== ''***GENI PLANNING GROUP DOCUMENTS ARE NO LONGER CURRENT. See GpoDoc and the GENI project pages for up-to-date documents and specifications.***'' == == GENI Planning Group 2005 - 2007 == '''May 21, 2007'''[[BR]] NSF has funded BBN Technologies to establish GENI project office (GPO). See the [wiki:TestingGround/20070521PressRelease BBN press release] for more information. '''April 25, 2007'''[[BR]] A draft of the Project Execution Plan (Conceptual Design) is now available. It includes a set of documents: a Research Plan (why we are building GENI), a Facility Design (what GENI is), a Requirements Document (link between research and facility), and the Construction Plan (how GENI is to be built). This set updates [attachment:GDD-06-07.pdf January 2006 Project Execution Plan.] '''November 3, 2006'''[[BR]] Additional information about the planning process are now available: (1) new and updated Design Documents (including multiple views), (2) a planning schedule for the next several months, and (3) additional presentations that summarize on-going efforts to flesh out the facility definition. '''September 18, 2006'''[[BR]] NSF has funded the Computing Research Association (CRA) to create the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). See the [http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/archives/000526.html CRA press release] for more information. '''September 15, 2006'''[[BR]] Set of draft GENI Design Documents (GDDs) go online. '''July 13-14, 2006'''[[BR]] CRA organizes San Francisco [http://www.cra.org/nsf.geni/san.francisco.html NSF Town Hall Meeting] on GENI. '''June 25, 2006'''[[BR]] CRA organizes Snowbird [http://www.cra.org/nsf.geni/snowbird.html NSF Town Hall Meeting] on GENI. '''June 22, 2006'''[[BR]] [wiki:TestingGround/OldGENIDesignDocuments GENI Design Document] (GDD) series now available. '''June 15, 2006'''[[BR]] Planning Group posts update of GENI Design Principles document. Now available as [attachment:GDD-06-08.pdf August 2006 GENI Design Principles]. '''May 5-6, 2006'''[[BR]] CRA organizes Chicago [http://www.cra.org/nsf.geni/chicago.html NSF Town Hall Meeting] on GENI. '''April 29, 2006'''[[BR]] Planning Group posts [attachment:design_principles.pdf draft GENI Design Principles] for comment. '''March 10, 2006'''[[BR]] CRA organizes Washington D.C. [http://www.cra.org/nsf.geni/march10 NSF Town Hall Meeting] on GENI. '''February 7, 2006'''[[BR]] GENI changes its official name from "Global Environment for Network Investigations" to "Global Environment for Network Innovations." '''January 20, 2006'''[[BR]] A [attachment:GDD-06-07.pdf snapshot of GENI's design] is now available. This snaphot was prepared by the GENI planning group, and will be refined in coming months in response to community feedback. '''December 19, 2005'''[[BR]] MIT Technology Review features GENI in their December/January Issue. A [http://www.technologyreview.com/infotech/wtr_16051,258,p1.html three-part feature] and a [http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Networks/wtr_16077,258,p1.html supplemental interview] are available online. PRI's [http://www.theworld.org/ The World] program also aired a segment on the story, archived here in [attachment:20051219-WNYC-830AM.wma WMA] and [attachment:20051219-WNYC-830AM.ogg OGG] formats. '''December 5, 2005'''[[BR]] NSF informational meeting on the NeTS Program's [http://find.isi.edu/ Future Internet Design (FIND)] Initiative. '''August 25, 2005'''[[BR]] NSF announces the [http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501055&org=NSF GENI Initiative] at SIGCOMM.