[Fiware-wpa] FW: deliverables for GE-s running as a service

[Farkas, Lorant (NSN - HU/Budapest)]

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From: Farkas, Lorant (NSN - HU/Budapest) 
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 2:08 PM
To: fiware-wpl at lists.fi-ware.eu; fiware-wpl at lists.fi-ware.eu
Cc: Seidl, Robert (NSN - DE/Munich)
Subject: deliverables for GE-s running as a service


Dear All,

Recently there have been discussions around the need for providing binaries constituting background in case of FI-WARE. Several partners raised concerns about that. The issue is burning, because in the current situation unless the partner contributes the binary of the background by the 23rd of July, 40% of the PM-s are lost.
Let me share NSN's view on this.

1. According to the FI-WARE contract special clause 41 (article 7.3) "other beneficiaries" (meaning FI-PPP partners excluding FI-WARE ones) rights and obligations are limited to foreground and do not extend to background. Translated: they should not have access to background. To comply to this clause with the tool called "fi-ware restricted"
1.1 either there would be no reason for exposing it to all FI-PPP consortium, but just FI-WARE and the commission
1.2 or there would be no reason for asking partners to upload binaries related to background

2. According to Annex 2 of the FI-WARE contract beneficiaries may define the background needed for the purposes of the project in a written agreement and, where appropriate, may agree to exclude specific background. All requests for access rights shall be made in writing. The granting of access rights may be made conditional on the acceptance of specific conditions aimed at ensuring that these rights will be used only for the intended purpose and
that appropriate confidentiality obligations are in place.
So when you expose background through "forge fi-ware restricted", even restricted to the FI-WARE partners, you take the possibility away from partners to impose such conditions. This would breach the contract.

3. According to Annex 2 of the FI-WARE contract access rights to background shall be granted to the other beneficiaries, if it is needed to enable those beneficiaries to carry out their own work under the project provided that the beneficiary concerned is entitled to grant them.
Example: from our side for the NSN IDM solution there is no such need, because it is available as a service.

4. On the other hand beneficiaries shall provide all detailed data requested by the Commission for the purposes of the proper administration of this project. Our interpretation is that there might be a request from the Commission to take a look at binaries of background. The technical means for that would be to establish sharing space only for the Commission's representatives, not the entire FI-WARE/FI-PPP consortium.

As a result, NSN rightfully believes there is no reason for any partner offering a GE as a service to provide binaries in "fi-ware restricted". Therefore also the content of the contributions to D8.x would be different for partners providing their assets as a service or as SW (e.g. unit testing plan, installation guide, etc.).


Thanks & Br,


Lóránt Farkas
Senior Research Engineer

H-1092 Budapest, Hungary
Köztelek u.6.
Tel: +36 20 977 7797
Mob: +36 20 936 9002

lorant.farkas at nsn.com <mailto:akos.fabian at nsn.com> 
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