NBI

The NBI system design and a sizable part of its detailed design have been performed already.
Suppliers, supporters, sponsors and/or early partners are sought for the next steps to be undertaken: ICT development and implementation.

• Coding and test of the specification language interpreter [the distributed environment will be simulated on a single machine, but the sample business settings and their operating functionalities – small value-chain, manufacturing site, sales network, office, eGovernment, consumer-business interface – will be complete]; this step will emulate terminals and servers, and implement the Operations part of the Data base;
• Software coding and hardware development for a stand-alone company / organization support system, with the full range of expected services; this step will develop the server software, exploiting key design competences in: hardware choice / design, Linux, data base, security, test in malfunction conditions;
• Software coding and hardware development for a full distributed environment, again with the full range of expected services; this step will develop server software as above, exploiting similar design competences with the addition of testing malfunction conditions within a distributed architecture.

• Product / service industrialization;
• Implementation and commercialization agreements.

Since the "natural" supplier of a non stand-alone offer shall be a Telco [the TLC layer is used for normal operation – massive management of message queues – and is critical for storage recovery in emergency conditions], the industrialization should be performed preferably by a telecom equipment provider, while the commercialization would preferably be in pay-per-use form, under a revenue sharing agreements between the Telco and the development partners.