The Future Internet (FI) is expected to be a holistic communication and information
exchange ecosystem, which will interface, interconnect, integrate and expand today’s
Internet, public and private intranets and networks of any type and scale, in order to
provide efficiently, transparently, interoperably, flexibly, timely and securely services
(including essential and critical services) to humans and systems, while still allowing for
tussles among the various stakeholders without restricting considerably their choices