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ACM Conext-2024 Workshop on the Decentralization of the Internet
Our ACM CoNEXT-2024 workshop on the decentralization of the Internet on Monday, December 9th 2024 in LA has an exciting agenda – don't miss it! Check out the workshop homepage for up-to-date information.
09:00 Session 1: Keynotes
- Keynote by Cory Doctorow: DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE! How computer scientists can halt enshittification to make a new, good internet and condemn today's enshitternet to the scrapheap of history.
- Keynote by Michael Karanicolas: The Fediverse Papers: Constitutional, Governance, and Policy Questions for a New Paradigm of Networking
11:00 Session 2: Decentralized Systems
- Martin Kleppmann, et al.; Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media
- Benjamin Schichtholz et al.; ReP2P Matrix: Decentralized Relays to Improve Reliability and Performance of Peer-to-Peer Matrix
- Tianyuan Yu et al.; On Empowering End Users in Future Networking
14:00 Session 3: Technologies for Decentralization
- Huaixi Lu et al.; Atomicity and Abstraction for Multi-Blockchain Interactions
- David Guzman et. el; Communication Cost for Permissionless Distributed Consensus at Internet Scale
- Yekta Kocaogullar et al.; Towards a Decentralized Internet Namespace
15:00 Session 4: Decentralization of the Internet – Quo Vadis?
- Organizers: Lixia Zhang & Dirk Kutscher
- Interactive panel discussion with Cory Doctorow, Michael Karanicola, and paper authors
Invited Talk at Airbus Workshop on Networking Systems
On October 10th, 2024, I was invited to give a talk at the 2nd Airbus Workshop on Networking Systems. The workshop largely discussed connected aircraft scenarios and technologies and features talks on security and reliability, IoT sensor fusioning, and future space and 6G network architectures.
My talk was on Connected Aircraft – Network Architectures and Technologies, and discussed relevant scenarios from my perspective, such as passenger services and new aircraft management applications. For the technology discussion, I focused on large-scale low-latency multimedia communication over the expected heterogeneous and dynamic aircraft connectivity networks and discussed current and emerging technologies such as Media over QUIC, ICN.
I also introduced the recently established Low-Altitude Systems and Economy Research Institute at HKUST(GZ), a cross-disciplinary research institute for the low-altitude domain (with similar but not identical requirements) and some of our recent projects such as Named Data Microverse.
Dagstuhl Seminar on Greening Networking: Toward a Net Zero Internet
We (Alexander Clemm, Michael Welzl, Cedric Westphal, Noa Zilbermann, and I) organized a Dagstuhl seminar on Green Networking: Toward a Net Zero Internet.
Making Networks Greener
As climate change triggered by CO2 emissions dramatically impacts our environment and our everyday life, the Internet has proved a fertile ground for solutions, such as enabling teleworking or teleconferencing to reduce travel emissions. It is also a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, e.g. through its own significant power consumption. It is thus very important to make networks themselves "greener" and devise less carbon-intensive solutions while continuing to meet increasing network traffic demands and service requirements.
Computer scientists and engineers from world-leading universities and international companies, such as Ericsson, NEC, Netflix, Red Hat, and Telefonica came together in a Seminar on Green Networking (Toward a Net Zero Internet) at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, between September 29th and October 2nd, 2024. Organized by leading Internet researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), the University of Oxford, the University of Oslo and the University of California, Santa Cruz, they met to identify and prioritize the most impactful networking improvements to reduce carbon emission, define action items for a carbon-aware networking research agenda, and foster/facilitate research collaboration in order to reduce carbon emissions and to positively impact climate change.
Interactions between the Power Grid, Larger Systems, and the Network
In addition to pure networking issues, the seminar also analyzed the impact of larger systems that are built with Internet technologies, such as AI, multimedia streaming, and mobile communication networks. For example, the seminar discussed energy proportionality in networked systems, to allow systems to adapt their energy consumption to actual changes in utilization, so that savings can be achieved in idle times. Such a behavior would require better adaptiveness of applications and network protocols to cost information (such as carbon impact).
Moreover, networked systems can interact with the power grid in different ways, for example adapting energy consumption to current availability and cost of renewable energy, which can be helpful for joint planning of grid and network/networked-systems/cloud, achieving maximum efficiency/savings.
The seminar attendees are working with international research and standardization organizations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and ETSI, and it is expected that the seminar will make contributions to future research and standardization agendas in such organizations to bring the Internet to Net Zero emissions.
Organizers
- Alexander Clemm (Los Gatos, US)
- Dirk Kutscher (HKUST - Guangzhou, CN)
- Michael Welzl (University of Oslo, NO)
- Cedric Westphal (University of California, Santa Cruz, US)
- Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford, GB)
References
ACM Conext-2024 Workshop on the Decentralization of the Internet
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Recent years have witnessed the consolidation and centralization of the Internet applications, services, as well as the infrastructure. This centralization has economic aspects and factors as well as technical ones. The effects are often characterized as detrimental to the original goals of the Internet, such as permissionless innovation, as well as to society at large, due to the amount of (personal) data that is obtained and capitalized on by large platforms.
We are organizing a workshop at ACM CoNEXT-2024 to provide a forum for academic researchers to present and discuss on-going work on this topic and to create greater awareness in the larger community for this topic. The workshop would solicit work on specific topics including but not limited to:
- investigation of the root causes of Internet centralization, and articulation of the impacts of the market economy, architecture and protocol designs, as well as government regulations;
- measurement of the Internet centralization and the consequential societal impacts;
- characterization and assessment of observed Internet centralization;
- new research topics and technical solutions for decentralized system and application development;
- decentralized (cloud-independent) distributed system design;
- protocols and algorithms for decentralized distributed systems; and
- decentralized security and trust architectures and protocols for real-world Internet systems.
Submission Instructions
Please see the workshop homepage for details.