Workshop on Transparency, Accountability and User Control for a Responsible Internet (TAURIN 2023)

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. 

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