International Co-operation in Trustworthy,
Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures

The Trust and Security communities were represented during two sessions during the recent FIA Valencia event. The session ‘Foundations of Trust in the Future Internet' explored the human and technical foundations of trust in the Future Internet with the intent of developing a roadmap for future cross domain research. In his introductory remarks, session chair Volkmar Lotz stated  "there was a need to come back to the foundations of Trust in the Future Internet because security and trust is really ‘cross-cutting' topic, and must be addressed from many different angles to achieve confidence and trust in the services and infrastructure of FI to readily participate in a digital life and digital society".   Four invited speakers each addressed a key topic for the Future Internet:

·         Security Challenges for the Future Internet, Prof. Evangelos Markatos, FORTH and University of Crete 

·         Provenance in the Future Internet, Dr. Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, R&D Director, iSOCO

·         Economics of Trust and Security, Dr Simon Shiu, System Security Lab, HP Labs  

·        Legal frameworks for Trust in the Future Internet, Mireille Hildbrandt, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

During Architecture Session 2 on Concrete results for the Future Internet, the work undertaken during the Identity session of FIA Stockholm and follow up activities related to a sustainable ID Framework for the Future Internet were presented by Amardeo Sarma of NEC Laboratories Europe. The coverage of Privacy enhancing ID management across the layers has been recognised as a good example of collaboration across the work streams of the Future Internet Assembly. The Trust and Identity caretakers, along with the relevant researchers, in the final plenary session of FIA Stockholm decided that this topic was mature enough to pursue in a more results oriented way. This culminated in a focussed "interim FIA workshop" held on 3rd March 2010 dedicated to the topic, whose principle results were highlighted in a presentation entitled Sustainable Identity Framework for the Future Internet during the Towards a Future Internet Architecture Session 2 (Concrete results are already available).  The full report of this interim workshop is available at the Trust and Identity caretakers wiki. The presentation highlighted the consensus amongst the participants of the necessity to leverage existing privacy solutions of PrimeLife, TAS3 and SWIFT towards privacy enabled identity systems and infrastructures in both the short term (PPP) and longer term (FP7/FP8) with a distinct goal of sustaining better privacy and security than available today and making privacy a European trademark of the 21st century.

The Trust and Identity "caretakers" of FIA are Nick Wainwright, Jim Clarke, Volkmar Lotz and Michel Riguidel. Their main role is coordinating the activities within and between all the cross domain clusters and are intermediaries between the European Commission and the FI projects that are signatories to the Bled Declaration.