Google's Cerf to advise NSF on Internet designs

By Aliya Sternstein

| October 5, 2006

The Internet pioneer is part of a panel that will look at possible architectures for a new and improved World Wide Web.

The Computing Research Association (CRA), at the request of the federal government, has formed an advisory board to help guide the design of a next-generation Internet.

The nonprofit group's involvement is part of a new National Science Foundation initiative, called the Global Environment for Networking Innovations. GENI will be an experimental facility that tests possible architectures for a new and improved World Wide Web.

CRA released Sept. 29the names of the leaders who will serve on an interim CRA GENI Community Advisory Board. They are:

Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory

Vint Cerf, Google

Susan Graham, University of California at Berkeley

Ron Johnson, University of Washington

Anita Jones, University of Virginia

Ed Lazowska, University of Washington

Peter Lee, Carnegie Mellon University

Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech

NSF recently funded CRA to create a consortium of computing experts that will consult NSF on future computing research and large-scale computing projects, including GENI. Under the three-year, $6 million agreement, CRA is responsible for appointing members to the GENI Community Advisory board, in addition to organizing the consortium.

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