The purpose is to improve the operational or functional capabilities of the Internet and related collateral efforts for the benefit of the research and education community. The Internet Technologies activity supports the NGI initiative within the Advanced Networking Infrastructure Program. The issues facing networking vary widely in complexity and scale, a fact which is expected to be reflected in proposed projects. While the full range is eligible for consideration, all proposals must provide a convincing rationale and justification for the level of effort proposed.
Cost sharing is encouraged.
This is particularly important for large scale projects. In addition to these generic review criteria, additional criteria in the evaluation process for this announcement will be used in the evaluation of the proposal. A summary rating and accompanying narrative will be completed and signed by each reviewer. In all cases, reviews are treated as confidential documents. Verbatim copies of reviews, excluding the names of the reviewers, are mailed to the investigator by the Program Manager.