Workshop on Transparency, Accountability and User Control for a Responsible Internet (TAURIN 2023)
The TAURIN workshop focuses on security mechanisms for the Internet that will help to bring back aspects of “digital sovereignty” to our societies.
Call For Papers
Our goals and desires with TAURIN are as follows:
With TAURIN, we aim to create a community in security research that contributes to building services for a Responsible Internet that incorporates transparency, accountability, and user controllability. TAURIN is meant to move the community forward and help assess the feasibility, status, utility, and value of a Responsible Internet and gain new insights into how to design and implement it. A Responsible Internet will not only allow users to control how their data is protected but also provide them with visibility on the decisions made on behalf of them by third parties. Services targeted at enabling controllability, accountability and transparency will also enable users to better safeguard from network threats.
We aim at a workshop format with a high level of interaction between participants through discussions, sharing of fresh and inspiring ideas, and enabling participants with common interests to connect to set up new research projects.
In the last two years, the participation in TAURIN has been heavy on discussion sessions with significant participation from industry (especially cloud providers). Past workshops have been successful in providing a platform for academics and industry researchers working on Internet’s CAT properties. Considering this we invite both academic and practice papers to advance the concept of a Responsible Internet for the technical session. We encourage the submission of work-in-progress papers that will benefit from the interactive nature of TAURIN, as well as extended abstracts. Although the focus of TAURIN is technical, we also invite submissions that complement technical results by considering societal dimensions (e.g., business or governance implications).
TAURIN wants to bundle research efforts and move the security community forward. Hence, the workshop will have (at least) one session dedicated to peer-reviewed papers, another session for invited talks, and a round table discussion session.
While the focus of TAURIN is technical, we also invite submissions that complement technical results by considering societal dimensions (e.g., business or governance implications).
Topics of interest for the technical session include but are not limited to the following :
● Novel security designs for the Internet that focus on controllability, accountability, or transparency
● Methodologies to make transparency and accountability a reality in security aspects of the Internet
● Application designs whose security concepts are based on user controllability, accountability, or transparency, including related dimensions (inspection-ability, explainability, responsibility, usability, programmability, sustainability, etc.).
● Metrics and measurements to assess user controllability, accountability, or transparency in networks
● Mechanisms to balance transparency and privacy for network operators
● Policy specification languages and operationalization methods for transparency, accountability, and user control
● Economics of security designs that aim to improve transparency, accountability, and/or user control on the Internet.
If in doubt whether your contribution is a fit, please contact the workshop organizers.
Workshop Organizers :
General Chairs
Christian Hesselman, SIDN Labs
Ralph Holz, University of Münster
Program Chair
Abhishta Abhishta, University of Twente
Giovanni Sileno, University of Amsterdam
Web Chair
Siraj Anand, University of Twente
Program Committee:
Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Colgate University
Chrysa Papagianni, University of Amsterdam
Johannes Zirngibl, TU Munich
Mattijs Jonker, University of Twente
Qasim Lone, RIPE
Gustavo Luvizotto Cesar, University of Twente
Ralph Koning , SIDN Labs
Yasir Haq, University of Twente
Submission instructions
TAURIN invites original papers (written in English) that contribute to improvements in user controllability, accountability, and transparency as described above. We will accept extended abstracts (at most 2 pages excluding bibliography and no appendices allowed), short papers (at most 10 pages excluding bibliography and appendices allowed) and long papers (at most 15 pages excluding bibliography and appendices allowed) in the LNCS format.
Please submit your paper via easychair.
Schedule (On Sept 28,2023 in Hall 1.3)
9:30 - 9:35
Welcome & Introduction
Session 1
9:35 - 10:00
Pawel Ma ́ckowiak and Fernando Kuipers
Internet transparency through multi-party computation
10:00 - 10:25
Niousha Nazemi, Omid Tavallaie, Albert Zomaya, and Ralph Holz
DNS Dependencies as an Expression of the Digital Divide: the Example of Australia
10:25 - 10:35
Break
Session 2
10:35 - 11:00
Shyam Krishna Khadka, Ralph Holz, and Cristian Hesselman
Towards security transparency of Autonomous Systems on the Internet
11:00 - 11:25
Siraj Anand
Business Models for a Digitally Sovereign Internet (Invited)
11:25 - 11:35
Break
11:35 - 12:30
Keynote by Dr. A.B.J.M. Wijnhoven
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00
Round Table and Closing
Workshop deadlines:
Submission deadline: Jul 19, 2023
Notification to authors: Aug 07, 2023
Camera-ready versions: Aug 20, 2023
Workshop Date : Sep 28, 2023
Venue
The workshop will be held in will be hosted by The Hague Conference Centre, The Netherlands, in collaboration with the 28th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2023. More information on accommodation and venue available from the ESORICS 2023 website at https://esorics2023.org/attend/venue/
Please contact s.abhishta@utwente.nl in case of doubts and questions.