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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. 

== Session Summary ==


== Presentations ==

[attachment:OptIn-1.pdf Presentation used by Richard Brooks].  Contains topics discussed at the session.