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The National Science Foundation is backing a major initiative that could lead to a completely new internet architecture, with built-in security measures and support for ubiquitous sensors and wireless communications devices, among other things.

The Global Environment for Networking Investigations, or GENI, will include a research grant program to fund new architectures and an experimental facility, which has not yet been planned in detail.

The little-noticed initiative was announced Wednesday at a meeting of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication in Philadelphia.

The GENI experimental facility will be "designed to explore new (network) architectures at scale," according to the SIGCOMM announcement.

GENI (pronounced "genie") will "enable the vision of pervasive computing and bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds by including mobile, wireless and sensor networks," the NSF announcement read.
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