[Fiware-opencall-help] FI-WARE questions

[jose costa-requena]

Hello,

I sent the following request for which I have not received any 
clarification yet, could you pls provide some comments?
Thanks
Regards
Jose


On 6.2.2012 14:46, jose costa-requena wrote:
> 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
>