Opportunites in the Internet Service Economy

我们提出了一个项目，以评估发展创新互联网服务的许多机会的可行性。这项调查将由帝国理工学院互联网中心和帝国理工学院创新研究中心合作进行，并将涉及一系列商业合作伙伴，包括沃达丰、太阳微系统、伦敦交通局、451集团、英国广播公司、O2和英国电信。评估为实现这些机会而需要处理的任何一般潜在因素，确定最有希望的因素，并确定为充分实现这些机会而需要克服的经济、监管和技术障碍。结果将是对这些机会进行全面评估，并为确定为最可行和经济上最重要的服务制定开发和利用计划。计算技术的最新发展，包括面向服务的体系结构、封装、网格计算和虚拟化，提供了将许多ICT过程重新包装为可组合的、按需使用的服务的机会。这提供了一种可能性，即下一代互联网可以被重构为一系列按需使用、按次付费的服务市场。这反过来又为开发许多新的创新服务或以更有效的方式重新包装现有服务提供了机会。由于是虚拟的或基于软件的，这些服务机会中的许多都是低成本的，进入门槛非常低，因此对创新企业来说代表着有吸引力的机会。我们会进行一系列研究，以评估上述服务的可行性和可行性。这些研究将通过访谈和讨论与我们的商业伙伴合作进行。这些研究将探讨这里提出的想法在经济和技术上的可行性，并寻求确定任何需要克服的步骤：经济、监管或技术，以便充分实现这些机会。将对该领域进行初步评估，以确定需要解决的任何一般或潜在因素。然后将进行评估，以确定最有前途的机会。这些已确定的将被更深入地研究。这些研究的结果将包括对该领域的全面评估，对于那些深入研究的机会，详细说明实现这些机会所需的业务和技术发展的路线图。同时，我们将与我们的商业伙伴讨论一个潜在的开发和开发计划。通过这种方式，我们希望能够迅速发展并利用由此确定的最有前途的机会。我们在第三方撰写的网络服务、软件即服务、虚拟设施、消费者支持服务、社区服务、计算资源代理和一般服务代理中识别服务机会。将对该领域进行初步评估，以确定需要解决的任何一般或潜在因素。可能有一些因素，例如安全支付、信任，在所有应用程序中都是常见的，它们的解决将使整个家族的机会得以实现。然后将进行评估，以确定最有前途的机会。这些已确定的将被更深入地研究。这些研究的结果将包括对该领域的全面评估，对于那些深入研究的机会，详细说明实现这些机会所需的业务和技术发展的路线图。同时，我们将与我们的商业伙伴讨论一个潜在的开发和开发计划。通过这种方式，我们希望能够迅速发展并利用最有前途的机会。

We propose a project to assess the viability of the many opportunities that are becoming available to develop innovative Internet-based services. The investigation will be carried out as a collaboration between the Imperial College Internet Centre and the Imperial College Innovation Studies Centre and will involve a range of commercial partners including Vodafone, Sun Microsystems, Transport for London, The 451 Group, the BBC, O2 and BT. The project will assess the economic and technical feasibility of a range of potential innovative Internet services, assess any generic underlying factors that need to be addressed in order to realise them, identify the most promising and determine the economic, regulatory and technical obstacles that need to be overcome to fully realise these opportunities. The outcome will be an overall assessment of these opportunities and a development and exploitation plan for those services identified as the most viable and economically important.Recent developments in computing technologies, including service oriented architectures, encapsulation, Grid computing and virtualisation have provided the opportunity to repackage many ICT processes as composable, use-on-demand services. This provides the possibility that the next-generation Internet could be refactored as a series of markets in use-on-demand, pay-per-use services. This in turn provides the opportunity to develop many new innovative services or to repackage existing services in more efficient manners. Being virtual or software-based many of these service opportunities are low-cost with very low barriers to entry and thus represent attractive opportunities for innovative enterprises.We will conduct a series of studies to assess the feasibility and viability of the above services. These studies will be carried in collaboration with our commercial partners by interviews and discussion. These studies will address the economic and technical feasibility of the ideas put forward here and seek to identify any steps: economic, regulatory or technical, that need to be overcome in order to realise these opportunities to the full. An initial assessment of the field will be made to identify any generic or underlying factors that need to be addressed. An evaluation will then be made to identify the most immediately promising opportunities. Those identified will be studied in more depth. The output of these studies will include an overall assessment of the field and, for those opportunities studied in depth, a roadmap detailing the business and technical developments needed to realise these opportunities. At the same time we will discuss with our commercial partners a potential development and exploitation plan. In this way we hope to be in a position to be able to rapidly develop and exploit the most promising opportunities thus identified.We identify service opportunities in third-party authored Web Services, Software as a Service, Virtual Facilities, Consumer Support Services, Community Services, Computational Resources Brokering and a General Service Broker.An initial assessment of the field will be made to identify any generic or underlying factors that need to be addressed. It may be that a few factors, e.g. secure payment, trust, are common among all applications and that their resolution would enable a whole family of opportunities to be realised. An evaluation will then be made to identify the most immediately promising opportunities. Those identified will be studied in more depth.The output of these studies will include an overall assessment of the field and, for those opportunities studied in depth, a roadmap detailing the business and technical developments needed to realise these opportunities. At the same time we will discuss with our commercial partners a potential development and exploitation plan. In this way we hope to be in a position to be able to rapidly develop and exploit the most promising opportunities.