NeTS: Find: Collaborative Research: Relationship-Oriented Networking

NeTS：查找：协作研究：面向关系的网络

• 批准号: 0831780
• 负责人: Mark Allman
• 金额: $ 45.07万
• 依托单位: International Computer Science Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0831780&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Find; Collaborative; Research; Relationship

Project SummaryNeTS: FIND: Collaborative Research: Relationship-Oriented NetworkingOne of the key aspects upon which societies are and have always been built is the notion of relationships?both personal and institutional. In fact, relationships are so ingrained into people?s lives that their role as a fundamental societal fabric is often taken for granted and not explicitly considered. While powerful in one?s everyday life, establishing relationships within the electronic realm of communication networks leaves one without many of the traditional tools for building, sustaining and recognizing relationships. One cannot use visual or auditory cues to verify that they are talking to a friend. Rather, a message that is just words on the screen could just as easily come from someone they know or an imposter. One key reason for this is because often networks have based the notion of identity on the name of a resource rather than some stronger notion such as cryptography provides. The over-arching goal of this project is to consider how to design future network architecture to first pervasively incorporate cryptographic-based identities and then use those strong identities to establish relationships as first-class citizens within networks. This promises to provide better overall usability, security and trust in the system. Ultimately, this work will develop an architectural framework and components that allow users and institutions to build trusted relationships within digital communications that can be viewed and utilized much like relationships outside of the digital communications realm. This project will consider leveraging relationships for a variety of tasks, such as access control, service validation, and naming. It thus moves past a simple transaction-oriented network to a system that is able to provide general linking of activity across time and exposing legitimate assistive services.Intellectual Merit: Computer networks were designed to serve people, but there has been little research in leveraging how people naturally behave and work in the real world. One way people generally operate is by establishing relationships and developing trust in those relationships. This project will design a new network architecture that weave this intuitive mode of operation into communications to give users more confidence in the system by allowing users to build relationships that work much like they do in the real world. This work will respect the tussle-spaces that will naturally occur within the architectural designs. A particular tussle-space that will be considered is that of the benefits of exposing relationships compared with the cost in terms of privacy of doing so. The designed architecture will not mandate how a tussle is resolved, but allow users and institutions to reason about these issues and set policy as they see fit. By enabling a network with a solid understanding of both identity and relationships, this project will empower an immense number of services, protocols and applications to use this information as part of their standard processing.Broader Impact: Over and above its goal of building a trustworthy future Internet, this project will have a number of broader impacts. In terms of networking economics it will make two contributions: (i) added confidence in the security of the overall system will encourage even more widespread use and a broader set of applications as users will feel safe online and (ii) its envisioned new naming system will allow users to choose service providers based on merit rather than on artificial naming constructs. In addition, by putting cryptographic identity as a foundation for the network design, this project will enable cryptographic identity to be widely used within the network architecture. This will have far-reaching benefits to users? privacy by enabling easy encryption of network traffic. Finally, this research will have educational impact in the form of enhanced opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as mentoring of middle- and high-school students through an established foundation with which we are affiliated.

项目摘要NeTS：Find：Collaborative Research：面向关系的网络社会是并一直建立在其上的一个关键方面是关系的概念--包括个人和机构关系。事实上，人际关系是如此根深蒂固？S的生活中，他们作为基本社会结构的角色往往被认为是理所当然的，而不是明确地考虑到。虽然在S的日常生活中很强大，但在通信网络的电子领域建立关系让人失去了许多建立、维持和识别关系的传统工具。人们不能使用视觉或听觉线索来验证他们是否在与朋友交谈。相反，一条只是屏幕上的文字的信息很容易来自他们认识的人或冒名顶替者。这样做的一个关键原因是，网络通常将身份的概念建立在资源的名称上，而不是像密码学所提供的那样，基于更强大的概念。这个项目的总体目标是考虑如何设计未来的网络体系结构，首先广泛地结合基于密码的身份，然后使用这些强身份在网络中建立作为一等公民的关系。这承诺为系统提供更好的整体可用性、安全性和信任度。最终，这项工作将开发一个架构框架和组件，允许用户和机构在数字通信内建立可信任的关系，这些关系可以像在数字通信领域之外的关系一样被查看和利用。该项目将考虑将关系用于各种任务，如访问控制、服务验证和命名。因此，它超越了一个简单的面向交易的网络，变成了一个能够提供跨时间活动的一般链接并公开合法辅助服务的系统。智慧的优点：计算机网络是为人们服务的，但在利用人们在现实世界中的自然行为和工作方式方面，几乎没有研究。人们通常的一种运作方式是建立关系，并在这些关系中建立信任。该项目将设计一种新的网络架构，将这种直观的操作模式编织到通信中，通过允许用户建立与现实世界非常相似的关系，使用户对系统更有信心。这项工作将尊重在建筑设计中自然出现的争斗空间。将被考虑的一个特殊的争斗空间是，与这样做的隐私成本相比，暴露关系的好处。设计的架构不会强制要求如何解决争执，但允许用户和机构对这些问题进行推理，并按照他们认为合适的方式制定政策。通过使网络能够充分理解身份和关系，该项目将使大量服务、协议和应用程序能够使用这些信息作为其标准处理的一部分。广泛影响：该项目将产生许多更广泛的影响，而不仅仅是建立一个值得信赖的未来互联网的目标。在网络经济方面，它将做出两个贡献：(I)增加对整个系统安全的信心将鼓励更广泛的使用和更广泛的应用程序，因为用户将在网上感到安全；(Ii)其设想的新命名系统将允许用户根据优点而不是人工命名结构来选择服务提供商。此外，通过将密码身份作为网络设计的基础，本项目将使密码身份在网络体系结构中得到广泛应用。这会给用户带来深远的好处吗？通过轻松加密网络流量来保护隐私。最后，这项研究将通过增加本科生和研究生的机会以及通过我们所属的已建立的基金会指导初中生的形式产生教育影响。