[LINK] GENI-US

[Chris Maltby]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:18:44PM +1000, Roger Clarke wrote:
> [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.

<sarcasm>
No worries - should take them a couple of weeks, tops.
</sarcasm>

Sounds like a huge feast of buzzwords and a nice sinecure for whoever
gets appointed to work on this stuff. Or am I too cynical?

Chris