Which of the following best describes what you are building for this program (please feel free to elaborate):
* infrastructure for collaborative environments

Which of the following IC&V program objectives will your research results support:
* Enable access via diverse portals, from hand-held through room-sized
* Enable interoperability across diverse encoding formats, co-ordination and consistency protocols, and real-time services
* Scale collaborations to 10 active collaborators, 100 questioners, and 1000 observers
* Enable real-time discovery of relevant collaborators and information within a task
* Reduce by an order of magnitude the time to establish collaborative sessions across heterogeneous environments

Who do you see as the users of your products--please give more specifics, if possible:
* DOD: JTF/ATD and generally ISO architecture middleware layer
* Office workers: to pose queries and annotate
* Managers: to pose queries and annotate
* Scientific Researchers: to pose queries and annotate
* Software Engineers: to pose queries and annotate
* Other: middleware vendors via OMG, W3C participation, product for these communities is specs, architecture, and roadmaps

When will your research "product" be ready to share with potential end users (in the lab, in the field:)
* Within the next 6 months
* Within the next year
* Within 1-2 years

What information from potential end users would assist you in developing and refining your system?
pointers to and access to information plus contact info on - ISO architecture - JTF/ATD, JFACC, ALP, GENOA -

When evaluating the utility of your product, what will be your measures of success?
good engineering - works, easy to install and use, scalable, timliness useful - adds functional value, desirable capability, portable - works on variety of platforms

What can the Evaluation Working Group provide that would assist you in your testing and evaluation (check as many as apply):
* Access to end users for design, testing or discussion
* HCI and usability experts
* Scenarios or scripts to exercise collaborative systems

Where do you see relationships between your system or research product and others in the IC&V program?
IC&V stack ::= networking collaborative middleware <-- our work is mostly here collaboration frameworks collaboration applications visualization

Any other comments:
In addition to scenarios, there are domains of interest that include JFACC, ALP, JTF/ATD, GENOA, software engineering, chip design, collaboratories for giving remote access to expensive equipment, .... It would be valuable to have a list of these on the EWG home page along with a description of each.



Craig Thompson
thompson@objs.com