Sustainable Development of the Internet

Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Project Archive

Index

• IDnet Mesh
• Internet Politics
• Initial Framework on Sustainable Development of the Internet

IDnet Mesh

1. IDnet Mesh: Building a Trust Zone on the Internet [ .pdf ]
   L. Deng and A. Kuzmanovic
   Under submission
   How can the IDnet Mesh's identity validation service provide the two types of user accountability? How can we add strict non-repudiation to the identity validation service?
 
2. Towards Tussle-based Rules in Cyberspace [ .pdf ]
   L. Deng and A. Kuzmanovic
   Technical Report NWU-EECS-09-11, Apr. 2009
   How can we make the Internet's technical architecture accommodate tussles among people's conflicted interests? How can we fundamentality alleviate the difficulty to manage user behavior for online services where regulation feasibility becomes a must, e.g., to solve the intractable problems of spamming, vandalization, fraud, cyber bullying, abuses of free speech, and difficulties of trust, etc?
 
3. A Feeder-Carrier-Based Internet User Accountability Service [ .pdf ]
   L. Deng and A. Kuzmanovic
   Technical Report NWU-EECS-09-12, Jan. 2009
   Why can the authentication systems improve fundamentally if we decouple identity providers into feeders and carriers? Feeders — where users register accounts. Carriers — where users are authenticated.
 
4. IDnet Mesh - Technology Platform
   http://www.kelloggventurecommunity.com/?p=637
   Kellogg Venture Community
   Commercialization initiative in collaboration with Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
 
5. IDnet Mesh: For a More Secure Intranet and Internet
   http://ttp.northwestern.edu/abstracts/viewabs.php?id=355&cat=186
   Technology Transfer, Northwestern University
   Patent application information of the IDnet mesh technology.
 
6. IDnet Mesh: A User Identity Solution for the Internet [ .pdf ]
   L. Deng and A. Kuzmanovic, Oct. 2008
   Design, implementation, and evaluation of the IDnet mesh system — a general-purpose user identity architecture for the Internet.
 
7. Identity as a Service: Who Are You? [ .pdf ]
   L. Deng and A. Kuzmanovic, July 2008
   "Who are you?" There are at least two ways to answer this question: (i) "I am a trustable user. My name is Bill" or (ii) simply "I am a trustable user." The IDnet mesh solution takes the latter and enables it on the Internet.

Internet Politics

8. Internet Politics: Resist, Die, or Exploit? [ .pdf ]
   L. Deng and A. Kuzmanovic
   Technical Report NWU-EECS-08-15, July 2008
   What is "Internet politics"? Why does it make the Internet research so different from that of the other technologies? Calling "SIGCOMM mafia" is definitely wrong; it is not the problem of the people, but the problem of the system. What is "politics graphs"? How can this tool help the decision-making and the Internet research?
 
9. A Handy Internet Politics Measurement Note [ .pdf ]
   L. Deng, July 2008
   Quick examples of using "politics graphs" to perform case studies on (i) well-known but failed technical ideas in history, (ii) typical lawsuits related to the cyberspace, (iii) social problems related to the Internet, etc.

Initial Framework on Sustainable Development of the Internet

10. Sustainable Internet Architecture [ .pdf ]
    L. Deng and A. Kuzmanovic, Mar. 2008
    How can we carry out the technical part of the research on sustainable development of the Internet?
 
11. Sustainable Development of the Internet [ .pdf ]
    L. Deng and A. Kuzmanovic
    Technical Report NWU-EECS-08-14, Jan. 2008
    Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. How can we add sustainability to the Internet development by leveraging four critical points: identity, standards, incentives, and auditing? (Note: A defect of this work was that its design assumed the use of a single trusted third party, the government. This defect was fixed in the later work, which assumes the model of many distributed administrative parties.)