[LINK] GENI-US

[Roger Clarke]

[Apologies if this has been linked before, and I missed it]

The [U.S.] National Science Foundation (NSF) is planning an 
initiative called the Global Environment for Networking 
Investigations (GENI).  See:
http://www.nsf.gov/cise/geni/

The Vision is stated to be to:
-   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 control and management of other critical infrastructures;
-   Include ease of operation and usability; and
-   Enable new classes of societal-level services and applications.

More specifically, the focus is on:
-   Creating new core functionality: Going beyond existing paradigms 
of datagram, packet and circuit switching; designing new naming, 
addressing, and overall identity architectures, and new paradigms of 
network management;
-   Developing enhanced capabilities: Building security into the 
architecture; designing for high availability; balancing privacy and 
accountability; designing for regional difference and local values;
-   Deploying and validating new architectures: Designing new 
architectures that incorporate emerging technologies (e.g., new 
wireless and optical technologies) and new computing paradigms 
enabled by pervasive devices;
-   Building higher-level service abstractions: Using, for example, 
information objects, location-based services, and identity frameworks;
-   Building new services and applications: Making large-scale 
distributed applications secure, robust and manageable; developing 
principles and patterns for distributed applications; and
-   Developing new network architecture theories: Investigating 
network complexity, scalability, and economic incentives.

Unfortunately the acronym clashes with the Global Energy Network 
Institute at http://www.geni.org ...

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Roger Clarke                  http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/

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Visiting Professor in the eCommerce Program      University of Hong Kong
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