August 2020 - RACI-list - mailman.ripe.net

Hosting an Academic Day at your Institution
by Gergana Petrova 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Dear all, I have a question for you. The RIPE NCC used to host in-person academic days on various topcs such as Internet 101, Routing, the RIPE Database, IPv6, RPKI, Internet Governance. With the current COVID restrictions we would like to move these online. Are any of your universities interested in such an online event? If so, can you support us by organising and spreading the word about the session and inviting students and we will deliver the content. Please let me know if you are interested. We can organise these relatively quickly. And if it does not work for you before summer, we can do it also in fall, regardless of the COVID situation. Looking forward to hearing from you. Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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[CFP] [TICS] Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance 2020
by Vasilis Ververis 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hello, We have a new call for papers that may be of interest to some of you. Please feel free to share widely. Thank you! Online version: https://tics.site/cfp/ # TICS 2020 **Co-located with the [2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2020)](http://wi2020.vcrab.com.au/), to be held online.** ## Introduction Over the past years there has been a greater demand from large-scale players such as governments and dominant media companies for online censorship and surveillance, as an understandable reaction against hate speech, copyright violations, and other cases related to citizen compliance with civil laws and regulations by national authorities. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by a tendency of extensively censoring online content and massively spying on citizens actions. Numerous whistle-blower revelations, leaks from classified documents, and a vast amount of information released by activists, researchers and journalists, reveal evidence of government-sponsored infrastructure that either goes beyond the requirements and scope of the law, or operates without any effective regulations in place. In addition, this infrastructure often supports the interests of big private corporations, such as the companies that enforce online copyright control. Mobile networks are particularly vulnerable to the above points. Due to the nature of their deployment, few actors can achieve far-reaching results, and end-users are left unprotected; we are interested in tracking developments that, without sacrificing functionality and convenience, allow end-users to get control on the amount and breadth of information generated, stored and processed on them. TICS is a special track the area of Internet censorship, surveillance and other adversarial burdens to technology that bring in danger; to a greater extend the safety (physical security and privacy) of its users. Proposals for TICS 2020 should be situated within the field of Internet censorship, network measurements, information controls, surveillance and content moderation. ## Workshop topics The goal of TICS is to raise awareness around the implications of network interference, by inviting researchers from complementary disciplines to consider the effect of their own domain on online censorship and surveillance. Along those lines, we invite submissions that address the following topics: * Research on technologies and policies that build upon advancements on the field of web intelligence to imply blocking, limitation or distortion of the availability of network services and online content * The application of web intelligence concepts such as behavioral modeling, data mining, and social network analytics to target groups and individuals by law enforcement agencies and private corporations * The implications of algorithmic and AI-assisted user content classification (such as for identification of hate-speech, copyright, or disinformation) * Novel techniques that leverage web intelligence to defend netizens against censorship and surveillance, or privacy enhancements to the existing AI infrastructure to mitigate these threats * Measurement methodologies that detect network interference or content moderation based on crowd knowledge or web analytics * The socio-economic consequences and implementation limitations and fallacies of upload filters and recommendation systems * Business models and amendments to legal frameworks which promote the use of web intelligence in ways that build a pluralistic, private, and human-centric experience without violating user freedoms * Privacy on mobile networks * Network measurements * Radio frequency communications * Data leaks * Surveillance * Backdoors into carrier equipment (base stations, antennas, switches, software) * Law enforcement * Telcos security and advance persistent threats * Network espionage and nation state threats (e.g. "operation Soft Cell") * Middleboxes / DPI * Content regulation * Wiretapping * Net neutrality * Data retention * GDPR * Device/radio blocking (Network IMEI) * Ownership of infrastructure, and community-operated networks * Spectrum sharing * License-exempt spectrum ## Important dates * Paper Submission due: September 15th, 2020 * Notification to authors: October 15th, 2020 * Final, camera ready papers, due: November 15th, 2020 * Workshop date: December 14th, 2020 ## Paper Submission **[Paper Submission Page](https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/wi20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S0… Submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the standard ACM 2-column format.\ The ACM Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines can be found at: <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> ## Committees ### Program Chairs * Vasilis Ververis, Humboldt University Berlin, vasilis(a)tics.site * Marios Isaakidis, University College London, marios(a)tics.site * Gunnar Wolf, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, gwolf(a)tics.site You can contact all of the chairs by addressing your mail to: <chairs(a)tics.site> ### Program Committee * Chrystalenni Loizidou, University of Nicosia * Keith McManamen, Psiphon * Will Scott, University of Michigan ## Past Workshops - [2019 (Valencia, Spain)](https://tics.site/2019) Best regards, ~Vasilis

