April 2021 - 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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Research Funding
by Gergana Petrova 19 May '21

19 May '21

Dear colleagues, RACI used to provide funding for academics to present their research at events such as the RIPE Meeting and the RIPE NCC regional meetings. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the funds for this initiative for this year will instead be used to support research projects relevant to work carried out by the RIPE NCC. We invite academic and research institutes in the RIPE NCC service region to submit proposals to work on projects in these areas: - Apply machine learning and big data analytics to the collected routing data to identify and predict trends. - Apply and customise big data visualisation frameworks to the collected routing data to better display the data to users. More details are available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/raci/raci-project-funding If you are interested, please send us a project proposal by 31 May. Feel free to spread this call to whomever you think might find it interesting. For any questions, please write to raci(a)ripe.net. Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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ACM HotNets'21 call for submissions
by Aaron Ding 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

The 20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2021) will bring together researchers in computer networks and systems to engage in a lively debate on the theory and practice of computer networking. HotNets provides a venue for discussing innovative ideas and for debating future research agendas in networking. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit short position papers. We encourage papers that identify fundamental open questions, advocate a new approach, offer a constructive critique of the state of networking research, re-frame or debunk existing work, report unexpected early results from a deployment, report on promising but unproven ideas, or propose new evaluation methods. Novel ideas need not be supported by full evaluations; well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations can support the possibility of the paper’s claims. We seek early-stage work, where the authors can benefit from community feedback. An ideal submission has the potential to open a line of inquiry for the community that results in multiple conference papers in related venues (SIGCOMM, NSDI, CoNEXT, SOSP, OSDI, MobiCom, MobiSys, etc.), rather than a single follow-on conference paper. The program committee will explicitly favor early work and papers likely to stimulate reflection and discussion over “conference papers in miniature”. Finished work that fits in a short paper is likely a better fit with the short-paper tracks at either CoNEXT or IMC, for example. HotNets takes a broad view of networking research. This includes new ideas relating to (but not limited to) mobile, wide-area, data-center, home, and enterprise networks using a variety of link technologies (wired, wireless, visual, and acoustic), as well as social networks and network architecture. It encompasses all aspects of networks, including (but not limited to) packet-processing hardware and software, virtualization, mobility, provisioning and resource management, performance, energy consumption, topology, robustness and security, measurement, diagnosis, verification, privacy, economics and evolution, interactions with applications, and usability of underlying networking technologies. Position papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of stimulating insightful discussion at the workshop, and technical merit. Accepted papers will be posted online prior to the workshop and will be published in the ACM Digital Library to facilitate wide dissemination of the ideas discussed at the workshop. Policy on Concurrent Submissions Concurrent submissions to HotNets 2021 and any other peer-reviewed venue that cover the same work (differences in the degree of detail given the two venues’ length limits notwithstanding) are