9 | | ==== Description ==== |
10 | | This workshop will bring together people interested in the topic of attribution in GENI. Attribution, as defined by the organizers of this workshop, is the binding of data (called a characteristic) with an entity (person, process, file, other data, etc). The goal |
11 | | of |
12 | | attribution |
13 | | is |
14 | | to show that the characteristic associated with an |
15 | | entity has a particular value, or one of a particular set of values. The purpose for using attribution is often to provide accountability—in a cyber-security context attribution is generally used to determine who is initiating an attack |
16 | | and therefore assumed to be good and desirable. |
| 9 | === Description === |
| 10 | This session will bring together members of the GENI community working with or developing attribution in its broadest form, including identity, specific characteristics such as packet origin and size, and other attributes relevant to experiments being conducted or to the operation and maintenance of GENI. |
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| 12 | === Objectives === |
| 13 | The goals of this session are to brainstorm on how different GENI projects plan to develop and use attribution, what attributes they plan to develop for use and would like to develop; and what properties of an attribution infrastructure would best meet their needs, the needs of experimenters, and enable the operators of GENI to manage and protect GENI. We expect to develop a list or description of these attributes, and ideas about the infrastructure and its interfaces. |
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| 15 | === Background Reading === |
| 16 | ''Attribution for GENI handout'', available at http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/attrib; also, the paper and report (for the very interested) are recommended. |