Re: Call for Papers: IAB Workshop on Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet (SEMI)

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Russ,

Are ADs invited to attend without a position paper, as usual?

Spencer

On Thursday, October 30, 2014, IAB Chair <[e-mail]> wrote:

> As a reminder, the deadline for the IAB workshop on Stack Evolution in a
> Middlebox Internet (SEMI) is coming up. Prospective participants are
> invited to submit short (i.e., about two pages) position papers outlining
> their views on one or more topics related to the scope of the workshop.
> Authors and titles for position papers must be registered by Friday,
> 31 October 2014, but the deadline for complete position papers has been
> extended by a week to Friday, 7 November 2014.
>
> On behalf of the IAB,
>   Russ Housley
>   IAB Chair
>
>
> On Sep 9, 2014, at 12:09 PM, IAB Chair wrote:
>
> > IAB Workshop on Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet (SEMI)
> > 26-27 January 2015 – ETH Zürich, Switzerland
> >
> > The Internet’s transport layer has ossified, squeezed between narrow
> > interfaces (from BSD sockets to pseudo-transport over HTTPS) and
> > increasing in-network modification of traffic by middleboxes that make
> > assumptions about the protocols running through them. This ossification
> > makes it difficult to innovate in the transport layer, through the
> > deployment of new protocols or the extension of existing ones. At the
> > same time, emerging applications require functionality that existing
> > protocols can provide only inefficiently, if at all.
> >
> > To begin to address this problem, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB),
> > within the scope of its IP Stack Evolution Program, is organizing a
> > workshop to discuss approaches to de-ossifying transport, especially
> > with respect to interactions with middleboxes and new methods for
> > implementing transport protocols. Recognizing that the end-to-end
> > principle has long been compromised, we start with the fundamental
> > question of matching paths through the Internet with certain
> > characteristics to application and transport requirements. Which paths
> > through the Internet are actually available to applications? Which
> > transports can be used over these paths? How can applications cooperate
> > with network elements to improve path establishment and discovery? Can
> > common transport functionality and standardization help application
> > developers to implement and deploy such approaches in today’s Internet?
> > Could cooperative approaches give us a way to rebalance the Internet
> > back toward its end-to-end roots?
> >
> > Topics
> >
> > For this workshop we would like to consider topics that speak to these
> > questions, including the following:
> >
> > - Development and deployment of transport-like features in application-
> >  layer protocols
> > - Methods for discovery of path characteristics and protocol
> >  availability along a path
> > - Methods for middlebox detection and characterization of middlebox
> >  behavior and functionality
> > - Methods for NAT and middlebox traversal in the establishment of end-
> >  to-end paths
> > - Mechanisms for cooperative path-endpoint signaling, and lessons
> >  learned from existing approaches
> > - Economic considerations and incentives for cooperation in middlebox
> >  deployment
> >
> > We will explicitly focus on approaches that are incrementally deployable
> > within the present Internet.
> >
> > The outcome of the workshop will be architectural and engineering
> > guidance on future work in the area, published as an IAB workshop
> > report, based on discussion of proposed approaches; future work will be
> > pursued within the IAB Stack Evolution Program. We will also explore
> > possible areas for standardization, e.g. new protocols that separate
> > signaling to and from on-path devices and common transport semantics
> > from the rest of the transport protocol; and for general guidance, e.g.
> > how transports as well as middleboxes can be designed and deployed to
> > achieve these goals.
> >
> > Submission Instructions
> >
> > Attendance at the workshop is by invitation. Prospective participants
> > are invited to submit short position papers outlining their views on one
> > or more topics related to the scope of the workshop. Position papers
> > will be published on the IAB website at:
> > http://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/semi/.
> >
> > Submissions accepted at:
> > https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semi2015
> >
> > Submission Deadline: 31 October 2014
> >
> > Notification Deadline: 17 November 2014
> >
> > Workshop Dates: 26-27 January 2015
> >
> > Sponsored by the Internet Architecture Board, the Internet Society, and
> > ETH Zürich. Mirja Kühlewind and Brian Trammell, General Chairs.
>
>