NeTS-NBD: Future Internet Design (FIND) Architecture and Outreach Coordination

该提案描述了一组适合NSF FIND项目更大背景下的任务，该项目是CISE当前net征求的一部分。FIND计划考虑的问题是，未来10年或15年的全球网络应该是什么样子，以及需要进行哪些研究来建立它。许多因素将区分在这个网络重点领域中资助的研究与更传统的nsf支持的研究，包括在他们的项目过程中需要将一些单独资助的研究团队聚集在一起，早期目标是团队建设，最终目标是收敛于少量的网络架构一致的建议。这些特别目标表明，在传统的征求过程中通常不会提出或资助的一些任务将必须进行。该提案旨在通过解决这些特殊需求来帮助NSF实现这个项目的总体目标。在与NSF的合作中，我提议承担FIND项目的建筑和外联协调员的角色。这里提出的任务为NSF提供了一个处理以下问题的机会：架构框架和基础，工作会议和社区建设的其他工具，扩展，正在进行的项目规划，确定研究优先事项（以及可能缺失的调查领域），将非NSF资助的各方纳入协调过程，以及与GENI计划的联系，一个拟议的MREFC项目，以支持诸如FIND之类的研究。这不是一个定义新架构的建议，因为该任务应该在稍后进行，并且应该与协调任务分开。知识价值：本提案的知识价值在于有可能改变计算机网络研究的格局，并为研究团体定义一个更广泛和更长远的目标。这项工作可以导致对未来网络的长期需求的更连贯的表述，以及对需求和机制之间关系的社区中不断增长的理解。这项工作可以导致对特定子领域（如安全）的重点的实质性转移。它可以导致对互联网设计替代方案的新理解。这些成果将不仅仅是这一建议的结果，但这一建议的工作将增加整体努力的重点和一致性，并帮助发现项目实现其长期目标。更广泛的影响：这项工作的更广泛的影响将由find项目的成功来衡量，无论是在研究界，还是从长远来看，在整个世界。FIND的目标是为世界提供一个更好的互联网：更安全、更可预测、更符合未来需求。这一倡议如果成功，将产生非常明显的重大影响。这一提议的目标，尤其在于培养将个人和小团队的研究贡献转化为更大的、有组织的对高层次目标的攻击的过程。如果NSF成功实现了这一愿景，那么一个更好、更安全、更符合社会需求的互联网的回报将是NSF和研究界的巨大贡献。

This proposal describes a set of tasks that fit within the larger context of the NSF FIND program, part of the current NeTS solicitation from CISE. The FIND program considers the question of what a future global network of 10 or 15 years should be, and what research is required to build it. A number of factors will differentiate the research funded in this networking focus area from more traditional NSF-supported research, including the need to bring a number of separately funded research teams together over the course of their projects, with an early goal of team building, and a final goal of convergence toward a small number of coherent proposals for network architecture. These special goals signal that some tasks will have to be undertaken that would not normally be proposed or funded in the context of the traditional solicitation process. This proposal is intended to assist NSF in achieving its overall goals for this project by addressing some of these special needs. In cooperation with NSF, I propose to take on the role of Architecture and Outreach Coordinator for the FIND project.The tasks proposed here offers NSF an opportunity to deal with the following issues: architecture framing and groundwork, working meetings and other tools for community building, outreach, ongoing program planning, identification of research priorities (and possible missing areas of investigation), integration of non-NSF funded parties into the coordination process, and linkage to the GENI program, a proposed MREFC project to support research such as FIND. This is not a proposal to define a new architecture, since that task should be undertaken later, and should be separated from the task of coordination.Intellectual merit: The intellectual merit of this proposal is the potential to shift the landscape of research in computer networking, and to define a broader and longer-range target for the research community. This work can lead to a more coherent articulation of long-range requirements for a future network, and a growing understanding in the community of the relationship between requirements and mechanism. This work can lead to a substantive shift in focus of specific sub-fields, such as security. It can lead to new understanding of Internet design alternatives. These outcomes will not be in consequence of this proposal alone, but this proposed work will increase the focus and coherence of the overall effort and assist the FIND program in meeting its long-term goals.Broader impact: The broader impact of this work will be measured by the success of theFIND project, both in the research community and, in the longer run, in the world at large. The goal of FIND is to offer to the world a better Internet: more secure, more predictable, and more relevant to tomorrow's needs. This initiative, if successful, will have a highly visible impact of major proportions. The goal of this proposal, in particular, is to nurture the process of turning research contributions from individuals and small teams into a larger, organized assault on the high-level goal. If the NSF is successful at this vision, the payoff of a better, more secure Internet, better aligned with the needs of society, is a powerful contribution by NSF and the research community.