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, at
<http://www.ics.uci.edu/twist99/>.
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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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