NeTS: Find: Collaborative Research: Relationship-Oriented Networking

合作研究：以关系为导向的网络社会是建立在关系的概念之上的一个关键方面。无论是个人的还是机构的。事实上，人际关系是如此根深蒂固？她们作为基本社会结构的作用经常被认为是理所当然的，没有被明确考虑。而在一个强大的？在日常生活中，在通信网络的电子领域中建立关系使人们失去了许多建立、维持和识别关系的传统工具。一个人不能用视觉或听觉线索来证实他们是在和朋友说话。相反，屏幕上的文字信息很可能来自他们认识的人或冒名顶替者。造成这种情况的一个关键原因是，网络通常基于资源名称的身份概念，而不是诸如密码学所提供的更强大的概念。这个项目的首要目标是考虑如何设计未来的网络架构，首先广泛地结合基于密码学的身份，然后使用这些强身份在网络中建立作为一等公民的关系。这承诺在系统中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中建立可信任的关系，可以像在数字通信领域之外的关系一样被查看和利用。这个项目将考虑利用各种任务的关系，比如访问控制、服务验证和命名。因此，它从简单的面向事务的网络转变为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。智力优势：计算机网络是为服务人类而设计的，但很少有研究利用人们在现实世界中的自然行为和工作方式。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中工作方式相似的关系，让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。要考虑的一个特别的争论空间是，暴露关系的好处与这样做在隐私方面的成本之间的比较。所设计的体系结构不会强制要求如何解决争执，而是允许用户和机构对这些问题进行推理，并制定他们认为合适的策略。通过使网络对身份和关系都有深刻的理解，该项目将使大量的服务、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。更广泛的影响：除了建立一个值得信赖的未来互联网的目标之外，这个项目还将产生许多更广泛的影响。就网络经济而言，它将做出两个贡献：(i)增加对整个系统安全性的信心，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为命名结构来选择服务提供商。此外，通过将加密身份作为网络设计的基础，该项目将使加密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？通过方便地加密网络流量来保护隐私。最后，这项研究将对教育产生影响，为本科生和研究生提供更多的机会，并通过我们所属的既定基金会指导初中生和高中生。

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.