Given the change in date for this workshop, a number of potential
participants asked if the deadline could be extended. In order to
facilitate the broadest possible participation, the IAB has agreed.
Position papers will now be accepted until August 11, 2017. The program
committee will notify accepted participants as soon as possible after
that, in order to allow for travel arrangements to be made.
A copy of the solicitation and the announcement of the updated dates is
appended below for your reference.
regards,
Ted Hardie
for the IAB
When the IAB issued the initial call for participation for the
upcoming ENAME workshop, several folks pointed out conflicts for
potential attendees on the proposed dates. Among the conflicts were
meetings of the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (OARC),
ISO's technical committee on coded character sets (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2),
and the Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG). After
considering these conflicts and others for the times near the original
dates, the IAB has decided to change the dates to October 10th and
11th. Microsoft has kindly offered a venue in Vancouver, British
Columbia for these dates.
Note that the new dates immediately follow both Canadian Thanksgiving
and the U.S. Columbus Day holiday. While this represents a different
conflict problem, the IAB has agreed that the overlap with OARC,
ICNRG, SC2, and the related meetings were serious enough to accept the
trade-off. In order to minimize the impact of holiday travel to the
extent possible, we intend for the workshop to be a half-day on the
10th and a full day on the 11th.
The updated call for participation is below.
regards,
Ted Hardie
for the IAB
Call for Participation
IAB workshop on Explicit Internet Naming Systems
Internet namespaces relyon 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 toen...@iab.org <mailto:en...@iab.org>. Decisions on accepted
submissions will be made by August 11, 2017.
Proposed dates for the workshop are October 10th and 11th, 2017 and
the proposed location is Vancouver, British Columbia. Further
logistics will be provided to selected participants.
Ted Hardie
for the IAB