CAREER: Values and Protocol Design

该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-确定硬连线技术偏见和预测紧急偏见。 从物理层到应用层的协议中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。使用大量关于新兴（例如，点播、网络、真实的实时交互服务）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的概念化。结果将是枚举流行协议中嵌入的值，以及这些拟议协议的适当替代方案。本研究将达到以下目标：1）通过在技术论坛上发表，特别是在服务质量技术方面，改善不知情的价值观设计问题; 2）通过在政策论坛上发表，防止通过未经审查的技术采用政策;和3）所考虑的方法的整合，包括评估其在各种情况下的功效，不仅在哈佛教书，而且在几所欧洲大学的课程中教书。

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.