NeTS: Find: Collaborative Research: Relationship-Oriented Networking

NeTS：查找：协作研究：面向关系的网络

• 批准号: 0831821
• 负责人: Michael Rabinovich
• 金额: $ 44.93万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 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 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0831821&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：协作研究：面向关系的网络社会赖以建立的关键方面之一是关系的概念——包括个人的和机构的关系。事实上，人际关系在人们的生活中根深蒂固，以至于他们作为基本社会结构的作用常常被认为是理所当然的，并且没有被明确考虑。虽然在日常生活中很强大，但在通信网络的电子领域内建立关系却使人们失去了许多用于建立、维持和识别关系的传统工具。人们无法使用视觉或听觉线索来验证他们正在与朋友交谈。相反，屏幕上的文字消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，网络通常将身份概念建立在资源名称的基础上，而不是基于密码学等更强的概念。该项目的首要目标是考虑如何设计未来的网络架构，首先普遍纳入基于加密的身份，然后使用这些强大的身份在网络中建立作为一等公民的关系。这有望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利用。该项目将考虑利用关系来执行各种任务，例如访问控制、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，转变为一个能够提供跨时间活动的一般链接并提供合法辅助服务的系统。 智力优点：计算机网络旨在为人们服务，但很少有研究如何利用它人们在现实世界中自然地表现和工作。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融入通信中，通过允许用户建立与现实世界中非常相似的关系，从而使用户对系统更有信心。这项工作将尊重建筑设计中自然发生的争斗空间。将要考虑的一个特殊的争论空间是暴露关系的好处与这样做的隐私成本之间的比较。设计的架构不会强制要求如何解决争执，而是允许用户和机构推理这些问题并制定他们认为合适的政策。通过使网络对身份和关系有深入的了解，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。 更广泛的影响：超越其构建值得信赖的目标未来的互联网，这个项目将会产生一些更广泛的影响。就网络经济而言，它将做出两项贡献：(i) 对整个系统安全性的信心增强将鼓励更广泛的使用和更广泛的应用程序，因为用户会感到在线安全；(ii) 其设想的新命名系统将允许用户根据优点而不是人为的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，该项目将使密码身份能够在网络架构中得到广泛使用。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，这项研究将以增加本科生和研究生的机会以及通过我们所属的既定基金会为初中生和高中生提供指导的形式产生教育影响。