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; 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：查找：协作研究：以关系为导向的网络组织的关键方面是社会所在和始终建立的关键方面是关系的概念？既是个人和机构的概念。实际上，人际关系被根深蒂固地成为人们的生活，以至于他们作为基本社会结构的作用通常被认为是理所当然的，没有明确考虑。虽然在日常生活中有力，但在通信网络的电子领域内建立关系留下了许多传统工具，可以建立，维持和识别关系。一个人不能使用视觉或听觉提示来验证他们正在与朋友交谈。相反，仅仅是屏幕上单词的信息很容易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，由于网络通常会基于资源的名称而不是加密提供的一些更强的概念。该项目的整个目标是考虑如何设计未来的网络体系结构，以首先普遍地纳入基于加密的身份，然后使用这些强大的身份来建立关系作为网络中的一流公民。这有望为系统提供更好的总体可用性，安全性和信任。最终，这项工作将开发一个架构框架和组件，使用户和机构能够在数字通信中建立可信赖的关系，这些关系可以像数字通信领域之外的关系一样被查看和使用。该项目将考虑利用关系来完成各种任务，例如访问控制，服务验证和命名。因此，它使一个简单的面向交易的网络转移到了能够在时间上提供一般活动并揭示合法辅助服务的系统的系统。智能优点：计算机网络旨在为人们提供服务，但是在利用人们在现实世界中自然而然地表现和工作的研究很少。人们通常运作的一种方式是建立关系并建立对这些关系的信任。该项目将设计一个新的网络体系结构，该网络体系结构将这种直观的操作模式编织到通信中，从而通过允许用户建立像在现实世界中一样工作的关系来使用户对系统的信心。这项工作将尊重自然在建筑设计中发生的争吵空间。将要考虑的特定的争论空间是与这样做的隐私相比，暴露关系的好处是暴露关系的好处。设计的体系结构不会要求如何解决争吵，而是允许用户和机构对这些问题进行推理，并在他们认为合适的情况下设定政策。通过启用对身份和关系有着深入了解的网络，该项目将赋予大量服务，协议和应用程序作为其标准处理的一部分使用此信息的能力。BROADERIMPACT：超过其目标是建立可信赖的未来互联网，该项目将产生许多更广泛的影响。在网络经济学方面，它将做出两种贡献：（i）对整个系统安全性的增强信心将鼓励更广泛地使用，并且更广泛的应用程序将以用户感到安全，并且（ii）其设想的新命名系统将允许用户选择基于功绩而不是基于人工命名结构的服务提供者。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广泛使用。这将对用户有深远的好处？通过轻松加密网络流量来隐私。最后，这项研究将以增强本科生和研究生的机会的形式产生教育影响，并通过我们隶属的既定基础来指导中学和高中生。