3:00 Working Break:  Don’t run away or sleep. Find other investigators you want to talk to and explore joint interests and how your research interacts.

4:00 Envisioning the Future:  We want to poll the community to grow our collective view on what the future of 10 or 15 years will bring, in order to have a rich set of visions to drive our work, and in order to review and revise the list of requirements that were drafted for the NSF FIND solicitation.  We have planned a visioning exercise that involves debating assertions about the future. You will receive separate instructions for this session.

Day 2:

8:30 Discussion Groups:

We will break into smaller discussion groups in order to discuss two topics. We expect each group to divide their time between the two topics, and identify a reporter who can briefly summarize conclusions of the group at the following plenary session. All the groups are to discuss the same material—the goal of the smaller groups is to facilitate a more interactive and effective discussion.

Topic 1:  The size and makeup of the FIND group: There is good research, relevant to a future Internet, that does not happen to be funded by NSF this year. There is work funded in prior years, there is work funded by other agencies, there may be work going on in industry, and there is relevant work being done overseas.  We must consider how that work should be factored in to our process. It would seem reasonable to invite researchers with matching goals to come to the FIND meetings, but we have to think about how to deal with a meeting size that grows larger. At a minimum, there will be additional FIND awards in future years, which will grow the group. We would like the group to discuss this issue and offer advice.  On what basis should we expand the group, and how can we have useful and effective meetings as the group grows larger?

Topic 2: Student interaction: As part of FIND, we want to allow opportunities for students to get to know each other. We plan to have some sort of student meeting, and perhaps we should provide funding for some form of student exchange. We will ask your opinion on this issue. What should we organize (and what might NSF fund) that would help our students grow, and be a full part of this project?

9:30 Plenary Session:

In the plenary session, we will get a quick report from the discussion groups, and discuss the planning of future meetings—how to have them hosted, timing, etc.

10:30  Technical Program III

1:30  Discussion Groups-- Review of technical sessions: requirements for future nets

2:30  Plenary Session: report of group discussions:

Once again, we will break into smaller discussion groups. In this case, there will be one discussion group for each of the technical program sessions. We will ask the presenters of each of the technical sessions to gather with other interested FIND investigators, to provide an additional period for questions and discussion.  While the conversation can address any issues of interest to the group, we want to ask each group to discuss, for at least part of the time, a specific topic.

Topic: Requirements for a Future Global Network:  The FIND solicitation from NSF had a candidate list of requirements that a future network might address.  However, there is no reason to think that this list is complete or correct. One way to test this list is to look at the research that has actually been proposed, and see what problems the research is actually proposing to solve. We are interested in discovering requirements for a future network that are not mentioned in that preliminary list in the solicitation, or requirement on that list that perhaps do not matter. The idea of this discussion group is to explore with the speakers from the technical sessions what requirements their research addresses, and how to elaborate the list of requirements that (eventually) guides our progress toward coherent architectures.