| Dear All,
The topic of this IAB workshop is very closely related to the research area Information-centric Networking (ICN) which is addresses by the IRTF ICNRG. We therefore think it is very unfortunate that the proposed dates coincide with the major conference in the ICN field, ACM ICN-2017 which takes place in Berlin, Germany September 26-28, 2017, http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2017/We would therefore ask you to consider some alternative dates for this IAB workshop.
Best regards, Dirk, Dave & Börje (IRTF ICNRG co-chairs)
Call for
Participation IAB
workshop on Explicit Internet Naming Systems
Internet
namespaces rely on Internet connected systems
sharing a common set of assumptions on the scope, method of
resolution, and uniqueness of the names. That set of
assumption allowed the creation of URIs and other systems which
presumed that you could authoritatively identify a service using
an Internet name, a service port, and a set of
locally-significant path elements.
There are now
multiple challenges to maintaining that commonality of
understanding.
- Some naming systems wish to use
URIs to identify both a service and the method of resolution
used to map the name to a serving node. Because there is no
common facility for varying the resolution method in the URI
structure, those naming systems must either mint new URI
schemes for each resolution service or infer the resolution
method from a reserved name or pattern. Both methods are
currently difficult and costly, and the effort thus scales
poorly.
- Users’ intentions to refer to
specific names are now often expressed in voice input,
gestures, and other methods which must be interpreted before
being put into practice. The systems which carry on that
interpretation often infer which intent a user is expressing,
and thus what name is meant, by contextual elements. Those
systems are linked to existing systems who have no access to
that context and which may thus return results or create
security expectations for an unintended name.
- Unicode allows for both combining
characters and composed characters when local language
communities have different practices. When these do not have
a single normalization, context is required to determine which
to produce or assume in resolution. How can this context be
maintained in Internet systems?
While any of
these challenges could easily be the topic of a stand-alone
effort, this workshop seeks to explore whether there is a common
set of root problems in the explicitness of the resolution
context, heuristic derivation of intent, or language matching.
If so, it seeks to identify promising areas for the development
of new, more explicit naming systems for the Internet.
We
invite position papers on this topic to be submitted by July 28,
2017 to ename@xxxxxxx. Decisions on
accepted submissions will be made by August 11, 2017.
Proposed dates
for the workshop are September 28th and 29th, 2017 and the
proposed location is in the Pacific North West of North America.
Finalized logistics will be announced prior to the deadline for
submissions.
Ted Hardie for the IAB
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