Report of “US/EU Workshop on Key Issues and Grand Challenges in Optical Networking” Co-Sponsors : US: National Science Foundation (NSF) EU: ePHOTON/One, COST Location : European Commission Premises Albert Borschette building, 36 Rue Froissart Brussels, Belgium Workshop Co-Chairs : Biswanath Mukherjee, mukherje@cs.ucdavis.edu Fabio Neri, fabio.neri@tlc.polito.it Workshop Website : http://networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/~mukherje/US-EU-wksp-June05.html June 2006 Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this report are those of the workshop participants, and do not necessarily reflect the views of their institutions or the workshop co- sponsors. NSF’s co-sponsorship of this workshop was provided under Grant No. CNS-05-34685.