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NSF Future Internet Network Design
PI Meeting

Marriott Westfields Washington Dulles

14750 Conference Center Drive

Chantilly, VA 20151

November 8-9, 2006

Attendance is by invitation only for principal investigators who have received NeTS-FIND awards.

>> Registration. Registration will be required but free of charge.

An agenda will be posted when it has been finalized. The meeting will start at 9 am on November 8 and end at 3 pm on November 9.

Hotel and travel Information

The FIND Information Meeting will be held at the Marriott Westfields Washington Dulles, 14750 Conference Center Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151:

http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/IADWF

CRA negotiated a room rate of $209 (plus taxes) for a limited number of rooms. The cutoff date for reservations is October 30, 2006. Call 1-800-228-9290 or 1-703-818-0300 and refer to the FIND MEETING to make your room reservation. Please make any necessary travel arrangements now. CRA will reimburse your expenses after the meeting. Please see reimbursement information for expense guidelines, limitations, and restrictions. If you miss the cutoff date you will only be reimbursed the negotiated room rate and you will be responsible for any additional amount.

Directions and Transportation

Airport Shuttles are complimentary, upon request, from Dulles International Airport
http://marriott.com/property/mapandnearbyairports/default.mi?marshaCode=iadwf

Expense reimbursement information.

The FIND Program

FIND (Future Internet Design) is a major new long-term initiative of the NSF NeTS research program. FIND invites the research community to consider what the requirements should be for a global network of 15 years from now, and how we could build such a network if we are not constrained by the current Internet—if we could design it from scratch. FIND solicits research across the broad area of network architecture, principles, and mechanism 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 state of networking.

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

How can we design a network that is fundamentally more secure and available than today’s Internet? How would we conceive the security problem if we could start from scratch?
How might such functions as information dissemination, location management or identity management best fit into a new network architecture?
What will be the long-term impact of new technologies such as advanced wireless and optics?
How will economics and technology interact to shape the overall design of a future network?
How do we design a network that preserves a free and open society?