FIND: Future Internet DesignPI Meeting November 8-9, 2006

Darleen Fisher

CISENational Science Foundation

dlfisher@nsf.gov

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Future Internet Design (FIND)

Creating the Internet you want

in 10-15 years

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The Future Internet:• Worthy of our society’s trust—security and availability

– Even for managing and operating critical infrastructures

• Provides a bridge between physical and virtual worlds– Via instrumented and managed sensorized physical environment

• Privacy preserving in environment of pervasive sensing, computing, content, datamining . . .

• Suitable for tomorrow’s technologies

• Manageable and usable

• Capable of applications support– Content-rich, storage, services, realtime, etc.

• Economically viable

• Fosters a social world in which we would want to live

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What is Different This Time?

• Clean-slate approach

– To overcome Internet ossification

– Research not constrained by the features of the current Internet

– But does not mandate rejecting what currently works

• A comprehensive coordinated effort

– Ability to try different approaches (We do not have a preconceived idea of what they are)

• Ability to experiment at scale

– With real users and applications

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Success Scenarios

• Internet evolution influenced by clean-slate approach

• Alternate Internet architecture emerges

– Alternate architecture(s) coexist with the current Internet

– Virtualization becomes the norm with plurality of architectures

– Single architecture emerges and dominates

• New services and applications enabled

• Invigorate the research community—

– creativity unbound by current Internet, design architectures and build

large systems

• Many other payoffs--some unexpected

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FIND - Different Process• “Goal” oriented Future Internet

– Not typical for NSF research programs– Area has a longer timescale with sustained funding

• Three phases -- iterative and overlapping– Exploration of architectural components and 1st cut

overarching architectures– Convergence into multiple full-scale architectures– Experimentation of architectures at scale

• “Competitive cooperation” model– Competition – Proposal reviews– Cooperation – Among awardees

• Regular meetings -- three times a year• Commitment to openness and transparency

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Stages of ResearchBeginning in 2006

• 26 of 98 projects awarded – some 1 year seed investments

• NeTS = $40M

• FIND = ~$15M (38% of NeTS)

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FIND 2007

• NSF 07-507; January 22, 2007 deadline• FIND project descriptions at: http://nsf-find.cs.umn.edu

• First FIND PI meetings– Begin to create a FIND community and identify areas of

commonality and differences, open research areas– Create new architectures– Nurture creativity and architectural thinking in future

generations of researchers through enriched experiences for graduate students

– Establish a process for including FIND-like researchers from industry, international and academics funded elsewhere

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Challenges• How are network architectures created?

– Are they envisioned or composed? • Individual’s vision?• Small group process?• Community effort?

– Does one start with an overall framework and flesh it out?– Or is an architecture composed of network elements?

• Does an element choice determine the architecture?• Can components be reused by different architectures?

– Can architectures be dynamically composed from building blocks?

• Not presuming a process or the outcome– Expect will emerge over the course of FIND

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Challenges

• How does FIND enable the creation of architectures?– FIND PI Meetings

• What format/content works?• Should there be “focused” additional or alternative

meetings?• How to add researchers funded elsewhere?• Creative ways to engage graduate students• How ensure newcomers are first class citizens—no first

settler royalty

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Challenges

• Broader Impacts– How ensure that students and young faculty are “safe” to

work in the FIND area? – How can FIND group enable publications and

conferences in this area?– How will FIND impact GENI?

• Contribute to GENI Science Plan now• How to make sure FIND architectures inform GENI

• Impact on Future FIND Solicitations– What topics/components are completely missing from the

FIND portfolio?– Where would competing approaches to current portfolio

be healthy?

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Challenges

• Broader Impacts– How ensure that we build a society we want to live

in?• Security

– Can you make the Future Network inherently secure/robust—in cyber war no distinction between military and civilian

– Is it safe for what runs on it e.g. critical infrastructures?

• Privacy– (Revocable?) privacy-preserving mechanisms– With data mining, are there mechanisms for “spyglass” into how

information being collected? Used? How correct the data?

• Social control vs open-society– Who controls content, access to content and sources, collects

data on access records and content (e.g. traffic analysis for predatory behavior)

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NeTS Program Directors 2007

• FIND—Darleen Fisher & Allison Mankin

• NBD—Darleen Fisher

• WN—David Goodman (leaves 2/06)– Recruiting new PD with wireless networking

expertise

• NOSS—David Du

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Allison Mankin

• Co-program director FIND (with Darleen Fisher)• Co-program director GENI (with Guru Parulkar)

– Consultant, Shinkuro, Inc., Bell Labs, USC/ISI, NRL, U. Wisc (visiting scientist), MITRE

– Author of many published networking research papers– Co-editor IPng: Internet Protocol Next Generation 1995– Co-Director, IETF Process for Selection of the Next Generation

Internet Protocol– Director, CAIRN (successor to DARTnet)– Internet2 Abilene Technical AC– Area Director, Internet Engineering Steering Group– Chair, IETF Geolocation Privacy WG (ongoing)– ICANN Security & Stability Committee– Member of various boards, directorates, and working groups

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David Clark“FIND Architecture and Outreach Coordinator”• Remain a member of the research community,

but work with NSF & community– Plan PI meetings– Identify FIND research priorities– Lead FIND team-building– Help FIND researchers frame new architectures– Outreach to researchers funded elsewhere– Outreach to international FIND-like researchers– Provide linkage between FIND and GENI

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FIND Coordination and Planning Committee

• Focused community input into PI meetings, outreach, etc.

– Paul Francis, Cornell– Jim Kurose, UMass– Jen Rexford, Princeton– Srini Seshan, CMU– Vern Paxson, ICSI

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Agenda November 8, 20069:00-10:00 Introduction:

Report on the FIND program and awardsReview of the program objectives and objectives of the meetings

Next steps in creating network architectures Review of the agenda

10:00-10:30 break10:30-12:00 Technical program I: Network virtualization

Speakers: Nick Feamster, Jon Turner, Vincent Chan and Sergey Gorinsky

12-1:30 Lunch: Table discussion: Meet with an NSF program officer1:30-3 Technical program II: Services architectures

Speakers: Tilman Wolf, Dan Duchamp, Paul Francis3-4:00 Working break4:00-5:00 Envisioning the future—a plenary session interactive

exercise5:00-6:00 Reception6:00 Dinner: Table discussion: TBD

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Agenda—November 9, 2006• 8:30-9:30 Discussion groups: Size and makeup of the

FIND group; student participation• 9:30-10:00 Plenary session: summary of discussion

groups, future meetings• 10-10:30 Break• 10:30-12:00 Technical program III: Sensor networks and

future architecture• Speakers: Mark Hansen, Deborah Estrin, Mani,

Srivastava, Jeffrey Burke, • John Heideman, Junghoo Cho, Srini Shesan• 12-1:30 Lunch• 1:30-2:30 Discussion groups: Review of technical

sessions: requirements for future nets• 2:30-3:00 Plenary discussion: summary of discussion

groups.• 3:00 Adjourn

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Stages of Research2008 and Later

Coordinated effort to assemble overarching coherent architectures

• Multiple PI meetings to formulate architectures

– FIND awardees

– But also other “architectural” researchers e.g. funded by NeTS,

CyberTrust, DARPA, industry, internationally funded researchers, etc.

• Small number of architectures developed

Architectures as they emerge will be made operational and tested

– Simulation

– Emulation

– Run on a large-scale GENI facility

• Experiment with new architectures at scale