National Science Foundation’s First Town Hall Meeting on
GENI—Global Environment for Networking Innovations

March 10, 2006
9:00am-4:30 pm
Hyatt Arlington, Arlington, VA
Senate Salon B & C

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The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is planning a new initiative, “Global Environment for Networking Innovations” (GENI), to explore new networking capabilities that will advance science and stimulate innovation and economic growth. GENI’s goal is to increase the quality and quantity of experimental research outcomes in networking and distributed systems, and to accelerate the transition of these into products and services that will enhance economic competitiveness and help to secure the nation's future. Ultimately, the research enabled by GENI is expected to lead to a next generation of network capabilities and services.

Specifically, the GENI initiative envisions the creation of new networking and distributed system architectures that, for example:

• Build in security and robustness;
• Enable the vision of pervasive computing and bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds by including mobile, wireless and sensor networks;
• Enable secure control and management of other critical infrastructures;
• Include ease of operation and usability; and
• Foster new classes of societal-level services and applications.

The GENI initiative includes a research program and a global experimental facility designed to explore new architectures, distributed systems and networked applications at scale.

CRA organized the First National Science Foundation Town Hall Meeting, March 10, 2006, to gather broad community input about GENI that will be used to further inform and refine the design of the GENI facility plan.

This meeting provided CISE with the opportunity to engage the broader research community in the GENI initiative by:

• Describing the goals and rationale for GENI;
• Explaining the details of the process for defining, funding, and building GENI;
• Providing a detailed overview of the “strawman” GENI facility plan developed by the GENI planning committee (see www.geni.net for the current strawman plan); and
• Inviting the broader community to provide feedback on the GENI initiative, including the plans for the GENI facility.

The March 10th Town Hall meeting included a morning of presentations and an afternoon of breakout sessions to discuss and provide feedback on such research topics as they relate to the GENI facility:

Distributed computing and applications

• Facility design and management
• Measurement, theory, and performance
• Optical networks
• Protocols and new Internet architectures
• Real-time systems
• Security
• Wireless and sensor networks

Prior to the meeting, relevant materials were provided to ensure that the discussions and feedback were productive.

Questions? Contact CRA's Dana Neill, dneill [at] cra.org

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