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Jan 2009 Update

After a successful first year where 12 deliverables and 10 milestone reports were delivered from the EFIPSANS project, EFIPSANS moves into its second year which includes:

•  The first meeting of the AFI.  The AFI is the "Autonomic network engineering for the self-managing Future Internet".  This group is an ISG (Industry Specification Group) inside ETSI to suggest European standard in the are of Autonomics.  The first meeting is scheduled for Feb 26th.

• Plans to attempt to investigate possible Internet Drafts in 3 areas In-line Congestion Reporting, IPv6 Extension Dependencies and ICMPv6 extensions (including Hop-By-Hop extension restrictions)
• Project Review is scheduled for March 12th

Our publications in the first year were:

1. "Creating a viable Evolution Path towards Self-Managing Future Internet via a Standardizable Reference Model for Autonomic Network Engineering"
   Chaparadza et al (including Alan Davy and Kevin Quinn)
   To be published in FIA PRAGUE 2009 (accepted)

2. "An approach to Measurement Based Quality of Service Control for Communications Networks"
   Alan Davy, Brendan Jennings, Dmitri Botvich
   To be published in IM 2009 Dissertation Digest (accepted)
3. "Monitoring within an Autonomic Network: A GANA based Network Monitoring Framework"
   Anastasios Zafeiropolus, Athanassios Liakopolus, Alan Davy, Ranganai Chaparadza
   Submitted to IEEE JSAC 2009
4. "Towards a Testbed Instantiation of GANA: Realising Autonomic Site-Multihoming"
   Alan Davy, John Ronan, Lei Shi, Ranganai Chaparadza
   Submitted to ICAC 2009