wiki:GEC14Agenda/OptIn

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GENI Opt-In Users

Schedule

Monday July 9, 3.30pm - 5pm

Session Leaders

Richard Brooks, Clemson University

Agenda / Details

The performance of many network systems depends on the behavior of aggregate Internet traffic, which follows rules and statistics that are poorly understood. The usefulness of many applications depends on interactions between human beings, which are difficult to simulate. This implies that many GENI-based projects will need to use operational network traffic in order to produce reliable results.

Many researchers hesitate to use operational network traffic, since there are many ethical and administrative issues related to using operational network traffic. These include:

What privacy expectations do network users have?

What privacy expectations should network users have?

What are the liability implications for experimenters, universities, businesses and funding agencies of experimentation using network traffic containing information from individual users?

Is it necessary (should it be necessary) for individual users to approve network experiments using their data flows?

What safeguards should be provided to prevent disturbing network operations?

What types of experiments on operational network traffic should not be performed?

What steps should a prudent experimenter take before using operational data?

Are there different classes of users that need to be considered (ex. students at the local university with IT approval, users who agree to join in a prototype system, the public at large)?

This session will be a group discussion of these issues. One case history will be provided for a project using operational traffic. The role of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) will be discussed and reviewed.

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  • OptIn-1.pdf (1.2 MB) - added by Vic Thomas 12 years ago. Presentation used by Prof. Brooks to structure discussion at the session.

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