DACS member Ralph Holz will give a keynote at this year’s Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA). At this highly selective conference in Internet measurement, Ralph will speak about Internet Transparency.
DACS member Ralph Holz has accepted an invitation to give a keynote at this year’s Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis conference (TMA), which will be he held in Dresden. Ralph is the PI of the CATRIN project, which has set itself the goal to lay the seeds for a Responsible Internet – an Internet that has the “CA properties”: Controllability, Accountability, and Transparency.
Despite some progress over the last 20 years, Internet security problems just keep cropping up. At the infrastructure level in particular - from hardware to critical services - it is sobering to realize that the incentives to invest in modern technologies too often clash with business or organizational considerations. Instead of continuing to rely on technologies that tend to be poorly received by the market, Ralph will provide arguments why it is more expedient to take a more indirect approach by introducing and fostering so-called "Internet Transparency". This idea is based on empirical evidence: if it is possible to determine by which operator, and why, a problem was caused, the incentives to invest in security and less flawed processes change across the board. The keynote will present a few results from previous work to motivate why the research community should focus on Internet Transparency, before moving on to its implementation in the Responsible Internet, which is largely based on global measurements and decentralized logging, flanked by economics and governance research and efforts.
Ralph is Full Professor for Networks and Network Security at the University of Münster in Germany and co-appointed at the University of Twente. His research interest is the empirical analysis of computer security, especially on the Internet.
