Hello, beside other things, the proposed dates collide with DNS OARC 27 https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/27/ Petr Špaček @ CZ.NIC On 29.6.2017 21:48, Börje Ohlman wrote: > 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 are also planning an ICNRG interim meeting in Berlin September 29, > 2017, as a followup to the > conference, https://trac.ietf.org/trac/irtf/wiki/icnrg > We would therefore ask you to consider some alternative dates for this > IAB workshop. > > Best regards, > Dirk, Dave & Börje (IRTF ICNRG co-chairs) > >> On 22 Jun 2017, at 22:53, IAB Chair <iab-chair@xxxxxxx >> <mailto:iab-chair@xxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> 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 <mailto: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