CONVERGENCE

The CONVERGENCE project is an European FP7 project aiming at enhancing the Internet with a content-centric, publish-subscribe service model, based on a common container for any kind of digital data, including representations of people and Real World Objects... CONVERGENCE targets professional and non-commercial providers and consumers of digital content, allowing them to publish, control, search for, and use content, independently of the structure or geographical location of the content. Users will be able to define their own policies for using, authenticating, protecting and revoking VDIs. The functionality provided by VDIs supports new models of use and new business models, difficult or impossible to implement on the current Internet architecture... CONVERGENCE covers six areas of research: the definition of a new fundamental unit of distribution and transaction, the VDI; new networking functionality; a new open source Middleware; a Community Dictionary Service; security and..

Primary location: Roma Italy