The FP7 PERSIST Project

Patrick Hayden presented PERSIST at the Future Internet Service Offer session at the Future Internet event in Prague and participated in panel 1 whose topic was "Challenges for the Future Internet". The other panelists were Juanjo Hierro (FAST and the SFE Open Alliance), Joe Butler (SLA@SOI), Barry Norton (Service Web 3.0), Sergio Gusmeroli (COIN), Arne Berre (SHAPE),  Nuria De-Lama Sanchez (SOA4All), Stefano de Panfilis (NEXOF-RA) and Philipe Massonet (GridTrust).

The panel discussed the challenges and functionalities of the future internet as provided by the Future Internet Taskforce. PERSIST addresses 69 of the 177 functionalities (39%) identified by the Future Internet Taskforce. In his presentation, Patrick outlined which functionalities are addressed by PERSIST and identified a number of the resulting research challenges.