Particularly, I can see research getting funded that explores counter-measures to the kinds of attacks discussed in: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2014/papers/hotnets-XIII-final80.pdf (1) http://www.isif.asia/researchgrant --- "open to all relevant topics of interest around Internet operations, infrastructure and related protocols, such as Network measurement and analysis; IPv6; BGP routing; Network security and Peering and interconnection." --- I can see someone from Tor Metrics doing well here. (2) http://isif.asia/ISOC_CybersecGrant --- Research on improving DNSSEC --- Research/greater deployment of secure routing. -V