- European Future Internet Portal: serves as the common space for European activities and discussions on the future of the Internet. This portal provides an overview on European research projects in the Future Internet area as well as regularly updated information on important events and other news.
- Future Internet Architecture (FIArch): the main objective of Future Internet Architecture (FIArch) group activity is to define a common set of architectural design principles and a reference architecture of the Future Internet that can guide and unify key technology developments in the future. The scope is a FI Reference Architecture developed in a holistic way by incorporating design principles and by integrating key viewpoints. It will focus on core functionality of a Future Internet, including protocols, interfaces, invariants, interoperability and generic enablers. The first outcome of the FIArch group covers the fundamental limitations of the current Internet and the main Design Objectives of the Future Internet. It focuses on a few key architectural issues and fundamental limitations, shared and agreed by a considerable representation and coverage of FI stakeholders, including FIA projects. The FIArch Fundamental Limitations white paper may be downloaded from the following link. The second outcome aims to describe the FI Design Principles. "Design principles" defines agreed structural & behavioural rules on how a designer/an architect can best structure the various architectural components and describe the fundamental and time invariant laws underlying the working of an engineered artifact.
- Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI): an NSF-funded research facility designed to allow experiments on a wide variety of problems in communications, networking, distributed systems, cyber-security, and networked services and applications. GENI enables researchers to experiment radically new network designs and to build their own new versions of the "net" or to study the "net" in ways that are not possible today. GENI is not a replacement for the Internet (or any other communications technology). The purpose of GENI is to give researchers the opportunity to experiment at a large scale a wide range of research ideas in data communications and distributed systems with real user populations.
