IMC 2025 PRIME Workshop
Call for submissions
This year, we are holding a one-day Workshop of Policy-Relevant Internet Measurements and Experimentation (PRIME), co-located with IMC 2025. The ACM IMC 2025 PRIME Workshop provides a platform for open discussions to build a community of researchers interested in exploring topics and methodologies to inform computer networking and Internet policy.
Context. As society increasingly relies on computer networks and the Internet as critical infrastructure, policymakers are increasingly involved in ensuring safe, reliable, and equitable access to these resources. However, policymakers today generally lack the required information needed to make good policy decisions—often due to an absence of policy-relevant Internet and networking studies and measurements. Bridging the gap between computer networks research and policy can profoundly increase the impact of research results as well as inspire crucial and fruitful new lines of inquiry.
This workshop seeks to build a community of researchers interested in exploring topics and methodologies to inform computer networking and Internet policies. We take a broad view of what work can inform policy, independent of recent policy initiatives relevant to computer networks. This includes any work or results with social, economic, security, health, or consumer protection implications, and that is relevant for public policy (e.g., legislation, rulemaking, etc).
Call for submissions. We invite submissions to the second Workshop on Policy-Relevant Internet Measurement and Experimentation (PRIME); a subset of submissions will be invited as presentations to seed discussions with other workshop participants. A submission is not required to attend the workshop, but a submission is required to present at the workshop.
Submissions can be preliminary work-in-progress or previously published papers, including position papers and extended abstracts. Papers should be in two-column 10pt ACM format and of up to 2 pages (plus unlimited pages for references). Authors can optionally link a longer version of work that relates to the submission, it will not however, be considered during the review process. Submissions in the form of a 1,000 word text abstract are also considered.
Submissions entered by September 5th will get full consideration for presentation slots. If slots remain after the initial deadline, we will continue to accept submissions as presentations on a rolling basis until all slots are filled. Authors are encouraged to submit by the deadline, or as early as possible.
PRIME is a non-archival venue, so submissions of previously published work are allowed. Additionally, your submissions regarding early work will not appear on our website—just the title of the talk and abstract for each accepted submission will be.
Topics. Example topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Access (broadband, equity, quality, availability),
- Openness, market fairness, net neutrality, free speech,
- Security (routing, DNS, other areas),
- Privacy,
- Network Mapping,
- Platforms,
- Protocols and their impact on networks (transport, applications, adoption and evolution of them),
- Measurement of compliance with policies, or effectiveness of enacted policies,
- Any other networking topics that can inform policy/law.
Submission Format
For guidelines regarding ethics, use of generative AI, and paper formatting—please see the main conference’s Detailed Submission Instructions page with the following added requirement:
Submissions are limited to two pages. Note that the two-page limit includes ALL figures, tables, and references.
The review process is Single blind and therefore reviewers will see the names of all authors.
Important Dates
| Paper submission deadline | September 5, 2025 and rolling afterwards until capacity. |
| First Round Notification | September 12, 2025 |
| Workshop Date | Oct 27, 2025 |
Submission Site
Please submit your paper at https://imc25-prime.hotcrp.com/.
For any further questions or concerns, please contact the PRIME Workshop TPC chairs:
- Cecilia Testart (Georgia Tech)
- David Choffnes (Northeastern University)
Program
| Submissions | Authors | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9-9:15 | Welcome | ||
| 9:15-10:15 | Keynote | ||
| 10:30-11 | Break | ||
| 11-noon | Session 1 | Security | |
| INFERMAL: Inferential Analysis of Maliciously Registered Domains | Yevheniya Nosyk (KOR Labs) , Maciej Korczyński (Université Grenoble Alpes / KOR Labs) , Carlos Gañán (ICANN), Sourena Maroofi (KOR Labs), Jan Bayer (KOR Labs) , Zul Odgerel (Université Grenoble Alpes / KOR Labs) , Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob (ICANN), Andrzej Duda (Université Grenoble Alpes / KOR Labs) | ||
| Is Protective DNS Blocking the Wild West? | David Plonka (WiscNet), Branden Palacio (Marquette University), Debbie Perouli (Marquette University) | ||
