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(_at_)iab(_dot_)org> 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(_at_)iab(_dot_)org <mailto:ename(_at_)iab(_dot_)org>. 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