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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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