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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
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.
ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Emerging In-Network Computing Paradigms (ENCP)
Edge- and, more generally, in-network computing is receiving a lot attention in research and industry fora. The ability to decentralize computing, to achieve low latency communication to distributed application logic, and the potential for privacy-preserving analytics are just a few examples that motivate a new approach for looking at computing and networking.
What are the interesting research questions from a networking and distributed computing perspective? In-network computing can be conceived in many different ways – from active networking, data plane programmability, running virtualized functions, service chaining, to distributed computing. What abstractions do we need to program, optimize, and to manage such systems? What is the relationship to cloud networking?
These questions will be discussed at the first workshop on Emerging In-Network Computing (ENCP) that takes place at ACM CoNEXT-2019 on December 9th in Orlando.
We have received many interesting submission and were able to put together a really interesting program that covers both Network Programmability and In-Network Computing Architectures and Protocols. Check out the full program here.
Many thanks to my co-organizers Spyros Mastorakis and Abderrahmen Mtibaa, to our steering committee members Jon Crowcroft, Satyajayant (Jay) Misra, and Dave Oran, and to our great Technical Program Committee for putting this together.