[CAnet - news] Future Internet Network Design Meeting announced

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Dear Colleague,

This is to announce an informational meeting about the US National Science
Foundation's Future Internet Network Design (FIND) research initiative. FIND
is a new focus area within the NSF's Networking Technology and Systems
(NETS) research program. The meeting will be held Monday, December 5, 2005,
8:30AM - 4:30PM, at the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport.

The goals, structure, and emphasis of the FIND initiative differ somewhat
from current NETS programs. For this reason, those interested in proposing
research within this area are strongly encouraged to attend this
informational meeting.

Further information about the informational meeting is available below and
at the meeting website, http://find.isi.edu.

(Please note that the deadline for NSF NETS Program proposal submissions is
*not* December 14, 2005, contrary to information in the previous NETS
solicitation. The new solicitation, including information about FIND and
with new submission deadlines, will be posted shortly.)


The FIND Program

FIND (Future Internet Network Design) is a major new long-term initiative of
the NSF NETS research program. FIND asks two broad
questions:

* What are the requirements for the global network of 15 years from
   now - what should that network look like and do?

and

* How would we re-conceive tomorrow's global network today, if we
   could design it from scratch?

The FIND program will solicit "clean slate process" research proposals in
the broad area of network architecture, principles, and design, aimed at
answering these questions. The philosophy of the program is to help conceive
the future by momentarily letting go of the present - freeing our collective
minds from the constraints of the current.

The intellectual scope of the FIND program is wide. As examples, FIND
research might address questions such as:

* What will the edge of the network look like in 15 years? How
   might the network architecture of 15 years hence best
   accommodate sensors, embedded systems, and the like?

* How might the network of 15 years from now support what users
   really do (and care about)? How might such functions as
   information access, location management or identity management
   best fit into a new overall network architecture?

* How might the overall responsibility for security best be
   partitioned between network and end-system, what, if any, new
   mechanisms are needed in each case, and how might those mechanisms
   best be provided?

* What will the core of the network look like in 15 years? How
   might the changing economics of optical systems affect the
   overall design of the larger network?

The Informational Meeting

The goals of the meeting are to provide all interested parties with an
overview of the FIND initiative, and to help potential proposers to develop
the strongest possible proposals for FIND research.

The informational meeting will include:

* discussion by NSF Program Directors Guru Parulkar and Darleen Fisher
   of the scope, purpose, and intellectual underpinnings of the FIND
   program, together with guidance for potential proposers about the
   program's structure and review process.

* a presentation by MIT's David Clark discussing motivations,
   approaches, examples, and some possible outcomes and benefits of the
   "clean slate process" research envisioned by the FIND program.

* panel sessions, designed to foster discussion of ways in which
   different communities within the broad umbrella of networking and
   distributed systems fit within and might contribute to FIND.

* opportunities for open mike / FAQ / town meeting / community
   discussion, with the goal of further developing and strengthening this
   exciting new initiative in networking research.

The meeting will take place on Monday, December 5, 2005, at the Hilton
Washington Dulles Airport. Further details about the meeting and hotel are
available at http://find.isi.edu. A full agenda for the meeting will be
posted shortly.

Due to the short deadline, please register as soon as possible at
http://find.isi.edu. There is no fee to register for the meeting.

A block of rooms at the meeting hotel has been held at a preferential rate
for the night of Sunday, December 4th. You must reserve your room by
*Monday, November 28* to obtain this rate. Information needed to reserve
rooms from this block is available at the meeting website. Please make your
hotel reservations as soon as possible to ensure that the hotel is able to
accommodate all attendees.

Thanks for your interest in the FIND Program!
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