prohibited, and will result in the immediate rejection of the HotNets submission in question. “Concurrent” means any other peer-reviewed venue whose reviewing period (i.e., between submission and notification) overlaps with that of HotNets. The “same work” means, for example, a submission overlapping significantly in content with a conference submission. However, a position paper submitted to HotNets (e.g., that reflects broadly on the state of some aspect of the field, adopts a position as to how the field should move forward, or articulates a broad avenue of future work) will not be considered the “same work” as a conference-length paper on a specific system that addresses a point under the broad umbrella covered by the position paper. Authors with questions about the concurrent submission policy are encouraged to contact the PC chairs (Minlan and Laurent) prior to submitting. Ethical Concerns As part of the submission process, authors must attest that their work complies with all applicable ethical standards of their home institution(s), including, but not limited to privacy policies and policies on experiments involving humans. Note that submitting research for approval by one’s institution’s ethics review body is necessary, but not sufficient – in cases where the PC has concerns about the ethics of the work in a submission, the PC will have its own discussion of the ethics of that work. The PC takes a broad view of what constitutes an ethical concern, and authors agree to be available at any time during the review process to rapidly respond to queries from the PC chairs regarding ethical standards. Submission and Formatting Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages (10 point font, 12 point leading, 7 inch by 9.25 inch text block) including all content except references. There are no limits for reference pages. The archive (https://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2021/hotnets21-template.zip) contains a LaTeX class file that follows the prescribed submission format and an example of a paper formatted using that class. All submissions must be blind: they must not indicate the names or affiliations of the authors in the paper. Only electronic submissions in PDF will be accepted. Submissions must be written in English, render without error using standard tools (e.g., Acrobat Reader), and print on US Letter paper. Papers must contain novel ideas and must differ significantly in content from previously published papers. Submit papers on the HotNets 2021 HotCRP web site: https://hotnets21.hotcrp.com/ Important Dates Abstract deadline: June 18, 2021 (6 pm EDT) Paper submission deadline: June 25, 2021 (6 pm EDT) Acceptance/rejection notification: August 27, 2021 Camera-ready deadline: TBD General Chairs Andrew Moore (Cambridge) Srinivasan Keshav (Cambridge) Program Chairs Minlan Yu (Harvard) Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zurich) Publicity Chair Aaron Ding (TU Delft) Publications Chair Gianni Antichi (Queen Mary University London) Program Committee Amin Vahdat (Google) Anees Shaikh (Google) Anja Feldmann (MPI) Aurojit Panda (NYU) Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft Research) Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and VMware) Bruce Maggs (Duke University, Emerald Innovations and MIT) Chunyi Peng (Purdue University) Costin Raiciu (University Politehnica of Bucharest) Dongsu Han (KAIST) Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology) Fadel Adib (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Junchen Jiang (University of Chicago) Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Kyle Jamieson (Princeton) Larry Peterson (Open Networking Foundation) Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (Cornell University) Nick Feamster (University of Chicago) Ori Rottenstreich (Technion) Paolo Costa (Microsoft Research) Peter Steenkiste (CMU) Phillipa Gill (Google) Radhika Niranjan Mysore (VMWare) Rajalakshmi Nandakumar (Cornell Tech) Ratul Mahajan (University of Washington, Intentionet) Srinivas Narayana (Rutgers University) Xin Jin (Peking University) Ying Zhang (Facebook) Zafar Ayyub Qazi (LUMS)

