CAREER: Values and Protocol Design

这项提案支持的研究涉及通信技术发展的所有阶段--从协议设计到实施--确定固有的技术偏见并预测新出现的偏见。协议从物理层到应用层的偏差假设是基于对协议的检查，包括相关的监管制度、经济分布和设计过程。使用关于新兴通信技术(例如，PointCast、网络、实时交互服务)和采用(例如，电话、广播、电子邮件、印刷)通信技术以及当前安全和隐私概念的大量数据来测试假设。结果将是，除了酌情替代这些拟议的议定书外，还将列举流行的议定书中包含的价值。这项研究将实现以下目标：1)通过在技术论坛上发表文章，特别是在服务质量技术方面，改善无意中设计价值观的问题；2)通过在政策论坛上的陈述，防止通过未经审查的技术通过政策；以及3)将所考虑的方法，包括评估其在不同情况下的有效性，不仅纳入哈佛大学的教学，而且纳入几所欧洲大学的课程。

The research supported by this proposal addresses all stages of communications technology development - from protocol design through implementation -- identifying hard-wired technical biases and predicting emergent biases. Hypotheses of biases in protocols from the physical to the applications layer are based on examinations of the protocols including the relevant regulatory regimes, economic distributions, and design processes. Hypotheses are tested using the extensive body of data on the use of emerging (e.g., pointcast, the web, real time interactive services) and adopted (e.g., telephony, broadcast, email, print) communications technologies as well as current conceptualizations of security and privacy. Enumeration of the values embedded in popular protocols, in addition to alternatives to these proposed protocols as appropriate, will be the result. This research will achieve the following goals: 1) amelioration of the problem of unwitting design of values by publication in technical forums, particularly in quality of service technologies; 2) prevention of the adoption of policies via unexamined technology by presentation in policy forums; and 3) integration of the methods considered, including evaluation of their efficacy in various situations, into teaching not only at Harvard but also in the curricula at several European universities.