ACTIVITY REPORT 1/2000  Working Group 6.7:  Smart Networks
Previous name: Intelligent Networks (IN)
by Olli Martikainen 

WG 6.7 on Smart Networks has concentrated in the research and development of intelligent capabilities in networks and the corresponding service architectures. 
There has been a clear shift from centralized IN-based services to more distributed architectures.  New emerging research includes Intelligent Agents, Mobile Agents, Active Networks, Programmable Networks, Configurable Architectures for software and hardware, Dependable, reconfigurable Networks, Mobility Management, QoS Management and Network integration issues.. The  creation, distribution and management of intelligent services on top of internet infrastructure will demand standardized solutions for authentication, billing, security and service platforms. 

The WG 6.7 memberlist and minutes of the WG 6.7 meeting on 24.11.1999 are included as annex.  The next WG 6.7 meeting will take place during the Smartnet'2000 conference in Vienna.  The new version of the Working Group Aims and Scopes will be discussed in TC6 meeting in Paris 13-14 May 2000.

The last WG 6.7 event Smartnet'99 in 22 - 26 November 1999; Bangkok, Thailand was a success.  There were 145 participants in tutorials, 112 in the conference and in addition there were 30 invited participants.  The breakeven was met. 

There are four events in preparation in WG 6.7:

Conference;
Smartnet'2000; WG 6.7
18 - 22 September 2000; Vienna, Austria.
Email contact: Harmen.R.van-As@tuwien.ac.at 
Web: http://www.ikn.tuwien.ac.at/smartnet 

Conference:
IWAN2000; IEEE, IFIP
16 – 18  October 2000 in Tokyo, Japan
Email contact: iwan2000@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Web: http://www.sdl.hitachico.jp/iwan2000

Conference:
Smartnet'2001; WG 6.7
6 - 10 August 2001 in Lappeenranta, Finland
Email contact: Olli.Martikainen@icon.fi 

Conference;
Smartnet'2002; WG 6.7;
2002; Norway
Email contact: aagesen@item.ntnu.no