The document discusses the concept of Internet Science and calls for a multidisciplinary approach. It proposes creating a Network of Excellence that brings together experts from fields like networking, computing, sociology and more to advance Internet Science. This network would support activities like workshops, researcher exchanges and defining new curricula to help create profiles of "Internet scientists" and architect future Internet developments from a holistic perspective.

1. ••• Internet Science FIRE conference Ghent 15 December 2010 "The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission" (georgios.tselentis, fabrizio.sestini) @ ec.europa.eu New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities European Commission DG Information Society and Media

11. ••• people/society Individuals/business distributed c entrally controlled Future Internet scenarios (Oxford Internet Institute Study on Technological, Social and Economic aspects of FI) Big Brother : commercial services entertainment (e.g. IPTV) DRM-heavy apolitical Universal Wiki: (user-gen. knowledge) P2P, free content blogs social nets e-democracy

12. Technological and Policy choices have Social and Economic impacts Findings from the MIT workshop Universal Wiki Big Brother Internet infrastructure Current architecture ad hoc/mesh, user driven Vertically integrated specialized nets Technological developments Interoperability Distributed control Generalized wiki NGN or "clean slate“ for streaming Walled gardens Security and Privacy Privacy / identity more than security Online Reputation Strong Security, proprietary Policy Light / no IPR protection Transparency Strong IPR protection Standards Open or Open source standards Multi-cultural supp ort Competing closed standards may prevail National customisation Network Neutrality Key, to enforce Just a burden

13. ••• open standards proprietary systems privacy identity security environmental monitoring sensors/IoT customer control trust/reputation P2P IPR distributed mesh/multi-hop centralised control, clouds People / society Individuals / business end-to-end principle NGN Understanding links between technological issues and socio-economic impacts

16. Architecture… ?

17. What competences does an architect need tecnology / infrastructures sociology art policy / economy Life and Social Sciences

22. Do not forget experimentation! “ An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” 1768 oil-on-canvas painting by Joseph Wright of Derby