[iot-discussion] European Commission Report: Workshop on Security & Privacy in IoT

Dear Gordon,

That is indeed correct, RIPE NCC is a member of the AIOTI.

While originally set up by the European Commission it was decided to continue the AIOTI as an independent organisation, in 2016 it was established as a Belgian association. This transition is now in its final stages, with, as you may have noticed, a new website and full separation of the administrative tasks that until recently were supported by Commission staff.

Meanwhile work continued in a number of areas, mostly in the field of high level architecture and gap analysis for industrial applications. There is also a small task force which focusses on “identifiers”, who are currently busy processing the results of their survey, to which the members of the RIPE community were also invited to provide input.

As for future activities and priorities for AIOTI and its working groups, there will be a bigger strategy meeting later this week. Given our own workload, a week prior to the RIPE meeting, and the high level nature of these discussions, we decided not to participate directly in this meeting.

We will of course continue to follow the work of the AIOTI and the outcomes of this strategy meeting for areas of interest to the RIPE NCC or RIPE community.

As for your request to report back to the community, I will try and incorporate some of this in my already scheduled presentation in the Cooperation Working Group, which will mostly focus on the activities of ITU-T Study Group 20 and their recent meeting in Dubai.

Regards,

Marco Hogewoning
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External Relations - RIPE NCC

> On 30 Apr 2017, at 21:19, Gordon Lennox <gordon.lennox.13 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> As I think Marco informed everyone NCC signed up for AIOTI.
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> You can get more information on AIOTI here;
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> https://www.aioti.eu
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> I presume AIOTI got, or at least will be well-placed to get, funding from the Commission. But given the membership I would guess that going forward external funding from the Commission and other governments should not that important. More important is perceived political backing and whether they become the “voice of the IoT”.
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> I think though what AIOTI is doing is interesting and indeed important and so I am personally pleased that NCC is involved. 
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> But I also think it would be good if there was time in Budapest for NCC to explain what is now expected in this context and for the communty in turn to make it clear what messages they wish to be taken into AIOTI.
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> NCC have tended to be good at telling the community about things like this - outreach, liaisons, MoUs. Maybe though it is becoming even more important that the RIPE community steps up and plays their part in the necessary on-going dialogue. Where should this conversation take place though? The Cooperation WG? A new WG? Does this means the bof should consider an IOT WG?
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> Gordon
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