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

该提案描述了一组适合NSF FIND计划更大背景的任务，这是CISE当前NetTS征集的一部分。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的，以及建立它需要什么样的研究。一些因素将使这个网络重点领域的研究与更传统的NSF支持的研究区分开来，包括需要在项目过程中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，最终目标是朝着少数网络体系结构的一致建议进行融合。这些特殊目标表明，有些任务将不得不进行，而这些任务通常不会在传统的招标过程中提出或供资。本提案旨在通过解决其中一些特殊需求，帮助NSF实现本项目的总体目标。在与NSF的合作中，我建议担任FIND项目的架构和外联协调员。这里提出的任务为NSF提供了处理以下问题的机会：架构框架和基础工作，工作会议和其他社区建设工具，外展，正在进行的计划规划，确定研究优先事项（以及可能缺失的研究领域），将非NSF资助的各方纳入协调过程，以及与GENI计划的联系，这是一个拟议的MREFC项目，旨在支持FIND等研究。这不是一个定义新架构的建议，因为这项任务应该在以后进行，应该从协调任务中分离出来。智力价值：这一建议的智力价值是改变计算机网络研究景观的潜力，并为研究界确定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一致的阐述，以及社区对需求和机制之间关系的日益理解。这项工作可导致安全等具体分领域的重点发生实质性转变。它可以导致对互联网设计替代方案的新理解。这些成果不仅是本提案的结果，而且本提案的工作将增加整体工作的重点和一致性，并帮助FIND计划实现其长期目标。更广泛的影响：本工作的更广泛的影响将通过FIND项目在研究界和长期的全球范围内的成功来衡量。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，更符合未来的需求。这一举措如果成功，将产生显著的重大影响。这项建议的目标，特别是要培育的过程，把研究贡献从个人和小团队到一个更大的，有组织的攻击的高层次的目标。如果NSF在这一愿景上取得成功，那么一个更好、更安全的互联网的回报，更好地满足社会的需求，将是NSF和研究界的强大贡献。

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.