1. 1Presentation_ID © 1999, Cisco Systems, Inc. Persistent Presence BOF - TERENA - 2000 Robert (Bob) Aiken Manager of University Research Office of the CTO raiken@cisco.com

2. 2Presentation_ID © 1999, Cisco Systems, Inc. www.cisco.com BOF - Agenda 17:35-17:50 Bob Aiken - Cisco / USA Introduction / e - persistent presence (epp) 17:50-18:05 Klaas Wierenga -GigaPORT Persistent presence in the Gigaport Project 18:05-18:20 Henk Eertink - Telematics Ins Virtual and persistent presence apps 18:20-18:50 Klaus Wolf Cyland/ ULM COBROW Virtual presence / IETF IMPP 18:50-19:30 Discussion

3. 3Presentation_ID © 1999, Cisco Systems, Inc. www.cisco.com Persistent Presence Chronology first there was the big bang then the earth cooled then we had dinosaurs then we had oil then we had Mercedes Benz then we had ubiquitous computing

4. 4Presentation_ID © 1999, Cisco Systems, Inc. www.cisco.com What is Electronic Persistent Presence (EPP)? always on the net - NOT session based myself or proxies, agents, bots, avatars wireless and wireline, high + low BW secure, rich, fluid mobile and nomadic access integrated system of apps (pager, cell phone, telephony, video, audio, muds, VR, email, chat, instant msgs, BANs,...)

5. 5Presentation_ID © 1999, Cisco Systems, Inc. www.cisco.com Middleware Issues privacy and security (AAAA) naming / addressing accounting / costing connectivity mgmt ( async & sync) / media negotiation QOS / variable speed bandwidth locators, directories/DBs,rendezvous

6. 6Presentation_ID © 1999, Cisco Systems, Inc. www.cisco.com Middleware Issues ctd OS support (jini,java,corba) infrastructure management /control context and agent services / mgrs peering of nets/routing (BANs, PANS, DANs, LANs, WANs, GANs, QANs) * BAN = body area net, PAN = personal area net, DAN = desk area net, GAN = Galactic area network [ fromVint Cerf ], QAN = quantum area network [ from Aiken ;-) ]

7. 7Presentation_ID © 1999, Cisco Systems, Inc. www.cisco.com Follow up http//www.ietf.org/internet- drafts/draft-aiken-middleware- reqndef-02.txt http:/www.gigaport.nl/ http://www.cyland.com/

8. 8Presentation_ID © 1999, Cisco Systems, Inc. www.cisco.com