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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This document is a work product of the Industrial Internet Consortium Connectivity Task Group, co-chaired by Dr. Rajive Joshi( RTI) and Paul Didier( Cisco).
EDITORS Rajive Joshi( Lead, RTI), Stephen Mellor( IIC), Paul Didier( Cisco) AUTHORS The following persons have written substantial portion of material content in this document: Rajive Joshi( Lead, RTI), Paul Didier( Cisco), Jaime Jimenez( Ericsson), Timothy Carey( Nokia) CONTRIBUTORS
The following persons have contributed valuable ideas and feedback that significantly improve the content and quality of this document:
Bob Gessel( Ericsson), Tony Hodgson( Synapse Wireless), Matthew Gilmore( Itron), Edward Eckert( Itron), Aron Semle( Kepware), Jeff Lund( Belden), Cliff Faurer( Enterprise Web), Christoph Gericke( Harting), Stefan Schönegger( BR Automation), Tom Rutt( Fujitsu), Jiyhe Lee( Samsung), Farooq Bari( AT & T), Gerardo Pardo-Castellote( RTI), Stan Schneider( RTI), Reinier Torenbeek( RTI), Brett Murphy( RTI), Norman Finn( Cisco), Kevin White( Distrix), Mark Crawford( SAP), Shi- Wan Lin( Thingswise), Aravind Parandhaman( NEC), Jeff Harding( ABB), Eric Harper( ABB), Brad Miller( GE), Marcellus Buchheit( Wibu-Systems)
We are also grateful to everyone who made comments on the draft version available to the Connectivity Task Group, and will thank in advance anyone who provides further constructive comments on the current version.
We acknowledge the work by the members of the Architecture Task Group led by Shi-Wan Lin for developing the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture and the Vocabulary Team lead by Anish Karmarkar in the Technology Working Group for maintaining the Vocabulary; both those are a companion document to this one.
Finally, we are grateful for the ongoing support of IIC Staff, whose diligence with supporting the tools and the mechanics of the document writing have made this process easier.
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