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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:07:18 -0700
From: Rohit Khare
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Call for Participation TWIST'99
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The Workshop on Internet-scale Software Technologies -- 1999
Internet-Scale Namespaces
August 19-20, 1999 Irvine, California, USA
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http://www.ics.uci.edu/twist99/
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Internet-scale namespace management has emerged as a crucial issue in scaling software and network technologies to the numbers of people, devices, and agents online. Every namespace, from MIME type to stock symbol to domain name, represents a bundle of political, economic, social, and technical decisions. Many namespaces are bumping into new limits to growth: human-friendly names for Web resources, the domain name service, public key infrastructures (PKI), and ad-hoc federation of embedded computers a la Jini, to name four. These are not merely limits of sheer massiveness: the latest generation of commercial directory servers claim to vend hundreds of millions of names with ease, as do planetary-scale Web search engines.
We invite you and your colleagues to join us for The Workshop on Internet-scale Software Technologies (TWIST'99), which this year focuses on Internet-Scale Namespaces. This engaging two-day workshop is being convened with the following goals in mind:
Survey the diversity of namespaces already in use at Internet scale. Identify the uniquely Internet-Scale issues of namespace management, beyond sheer size scaling to include political, economic, and technological limits. Discuss namespace management in the context of application domains, with a particular emphasis on electronic commerce. Debate potential approaches for building self-organizing solutions for domain naming, hierarchical public key infrastructure, resource discovery, and device federation.
New challenges specific to Internet scale include:
Control: who defines and manages the namespace. Mobility: how rapidly a name to address binding can change. Locality: the same name having different meaning for different speakers depending on geographic, or other context. Interoperability: standard resolution protocols, and their mechanisms for generating network effects.
Confirmed speakers at the workshop are:
Mark Day -- Namespaces for Internet-scale Event Notification Lotus Development Carl Ellison -- Namespaces in the Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) Security Architect, Intel Labs (Portland) Roy Fielding -- Uniform Resource Identifiers University of California, Irvine Michael Gorlick -- Location Awareness The Aerospace Corporation Carl Hewitt -- Like Politics, All Naming is Local Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rohit Khare -- Brief Survey of Internet-scale Namespaces University of California, Irvine Larry Masinter -- A Common Name Resolution Protocol for the Web Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Clifford Neuman -- Event Namespaces within Prospero Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI)
TWIST'99 is being held on the campus of the University of California,
Irvine. For the advance program, lodging information, and
instructions on how to register, please consult the TWIST'99 web page,
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TWIST'99 is sponsored by the Irvine Research Unit in Software, http://www.ics.uci.edu/IRUS/
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