Future Internet Research: The EU framework Dr. J. Schwarz da Silva Director Converged Networks and Services DG- Information Society and Media European Commission The views expressed herewith are purely those of the author and may not necessarily be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission Categories and Subject Descriptors: C.0 General Terms: Management , Performance, Design, Economics, Reliability, Experimentation, Security, Standardization, Languages, Theory, Legal Aspects ¢ The neutral access characteristics have enabled various networking platforms and providers to offer competing access paths to the Internet, and contributed to the infrastructure competition objective that has been recognised by regulators (EU1 and OECD2) as an important tool to catalyse the deployment of modern (e.g. mobile and broadband) networks; The clear layering from a network, service and content perspective 3 have enabled competition and innovation to flourish at different levels of the value chain whilst at the same time opening new opportunities for innovative business models; Even if security and resilience aspects have been questioned, today s Internet architecture has demonstrated a good level of resilience to physical network disruption (e.g. through build in alternate routing capabilities of packets). The recent incident in Taiwan is
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