The Commission consults on the next generation Internet (NGI?)

The Commission has published a Communication on future networks and the internet as well as a public consultation on the early challenges of the "Internet of Things" that adresses issues such as identification and sensing technologies, and related privacy and spectrum issues. The Commission also published a new broadband performance index that compares broadband performances across members States based on key measures such as broadband speed, competition, coverage but also prices. All documents are available here.

Responses, in pre-determined format (and with a maximum of 10 pages) must be sent to the Commission by 28th November 2008.

On this basis, the Commission aims at publishing a Communication in 2009 that will focus on architectures, control of critical infrastructures, emerging applications, security, privacy and data protection, spectrum management, regulations and standards, & broader socio-economic aspects of the "Internet of things".