Situated and Autonomic Communication (AC) research roadmap needs to be addressed from a mixture of viewpoints. What are the market drivers for AC? Can we really automate SLA? Does it help AC to radically depart from TCP/IP? Do we know all new requirements for networking software, auto-and re-configuration? How autonomics shall transform network management? What's the role of governance in autonomic control hierarchy, and do we know how hierarchy should emerge? These and similar questions were

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... ed to set the scene for the panel discussion on AC roadmap. 1 ACCA -Autonomic Communication Coordination Action, IST-6475 http://www. autonomic-communication.org/projects/acca/ I. Stavrakakis and M. Smirnov (Eds.): WAC 2005, LNCS 3854, pp. 293-302, 2006.