PSIRP has started!

It’s been a year of planning, proposing and negotiating within the EU FP7 (7th framework programme of the EU), and now it’s finally started: PSIRP (publish-subscribe internetworking routing paradigm) is an explorative small-scale (in EU terms) project within the European Future Internet efforts.

I’m quite excited about this effort. About a year ago, I met Pekka Nikander from the NomadicLab during a presentation he gave in Helsinki on his idea to replace IP with a pubsub-ish internetworking protocol instead. After some talking about commonalities and the intention to do something, the proposal writing started. My change to BT in the meanwhile did not halt the proposal submission at all.

Now it’s finally time to start with the real interesting bit, namely the work. We had our kick-off in Helsinki this week. It was an uplifting event that showed the entire consortium (seven partners from five European countries) what the idea was all about, namely to explore the possibilities to replace IP with something that could potentially become the foundation for the new Internet.

How much of this will become reality is unclear. But it seems to hold the promise for some 30 months of real fun research with great results. I’m hopeful and excited to get started. I’m sure there will be more to write in the future.