


Considering EPIC - Maintain Business Models & Elements:

      * What is meant with “a straightforward integration with Revenue
        Share System GE”? What will this integration look like in practice?
      * Or is real integration not needed and are we only required to use
        the same “types and values”?
      * Where are the formal descriptions of these types and value to be
        found?
      * Considering the described link with Revenue Share System GE
            o How are the “service/call data records” defined?
            o Where are the “billing systems involved” to be found?
            o The asset explicitly states that there is no API for this,
              how can we integrate with a component that does not offer
              any APIs?
            o There is detailed information of an implementation
              available. Where can this implementation be found?

Considering EPIC - Maintain Services Applications Actors

      * What are the goods sold by FIWARE.Actors/services/applications?
      * Where to find a description of Actors/services/applications?

Considering EPIC - Business Model Simulation

      * Who could provide more information on the “cloud computing (IaaS,
        PaaS, SaaS), priority communication, etc” services for which
        business models are to be defined? Probably this is also
        implemented somewhere in FIWARE? What does it look like?

In the general scope of the project

      * Is there a visual representation available of the links between
        all EPICS within FI-WARE and definitely within the technical
        chapter on Applications/Services Ecosystem and Delivery Framework
        in FI-WARE
      * How do the EPICS of this open call link to other EPICS in this
        Technical Chapter? E.g. some EPICS sound to be familiar (e.g
        MarketPlace) but are not explicitly mentioned in the open call
epics..
      * Within FI-WARE, for which EPICS there is an implementation
        available? Where to find this implementation? What has already
        been implemented and what is ongoing?
      * If any APIs are not available at the moment, how to use them?
      * How is a reference architecture defined? If a reference
        architecture is to be delivered as a part of the project
        (addressed in this open call), what can it look like?
      * What is the impact of the FRAND license on the specifications and
        on our implementation?





best regards,
Koen Casier

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Koen Casier


Research Group Broadband Communication Networks (IBCN)
Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University/ IBBT
Gaston Crommenlaan 8 bus 201, B-9050 Gent, Belgium

tel: +32 9 33 14 984, fax: +32 9 33 14 899
e-mail: koen.casier at intec.ugent.be
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