INFINITY

The European Commission recently launched the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP).

The main goal is to advance a shared vision for harmonised European-scale technology platforms and their implementation, as well as the integration and harmonisation of the relevant policy, legal, political and regulatory frameworks.

INFINITY (INfrastructures for the Future Internet commuNITY) is a Support Action focussed on capacity building and infrastructure support. The goal is to leverage existing investments to support advanced experiments demonstrating the versatility of the FI-PPP Core Platform across a multiplicity of heterogeneous environments and use cases.

Through collaboration with organisations across Europe, we will capture and communicate information about available infrastructures and any interoperability requirements and issues. We will document any usage-related operational constraints and seek to identify and foster federation opportunities that could facilitate large scale experimentation and testing, taking into account social, economic and technological issues.

A dynamic innovative repository based on a set of community-driven Web tools will be realized to promote the evolving vision of available infrastructures "as a living organism". This is supported by a methodology that will promote a consistent categorisation of the infrastructure resources, thereby facilitating a mapping between Use Case requirements and infrastructure offerings.

The INFINITY project will produce an evolving series of recommendations, roadmaps, tactical actions and strategies that will enhance the potential for the identified infrastructures to participate in the trialling of FI-PPP Use Cases as the Programme progresses towards Phase 2.

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INFINITY has received EC research funding.