''This page contains pointers to good background reading for those interested in the Control Framework.''

 '''''A Minimal Definition of GENI's Narrow Waist'''''::
   An abridged version of the Architecture document, focusing on the definition of key abstractions, but sacrificing completeness. If you have time for only the Reader's Digest version, this is the document to read. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~llp/arch_abridged.pdf

 '''''GENI Architectrue Redeux'''''::
  June 2007. An update to the GENI Architecture document (GDD-06-11). If you are going to read only one document, this is probably it. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~llp/arch_redeux_v0.3.pdf 

 '''''GENI Facility Construction Plan'''''::
  GDD-07-45, April 2007. Describes an open source inspired model for building GENI, which helps motivate some of the architectural design decisions.  http://www.geni.net/GDD/GDD-07-45.pdf

 '''''RSpec'''''::
  Expands upon the Resource Specification (rspec) section of the full Architecture document.  http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~llp/rspec-draft-v0.4.pdf

 '''''Using the Component and Aggregate Abstractions in the GENI Architecture'''''::
  GDD-06-42, John Wroclawski, Facility Architecture Working Group, December 2006.  Contains a nice discussion of aggregates.  http://www.geni.net/GDD/GDD-06-42.pdf