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2 x Open Faculty Positions at the University of Glasgow
by Angelos Marnerides 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, I hope you are all keeping well. We have 2 x permanent faculty openings (L/SL/R levels = -US tenured- Assistant/Associate Professor) at Glasgow's School of Computing Science in topics that span across theoretical computer science and computer systems. Networked systems is one of the areas where applications are particularly encouraged. Deadline is 2nd October 2020: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CBF834/lecturer-senior-lecturer-reader-glass-fat… Please consider applying or/and spreading the word, and do not hesitate to get in touch for informal enquiries. With thanks, Angelos ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Angelos K. Marnerides (BSc, MSc, PhD, MIEEE, MACM) Associate Professor in Secure Networked Systems School of Computing Science University of Glasgow web: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~akm/ The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401.

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Reference metro-area IP/MPLS deployments, with underlays
by Etienne-Victor Depasquale 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Hello, I'm new to this list ... I hope that I've understood the scope correctly. I'm looking for reference implementations of IP/MPLS operator networks within ***the metro area***, that do not abstract the underlay (underlying transport). To clarify, I would like to see the underlying multiplexing technology, whether it's wavelengths, OTN, statistical using long-reach Ethernet (e.g. 10GBASE-ER), SONET/SDH. Can anyone suggest a pointer? Sincerely, Etienne -- Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale Assistant Lecturer Department of Communications & Computer Engineering Faculty of Information & Communication Technology University of Malta Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale

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RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Submit your application today!
by Gergana Petrova 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, We would like to remind you that the call for applications for the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund will close on 23 August, at 23:59 UTC. Through the Community Projects Fund, the RIPE NCC offers funding of €250,000 in total for projects that work to improve the operation, resilience and sustainability of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical community in our service region. If your project works for the ‘good of the Internet’, and you would like to apply for funding, please make sure to submit your application before the deadline. You can find detailed information about the Community Projects Fund here: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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ACM SIGCOMM Traffic Manipulation Attacks and Defences (ManTra) 2020
by Shulman, Haya 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, today (14 August) between 16:00 and 22:00 (Germany timezone) takes place the first workshop on Traffic Manipulation Attacks and Defences, ManTra 2020. The workshop takes place digitally through Zoom. The goal of the workshop is to foster research on traffic manipulation attacks and defences and to bridge the gap between academia, industry and standardisation organs. The scope of the workshop includes understanding the landscape of traffic manipulation attacks, learning about the attackers (cyber criminals, security agencies, govts...), inferring vulnerabilities, ... and devising countermeasures, including challenges towards their deployment on real Internet networks. Full details are available on the workshop web site. The workshop is open to all SIGCOMM participants; so far SIGCOMM has way over 1000 registered participants. The registration is still open and highly affordable. The first ManTra workshop features talks from top researchers and expert practitioners in the area and is chaired by Haya Shulman and Radia Perlman. The program of the workshop is here: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2020/workshop-mantra.html Click on the talks' titles to read the abstracts. I encourage all who are interested in the topic to join us today and interact with our renowned speakers and program committee. The recordings of the ManTra workshop will be available through ACM SIGCOMM after the event. The ManTra workshop is sponsored by the ATHENE National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity in Darmstadt. Best, Haya Shulman and Radia Perlman -- Dr. Haya Shulman Division Director Cybersecurity Analytics and Defences Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT Rheinstraße 75, 64295 Darmstadt, T. +49-6151-869505 / M. +49-160 96249718 https://sites.google.com/site/hayashulman

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