The '''AKARI Architecture Design Project''' was a project for designing a new generation computer network architecture supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan. The name "AKARI" indicates "A small light in the dark pointing to the future"<ref name=pdf/> and it comes from the Japanese word ''Akari'', which means "a small light".<ref name=overview/> Launched in May 2006, the AKARI Project investigated technologies for new generation network by 2015, developing a network architecture and creating a network design based on that architecture. AKARI is also denoted as a Future Internet project.
The members of the AKARI Project came from NICT and some other universities or companies such as Tokyo University, Keio University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and NTT. In 2008, they produced a conceptual design book, which describes their philosophy to pursue an ideal solution by researching new network architectures from a clean slate without being impeded by existing constraints.<ref name=pdf>{{Cite web |title= AKARI Architecture Design Project for New Generation Network |date= October 2008 |url= http://akari-project.nict.go.jp/eng/concept-design/AKARI_fulltext_e_translated_version_1_1.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100414082316/http://akari-project.nict.go.jp/eng/concept-design/AKARI_fulltext_e_translated_version_1_1.pdf |archivedate= 14 April 2010 |accessdate= 12 June 2013 }} English translation</ref>
To some extent, the AKARI Project was similar to the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) facility of USA and many of the Seventh Framework Programmes (FP7) of EU such as the Future Internet Research and Experimentation.
Conferences were held in June 2007, January 2008, June 2008, and June 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|title=New Generation Network WORKSHOP |work=National Institute of Information and Communications Technology web site (Japan) |url=http://www.nict.go.jp/en/photonic_nw/archi/akari/workshop_e.html |accessdate=12 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071913/http://www.nict.go.jp/en/photonic_nw/archi/akari/workshop_e.html |archivedate=4 March 2016 }}</ref> The project updated a web site through 2011, and removed the site by 2013.<ref name=overview>{{Cite web |title= AKARI" Architecture Design Project for New Generation Network |url= http://akari-project.nict.go.jp/eng/overview.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130210083738/http://akari-project.nict.go.jp/eng/index2.htm |archivedate= 10 February 2013 |accessdate= 12 June 2013 }}</ref>
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