SGER: Exploratory Research on End-User Opt-In and Broadening Research Engagement

在本次SGER中，BBN提议就两个未经验证的新颖想法开展初步工作。第一个想法侧重于如何在实验性网络基础设施上生成和支持现实交通流的挑战。其他网络基础设施通常依赖于人工流量生成方法或由实验人员自己组成的用户社区。但是，为了向实验人员提供大规模的真实流量，需要开发新的方法和机制。如果这样的机制能够发展起来，真正的交通在基础设施上进行，许多难题仍然存在。例如，到底需要多少种选择加入机制？基础设施足够吗？用户拉?（例如，应用程序、功能等）来吸引用户？可以给用户什么样的保证？在隐私、可靠性、安全性等方面？这些问题目前还无法回答，因为需要产生新的跨学科知识。本次SGER将允许开发一系列关于该主题的白皮书，包括1)鼓励选择加入的策略，2)可能推动用户选择加入的应用程序，3)用户选择加入的法律、道德、隐私和安全影响，4)潜在用户社区和访问方法，以及5)用户选择加入对商业部门的潜在好处。这些论文的作者将在工程会议上讨论和分享他们的发现，以及如何在实验网络基础设施中实现这些发现。第二个新颖的想法围绕着扩大对网络基础设施的研究参与和兴趣。重要的是，允许最广泛的科学家和工程师在网络和分布式系统之外的研究兴趣，在新颖的网络基础设施上进行他们自己的实验。其他可能感兴趣的学科包括社会科学、经济学、商业、法律、医学和替代能源等。如此广泛的范围有助于确保新的网络基础设施将广泛影响研究和教育。但是至关重要的是，他们对实验工作流程、数据访问和测量的需求现在就被生成，这样他们就可以影响基础设施的设计。如果不及早了解这些要求，一些科学领域可能会被排除在基础设施的使用之外。现在聘请专家来提出这些要求是至关重要的。该SGER将有助于为社会科学、法律、经济学和其他对网络科学和工程感兴趣的学科的网络研究人员产生基础设施需求，这将允许新的网络基础设施产生最广泛的影响。

In this SGER, BBN is proposing to engage in preliminary work on two untested and novel ideas. The first idea focuses on the challenge of how to generate and support realistic traffic flow on experimental, network infrastructure. Other network infrastructure typically relies on artificial traffic generation methods or user communities that are composed of the experimenters themselves. But, in order to provide experimenters with real traffic at scale, novel approaches and mechanisms need to be developed. If such mechanisms can be developed and real traffic is carried on the infrastructure, many hard problems remain. For example, how many and what types of opt-in mechanisms are actually needed? Will the infrastructure have enough ?user pull? (e.g., applications, capabilities, etc.) to attract users? What kind of guarantees can be given to the users ? in terms of privacy, reliability, security, etc? These questions can not currently be answered as new interdisciplinary knowledge needs to be generated. This SGER will allow for the development of a series of white papers on this topic, including 1) strategies to encourage opt-in, 2) applications that could drive user opt-in, 3) legal, ethical, privacy and security implications of user opt-in, 4) prospective user communities and methods for accessing them, and 5) the potential benefits of user opt-in for the commercial sector. The authors of these papers will meet at the Engineering Conferences to discuss and share their findings and how they might be implemented in an experimental network infrastructure.The second novel idea revolves around broadening research engagement and interest in network infrastructure. It is essential that the widest range of scientists and engineers with research interests beyond networking and distributed systems be allowed to carry out their own experiments on novel, network infrastructure. Other disciplines that might be interested include the social sciences, economics, business, law, medicine, and alternative energy, for example. Such a broad purview helps to ensure that new network infrastructure will widely influence research and education. But it is essential that their requirements for experimental workflow, data access and measurement, for example, be generated now so that they can influence infrastructure design. If those requirements are not known early, some areas of science may be locked out from use of the infrastructure. It is critical that experts be engaged now to generate those requirements. This SGER will help to generate infrastructure requirements for network researchers in the social sciences, law, economics, and other disciplines interested in network science and engineering, which will allow for new network infrastructure to have the broadest possible impacts.