Dissemination

By dissemination, we mean making the results of this project visible to a wide audience. This will be achieved by the following means:

• publishing and presenting results within the scientific community;
• providing input to the Robust Open Source (ROS) movement; and
• influencing the relevant standardisation bodies.

The relevant scientific community is in fact at present really a set of almost entirely distinct communities, namely the fault tolerance, distributed computing, intrusion detection cryptography and computer security communities, each with their own journals, conferences, and workshops.

In keeping with one of the main distinguishing characteristics of the MAFTIA partnership and its research objectives, we will therefore seek not only to disseminate our results in these separate communities, but also to contribute energetically to activities that will help bring the communities together.

Our intent is to complement MAFTIAs technical work by what might be termed technical evangelism. Indeed, several of the partners are already engaged, under the aegis of the IEEE and IFIP, in such activities. Similarly, partners have been actively involved in attempts to promote transatlantic co-operation between researchers in these communities.