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Join the Academic/NREN online session: 14 May at 12h UTC / 14h CEST
by Gergana Petrova 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Dear all, For the past few years we've been organising a session for academia and NRENs parallel to each RIPE Meeting. It consists of an introduction round followed by short presentations and Q&A. Since the meeting is vitual this year, anyone with interest can attend, (so even if you are not attending the RIPE Meeting). If you are interested to join, please email me back. The session will take place on Friday, 14 May, 12:00-13:00 UTC / 14:00-15:00 CEST. If you are interested to attend, would you also want to talk about something? This can be: - Your recent research: it doesn't matter if it is published or not, finished or not. All that matters is that you want to tell us about it and maybe answer a few questions. The topics we are interested in: network measurement and analysis, IPv6, routing, network security, peering and interconnectivity, IoT, Internet governance. - Any project of your university or NREN - maybe you launched a new popular course or created a new platform for online learning? We'd like to have several talks of up to 10 minutes. If there is a lot of interest, we can make the session a little longer. It's up to you whether you prefer to do them with or without slides. You can make it as informal or formal as you like. Please let me know what you think! Have a lovely day, Gergana Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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IEEE ICNP 2021 Call for Workshops
by Ignacio Castro 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

IEEE ICNP 2021 Call for Workshops ICNP, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, is the premier conference covering all aspects of network protocol research, including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. ICNP 2021 will host multiple one-day or half-day workshops in conjunction with the main conference, to be held in Dallas, Texas, USA, November 2-5, 2021. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topic related to the main ICNP conference. ICNP workshops should focus on emerging research areas as well as boosting interactions among participants and community building. Website: https://icnp21.cs.ucr.edu/cfw.html A workshop proposal for ICNP 2021 should contain at least the following information: - Name and possible acronym of the workshop. - Motivation and rationale for the workshop. - Names and affiliations of main organizers, and a tentative composition of the committees (as complete as possible). - Workshop format, i.e., expected number of presented papers, slot lengths, information about invited talks, panels, demonstrations, etc. - Expected number of participants and expected number of submissions. - Prior history of this workshop, if any, including number of submissions, number of accepted papers, and attendee count of previous instances. - Draft call-for-papers, including introduction and topics of the workshop. Please note that the paper submission deadline of workshops should be around the beginning of July and the camera-ready processing of conference papers, tentatively set as August 24th, 2021, must be met by all workshops as well. Also, the break times need to be the same across all parallel workshops. All the registered participants to a workshop will receive a ticket for the welcome reception of the main conference to be held on the evening of November 2nd. The paper lengths are limited to six pages in IEEE Computer Society format. All the accepted papers need to be presented at the workshop. They will be included in the workshop proceedings as well as IEEE Xplore. Enquiries and/or submissions of your workshop proposals are encouraged to be emailed to cqian12(a)ucsc.edu<mailto:cqian12@ucsc.edu> and tolidan(a)tsinghua.edu.cn<mailto:tolidan@tsinghua.edu.cn> with the Subject: ICNP2021 proposal: "your proposal acronym". The deadline for receiving these workshop proposals is March 1st, 2021. Acceptance decisions will be notified by March 15th, 2021. *with apologies for cross-posting

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EdgeSys'21 participation
by Aaron Ding 10 Apr '21

10 Apr '21

Related to IoT edge/fog topics, there will be two keynotes at EdgeSys this year from the Nokia Bell Labs Senior Director & EuroSys Test of Time Awardee. In addition, a special Q&A with Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum: https://edge-sys.github.io/2021/keynote.html Technical papers to present at EdgeSys'21 on the April 26th: https://edge-sys.github.io/2021/accepted_papers.html Participations from RACI are warmly welcome! The conference registration is free: https://2021.eurosys.org/registration.html#registration Cheers, Aaron

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Call for Book Chapters
by Ryma Abassi 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting to our upcoming new research book *"Cybersecurity Crisis Management and Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic" *that will be published by the international academic publisherIGI Global. *Important Dates:* *May 19, 2021*: Proposal Submission Deadline *June 2, 2021*: Notification of Acceptance *August 1, 2021*: Full Chapter Submission *September 14, 2021*: Review Results Returned *October 26, 2021*: Final Acceptance Notification *November 9, 2021*: Final Chapter Submission *Scope:* The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations and individuals to embrace new practices such as social distancing and remote working. In fact, people have increasingly relied on the internet to work, shop and stay entertained. However, while the world is focused on the health and economic threats posed by COVID-19, cyber criminals are capitalizing on this crisis: in just few months, the world became far more digitally connected and vulnerable than ever. The purpose of this book is to disseminate cutting-edge research results, highlight research challenges and open issues, and promotes further research interest and activities in security and privacy in the COVID-19's era. This book is intended to provide a useful material for academicians, researchers, startup companies, students, scholars, executives and decision-makers from enterprises, ICT procurement managers and healthcare actors. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support executives concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information, and organizational development in different types of work communities and environments. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Cyber crisis management during a pandemic * Privacy issues related to contact tracing from both technical and legal perspectives (e.g., GDPR) * Privacy-preserving contact tracing applications * Recommendations and guidelines for preventing, detecting and responding to cyber threats during a pandemic * Risks of work from home and mitigation strategies * Cybersecurity Risks in a Pandemic * Privacy during COVID-19: case studies * COVID-19’s impact on healthcare’s security infrastructure * Cybersecurity Roles in a Pandemic * Law, Investigation, and Ethics in the post COVID-19 era *Submission Procedure:* Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *May 19, 2021*, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by *June 2, 2021* about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *August 1, 2021*, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ <https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/>prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Cybersecurity Crisis Management and Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery^® online submission manager. For more information: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/5244 <https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/5244>. Best regards, Editors Ryma Abassi SUPCOM abassi.ryma(a)gmail.com <mailto:abassi.ryma@gmail.com> Aida Ben Chehida Douss SUPCOM benchehida.aida(a)gmail.com <mailto:benchehida.aida@gmail.com>

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