| When Routes Speak Politics: Measuring the Impact of Geopolitical Tensions on the Internet | Antonis Chatzivasiliou (University of Crete & ISOC), Georgios Smaragdakis (Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)), Kevin Vermeulen (LIX, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique) , Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University) , Amreesh Phokeer (Internet Society) , Xenofontas Dimitropoulos | ||
| Expanding Access, Exposing Risk: A Study of Starlink Hosts | Omar Elamri (UCLA), Isaac-Neil Zanoria (UCLA), Jacob Zhi (UCLA), Ben Du (UCLA), Liz Izhikevich (UCLA) | ||
| noon-1pm | |||
| 1-2:30 | Session 2 | Broadband | |
| Mapping the Gap: Broadband Access in the U.S. | Varshika Srinivasavaradhan, Jiayi Liu , Elizabeth Belding [University of California Santa Barbara] | ||
| The Policy Implications of Early Termination in Internet Speed Testing | Haarika Manda (University of California, Santa Barbara), Manshi Sagar (IIT Delhi) , Yogesh (IIT Delhi), Kartikay Singh (IIT Delhi), Cindy Zhao (University of California, Santa Barbara), Tarun Mangla (IIT Delhi), Phillipa Gill (Google), Elizabeth Belding (UC Santa Barbara), Arpit Gupta (UCSB) | ||
| Enabling Data-Driven Policymaking using Broadband-Plan Querying Tool (BQT+) | Laasya Koduru (University of California, Santa Barbara), Sylee Beltiukov (University of California, Santa Barbara), Jaber Daneshamooz (University of California, Santa Barbara), Eugene Vuong (California State University, East Bay), Arpit Gupta (University of California, Santa Barbara), Elizabeth Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara), Tejas Narechania (University of California, Berkeley) | ||
| CellWatch: Mobile Broadband Measurement Tool Suite Designed with and for Communities | Morgan Vigil-Hayes (Michigan State University), Beatriz Palacios Abad (University of New Mexico), Elizabeth Belding (UC Santa Barbara), Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech) | ||
| A First Look at Starlink’s Impact on Internet Equity | Isabel Suizo (Carnegie Mellon University), David Andersen (Carnegie Mellon University), Theophilus A. Benson (Carnegie Mellon University), Justine Sherry (Carnegie Mellon University) | ||
| Leveraging Large Language Models to Contextualize Network Measurements | Sylee Beltiukov (University of California, Santa Barbara), Karthik Bhattaram (University of California, Santa Barbara), Evania Cheng (University of California, Santa Barbara), Vinod Kanigicherla (University of California, Santa Barbara), Akul Singh (University of California, Santa Barbara), Natchanon Thampiratwong (University of California, Santa Barbara), Arpit Gupta (University of California, Santa Barbara) | ||
| 2:30-3 | Break | ||
| 3-4:30 | Session 3 | Interpret | |
| Canary in the Wires: Research Testbeds as Policy Labs | Nik Sultana (Illinois Institute of Technology) | ||
| What does that really tell us? Interpreting numbers in sustainability reports | Romain Jacob (ETH Zurich) | ||
| NetBreakout: A Scalable Methodology for Mapping Mobile Network Egress Topology | Syed Tauhidun Nabi (Virginia Tech), Shaddi Hasan (Virginia Tech) | ||
| Privacy | |||
| Measured Approaches to IPv6 Address Anonymization and Identity Association | David Plonka (WiscNet), Arthur Berger (Akamai / MIT) | ||
| Intelligence Without Cooperation: Mass Surveillance and Indiscriminate Violence | Harry Oppenheimer (Georgia Institute of Technology) | ||
| Papers, Please: A First Look at Age Verification on the Web | Shreyas Minocha (Georgia Institute of Technology), Isaac Sheridan (Georgia Institute of Technology), Harry Oppenheimer (Georgia Institute of Technology), Paul Pearce (Georgia Institute of Technology), Michael Specter (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
Program Committee
TBD
Attendance
We welcome all community members who identify either as technologists working on Internet- and networking-related research or policy-focused individuals. To help us organize the workshop, if you are interested in attending, please fill in this form.
Examples of relevant areas include:
- Researchers currently doing (or planning to do) policy-relevant Internet measurement or networking research (e.g., many IMC attendees)
- Technologists (i.e., those who are generally in CS and engineering fields)
- Policy experts (e.g., faculty in relevant disciplines (including but not limited to policy, law and CS), members of relevant think tanks)
- Current and former FCC or FTC staffers, relevant staff in other US agencies (leveraging US location)
- Relevant industry staff (e.g., members of policy units within tech companies)
Contact
For any questions about the workshop, contact Cecilia Testart (ctestart at gatech dot edu) and David Choffnes (choffnes at ccs dot neu dot edu).