[INFOD-WG] Draft INFOD Elevator Pitch

[Fisher, SM (Steve)]

Arjun,

 I like this but think it is best "finalised" when we are together at
OGF21

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:infod-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Shankar, Mallikarjun
> Sent: 09 August 2007 17:25
> To: infod-wg at ggf.org
> Subject: [INFOD-WG] Draft INFOD Elevator Pitch
> 
> 
> Here is a draft of a pitch that we may want to give our
> friendly neighborhood sponsors (funders, 
> investors, patrons, etc..) as we run into them in a lobby or 
> while riding up an elevator.
> 
> Am intentionally using the symmetric 
> terms publisher and subscriber, producer and consumer,
> and source and destination somewhat interchangeably.
> 
> Comments and edits (both major and minor) welcome. 
> 
> -Arjun
> 
> 
> Suppose you need to be able to channel the flow of data 
> from thousands of sources to thousands of destinations flexibly.
> You need this for applications such as alerting (e.g., for stock
> tickers,
> or threat/monitoring sensors and actuators), simply matching 
> buyers and
> sellers
> in a retail situation, etc..
> You need a system that allows a dynamic way to match the
> sources and destinations of the streaming data in a flexible manner -
> without
> being too limiting in how you enforce the match (in terms of
> choice of languages for expressing constraints or necessarily 
> specifying
> 
> precise sources or destinations).
> INFOD lets publishers and subscribers of information advertise
> their requirements and capabilities with their own data-vocabularies,
> and
> it helps match them - INFOD thus ends up creating the plumbing for
> communities
> of interest based on types of content.
> In addition, you need a way to react dynamically as the condition
> or state of the producers and consumers of data changes.
> INFOD takes into account such situations;  most existing
> systems do not support this.
> INFOD tells the sources where to send and
> how to filter information for a particular destination, and 
> the sources
> and destinations communicate directly with each other. 
> Indirectly, this leads to the subscriber determining what
> constitutes events at the publisher and which messages
> should be created in response to these events.
> (The publishers may do intricate processing on these event 
> message streams before sending messages to the consumers.)
> The vision is to tailor content flow and achieve context 
> aware delivery of "Valued Information at the Right Time".
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