[Fiware-opencall-help] FI-WARE questions

[jose costa-requena]

Hello,

This is Jose Costa-Requena from AALTO Univeristy in Helsinki, I just 
talked on the phone with Mr. Jose Luis Peña Sedano concerning these items:
1) The topic we will be proposing is targeted to the topic "Middleware 
for efficient and QoS/Security-aware invocation of services and exchange 
of messages".
We would like to confirm whether our project proposal  is in the scope 
of the call.
The project consists of the concept of "Collaborative Firewalls" where 
we intend to develop new data structure and protocol that allows inbound 
and outbound Firewalls across Internet to exchange information about the 
traffic to decide whether it should be discarded or not. We intend to 
take commercial and/or open source FW and implement the proposed 
identity management and collaborative protocols for enabling this source 
based traffic filtering.
Thus, the question is whether this proposal is in the scope of the 
security topic or not.

In our proposal we plan to use either commercial or Open Source 
Firewalls (depending on question 2 below) so is it expected that the 
proposed project should use pre-defined platforms given by FI-WARE or do 
we select the required platforms as long as later on we offer the 
implementation of the proposed collaborative protocols as Open Source so 
they can be part of FI-WARE components?

2) Will the standard consortium building rules apply where the 
consortium should be formed by a minimum 3 partners from different 
countries? Or is it acceptable if our consortium is formed by 2 partners 
from the same country (e.g. we intend to build small consortium e.g. 
AALTO university + 1 SME manufacturing FW)?

Thanks,
Regards
jose