ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Technologies, Applications, and Uses of a Responsible Internet (TAURIN 2021)

Call for Papers

Problem Addressed in This Workshop

In our modern societies, digital services support the needs and wellbeing of individuals and help maintain a thriving economy. However, there are growing concerns world-wide over the fact that very few economically powerful players have a disproportionate control over the key technologies and networks used to provide these services. The result is a widely observed decline in “digital sovereignty” in many societies and regions of the globe. This is particularly strongly felt in the context of emerging safety-critical services such as smart energy grids, self-organizing supply chains, or networked health services.

A proposed solution to tackle this decline in digital sovereignty is the notion of a Responsible Internet [1]. A Responsible Internet is to today’s Internet what Responsible AI is to today’s Artificial Intelligence: a set of design principles for the Internet’s network infrastructure that allow all stakeholders to rely on the Internet’s operation with a significantly higher degree of confidence and trust than is possible today.

A Responsible Internet accomplishes this by extending the original set of design goals of the Internet protocol suite with three new ones: controllability, accountability, and transparency. Controllability is the principle that allows relying parties to choose the chain of operators that they want to entrust with processing and forwarding their data communication. Accountability and transparency are design principles to provide verifiable insights into the Internet’s structure and operation to allow relying parties to make decisions on how they want their data flows to be handled.

Workshop Goals and Format

This 1st Workshop on Technology, Applications, and Uses of a Responsible Internet (TAURIN) will provide a forum to researchers to discuss ideas, concepts, technologies and designs that may lead us towards a Responsible Internet. The objective of this workshop is to advance the concept of a Responsible Internet and to start building a community around it. We therefore encourage work-in-progress papers that benefit from the interactive nature of TAURIN. Although the focus of TAURIN is technical, we also invite submissions that complement technical results by considering societal dimensions (e.g., business or governance implications).

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Novel network designs that focus on controllability, accountability, or transparency
• Methodologies to make transparency and accountability a reality
• Applications that benefit from controllability, accountability, or transparency
• Metrics and measurements to assess the present level of controllability, accountability, or transparency in networks
• Mechanisms to balance transparency and security in network implementations
• Interoperability of measurement systems
• Dynamic path composition using path segments and VNFs
• Data and control plane-programmable inter-domain networks

Further Reading

More on the design goals of a responsible Internet, its advantages for different types of users, and a possible way to realize these goals can be found in this paper:

Submission Instructions

Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another venue or a journal. We particularly solicit work-in-progress papers that benefit from the interactive nature of TAURIN. Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, including all figures, tables, and appendices (but not counting references) in two-column 10pt ACM format. Papers must include author names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop.

Please submit your paper via https://taurin21.hotcrp.com.

Publication

Papers accepted by the workshop will be published in the conference proceedings published by ACM SIGCOMM. Extended versions of accepted papers may be considered for fast-tracking to a special issue of the Journal of Network and Systems Management (confirmed). The decision will depend on the quality of the paper and its potential to spark lively discussion at TAURIN 2021. The final decision will be made by the co-chairs after the workshop.

Important Dates

• May 21, 2021

  Submission deadline

• June 21, 2021

  Acceptance notification

• July 2, 2021

  Camera-ready deadline

• August 23 or 27, 2021

  Workshop day

Committees

• Organizing Committee

• Cristian Hesselman

  SIDN Labs and University of Twente

• Paola Grosso

  University of Amsterdam

• Ralph Holz

  University of Twente

• Janet Hui Xue

  Universität Duisburg-Essen and Wolfson College

• Abhishta Abhishta

  University of Twente

• Diego Perino

  Telefonica

• Anne Remke

  University of Münster

• Workshop Co-Chairs

• Ralph Holz

  University of Twente

• Abhishta Abhishta

  University of Twente

• Program Committee

• Alberto Dainotti

  CAIDA

• Chrysa Papagianni

  University of Amsterdam

• Cristian Hesselman

  SIDN Labs and University of Twente

• Eelco Vriezekolk

  Dutch Telecoms Regulator

• Elmer Lastdrager

  SIDN Labs

• Georgios Smaragdakis

  TU Berlin

• Giovane Moura

  SIDN Labs

• Ilya Baldin

  RENCI

• Joel Sommers

  Colgate University

• Joeri de Ruiter

  SIDN Labs

• Jonghoon Kwon

  ETH Zürich

• Justyna Chromic

  Applied Risk

• Kyle Schomp

  Akamai

• Lexi Brent

  Google

• Maciej Korczynski

  Grenoble Institute of Technology

• Marian Kiran

  ESnet

• Matteo Varvello

  Bell Labs, Nokia

• Mattijs Jonker

  University of Twente

• Nathan Evans

  University of Denver

• Nicolas Kourtellis

  Telefonica

• Nikolaos Laoutaris

  IMDEA

• Oliver Gasser

  Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

• Pawel Szalachowski

  Google

• Poul Heegaard

  NTU Trondheim

• Ramin Sadre

  Université catholique de Louvain

• Rémi Badonnel

  University of Lorraine

• Yanja Dajsuren

  TU Eindhoven

• Yatish Kumar

  ESnet

• Zubair Shafiq

  UC Davis