Position paper on research infrastructure for reengineering

The paper proposes a joint effort to build a research infrastructure for the area of reengineering. The main idea is to better share and build upon each other´s results. The article presents some steps that the software community can take to address these issues and to leverage their efforts. Some of these are already underway, some are understood but need to be implemented, and some are themselves research questions that need to be examined. All of them need contributions from volunteer participants. These steps include increased interaction with industry, the development of a repository of research artifacts, and convergence of intermediate representations. The paper is a proposal that requires considerable discussion and consensus before it can be realized