Deadline extended: Call for Participation, Workshop on Internet naming systems

[IAB Chair <[e-mail]>]

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 [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>.    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
>
>