In the deregulated European telecomms market of tomorrow a big number of specialised services will be available to the public. The profile of both the service providers and the end-users will change significantly. Many competing specialised service providers will be trying to increase their market share with offering customised services to a big number of users.
Service provisioning becomes more interesting as resale of services becomes possible.
On top of that, the big number of end-users adds more requirements for security, anonymity and QoS management. Many working groups of the scientific community and the industry have come up with various solutions from different angles.