1. Report from the First Research Group Meeting on Appliance Aggregation Architecture (appagg) Milan Milenkovic and Dejan Milojicic GGF6, Chicago, October 2002 (attendance 30+ people)

2. What is Appliance Aggregation Arch.? Ad-hoc aggregation of wireless appliances Appliances in locale –personal: handheld, laptop, tablet, etc. –consumer: phone, camera, watches, etc. –environment: display, U/I, surrogate, etc. We do not focus on (even though we may support) –sensors, embedded (in general sense) –grids in general: distributed computing, data sharing –geographically distributed

3. Charter, Definition Complements other Grid RGs & WGs, address client side appliances Addresses appliances from perspective of –aggregation: discovery, identity, security, com –personal use: trust, HCI, apps, disconnection –environment: scalability, power, ambience Three perspectives tied in by –wireless, ad-hoc, and pervasive deployment

4. Draft Charter, Milestones Agreed upon the charter and establish the plan (October 2002, at GGF6) Survey of current practices (+12 months) Staged architecture (+12, 24, 36 months) Standards (+36 months) Working prototypes (+6-36 months)

5. Milestones, Current Practices (6-12 months) Terminology (chairs) –common terms related to appliances & Grid –relate p2p, Grids, appliances, pervasive & embedded computing Survey (Ian Taylor) –survey the field of appliances aggregation –compare grid & p2p related to aggregation –survey & compare a few of case studies Use cases (Dimitris Lioupis) Public relations (recruit other companies)