[Asrg] Opportunity to get involved in the NSF FIND research program

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From: David Clark <ddc(_at_)csail(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu>
Date: January 10, 2007 8:08:29 AM PST
To: End to End Interest <end2end-interest(_at_)postel(_dot_)org>
Subject: [e2e] Opportunity to get involved in the NSF FIND research
program

Folks,

Many of you may know that NSF has announced a focus area forresearch funding called Future Internet Design, or FIND. The idea behindFIND is to bring together interested researchers to discuss options fora future Internet, and to develop integrated proposals for such anetwork.NSF understands that there is lots of interesting, relevant workthat has been funded from sources other than NSF, and there may be folkswho would like to come to the meetings and participate in the process,on a BYOF (Bring Your Own Funding) basis. You might have funding from adifferent NSF program, from another funding agency, or from yourcompany. Perhaps you are from a different country with its own fundingmechanisms.However you are funded, if you are interesting in being part of theintellectual effort, please read the attached announcement, which is aninvitation to send in an informal white paper describing what you are upto.If you can conceive of other ways to build bridges between this FINDprogram and other research efforts, please send me a message directly.We are open to other ideas.


David Clark (for the FIND Planning Committee)

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   CALL FOR RESEARCH COLLABORATION ON FUTURE INTERNET ARCHITECTURES
               IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE US NSF FIND PROGRAM

BACKGROUND

Much energy has recently crystallized within the international
network research community for developing fresh perspectives on how
to architect a single, coherent, global data network. The
Internet's unquestionable success at embodying one such
architecture has also led over the decades of its operation to
unquestionable difficulties with regard to support for some types
of functionality and sound operation.

As a reflection of this growing community interest, the U.S.
National Science Foundation has announced a focus area for
networking research called FIND, or Future Internet Design. The
agenda of this focus area is to invite the research community to
take a long-range perspective, and to consider what our global
network of 10 or 15 years should be, and how to build a network
that meets the future requirements. (For further information on the
FIND program, see NSF solicitation 07-507, available at http://
www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07507.) The
research funded by FIND aims to contribute to the emergence of one
or more integrated visions of a future network.

A vital part of this effort concerns fostering collaboration and
consensus-building among researchers working on future global
network architecture. To this end, NSF has created a FIND Planning
Committee, which is working with NSF to organize a series of
meetings among FIND grant recipients structured around activities
to identify and refine overarching concepts for a network of the
future.

A BROADER COMMUNITY

NSF recognizes that its efforts at funding research to contribute
to a future global network exists within a broader set of efforts
with similar goals supported by other agencies, industry, and
nations. Accordingly, NSF seeks researchers external to the FIND
program itself?but who share a likeminded vision?to participate in
the collaboration and consensus-building. NSF particularly welcomes
international collaboration?any vision of a future global network
will greatly benefit from global participation.

To this end, external researchers interested in such participation
are invited to submit short white papers describing themselves and
their work. Based on evaluation of these white papers, a select
number of researchers will be invited to join the FIND meetings and
other events, as overall meeting sizes and logistics permit.

EXPECTATIONS AND EVALUATION CRITERIA

Since the efficacy of FIND meetings is in part a function of their
size and coherence, the evaluation of the white papers will focus
on certain criteria that are listed below, along with expectations
regarding what external participation entails. Naturally,
interested parties should take these considerations into account as
they write their white papers, and include information in their
papers sufficient to allow the FIND program to evaluate the aptness
of their participation.

? In a few sentences, please describe your research and its
intended impact. When possible, include as an attachment (or a URL)
a longer description, which if you wish can be something prepared
for another purpose (e.g. your original funding proposal or a
publication). It will help to limit the supporting material to 15
pages or fewer.

? Please summarize in the white paper the ways you see your
research as being compatible with the objectives of FIND (the URL
for the FIND solicitation is included above). Research that accords
with the FIND program will generally be based on a long-term vision
of future networking, rather than addressing specific near-term
problems, and framed in terms of how it might contribute to an
overall architecture for a future network.

? The FIND meetings have been organized for the benefit of
researchers who have already been funded and are actively pursuing
their research. Research described in white papers should already
be funded. Please describe the means you have available to cover
your FIND-related research: the source of funds, their duration,
and (roughly) the supported level of effort. Unfortunately, NSF
lacks additional funds to financially support your participation in
the meetings, so you must be prepared to cover those costs as well.
If you are planning to submit a FIND research proposal to the
current NeTS solicitation, you should not submit a white paper here
based on that research. Successful FIND grant recipients will
automatically be invited to join the FIND community.

? As one of the goals of FIND is to develop an active community of
researchers who over time work increasingly together towards
coherent, overall architectural visions, we aim for external
participants to likewise become significantly engaged. To this end,
you should anticipate (and have resources for) participating in
FIND project meetings in an active, sustained fashion.

? Your research must not be encumbered by intellectual property
restrictions that prevent you from fully discussing your work and
its results with the other participants.

Please try to limit your white paper to 2 pages. Your white paper
(and the supporting research description) will be read by members
of the research community, so do not submit anything that you would
not reveal to your peers. (White papers are not viewed as formal
submissions to NSF.)

TIMING AND SUBMISSION

You may submit a white paper at any time during the FIND program.
Before each scheduled FIND PI meeting, the papers on hand will be
reviewed. Meetings are anticipated to occur approximately three
times a year, in March, July/August and November. The next FIND
meeting is scheduled for March 5/6, 2007, and priority in
consideration for that meeting will be given to white papers that
are received by Friday, January 19th, 2007.

Send your white paper to Darleen Fisher <dlfisher(_at_)nsf(_dot_)gov> and
Allison Mankin <amankin(_at_)nsf(_dot_)gov> for coordination.


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