CSE Faculty-Affiliate and alumna Kimberly Claffy (MS ‘91, PhD ‘94) is a PI on a new $1.2 million NSF grant to measure and quantify the changing nature of the Internet’s topology and what it means for the Internet’s future in terms of design, operations, scientific study and public policy. “From both the scientific and policy perspectives, much of the Internet’s evolving ecosystem is largely uncharted territory,” said Claffy, director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). ““As the Internet expands to satisfy the demands and expectations of an ever-increasing percentage of the world's population, profound changes are occurring at myriad levels: from interconnection structure and traffic dynamics to creating new economic and political issues that need to be addressed. These changes also pose broader challenges for technology investment and future network design, so a key goal of this project is to establish a baseline against which to evaluate future Internet architecture designs and implementations.” The project, joint with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is called e”NeTS: Large: Collaborative Research: Mapping Interconnection in the Internet: Colocation, Connectivity and Congestion.”