IAB Information Infrastructure Workshop

                        John Romkey
                       romkey@ELF.COM

                Internet Architecture Board 

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Why a workshop?

  o  Requested by the IESG

  o  Work on common architectural issues in the Internet's
     Information Infrastructure

  o  Facilitate communication between communities

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Status

  o  Date chosen:  October 12-14
  o  Location:  probably Washington, DC
  o  Initial invitations sent
  o  Call for white papers issued

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Call for White Papers

[See the minutes of the meeting.]

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Goals

  o  Understand the information infrastructure's requirements of
     the lower layers

  o  Understand the Internet's requirements of the information
     infrastructure

  o  Understand components of the information infrastructure

  o  State succinctly the services that applications implementors
     may use

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Architectural Issues

 Laundry List:

  o  naming
  o  caching
  o  type conversion
  o  security issues (privacy, authorization, authentication, ...)
  o  replication
  o  resource location
  o  integration with directory services
  o  accounting
  o  encoding
  o  longevity

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Invitees

  o  Selected experts from inside and outside IETF
  o  Selected white paper authors
  o  IESG AD's - Applications, User Services, Security
  o  IAB members

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Next Steps

  o  Publish workshop results in an Informational RFC
  o  Publish results on-line
  o  Report on workshop results at December IETF
  o  Spread results beyond workshop