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[CFP] ITC35 PhD Workshop - Travel Grants Available

by Martino Trevisan

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this mail] ITC35 PhD Workshop, co-located with the 35th International Teletraffic Congress “Network Traffic Engineering in the TLC networks of the future” Wednesday, October 4, 2023, Turin Website: https://itc35.itc-conference.org/ CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Re-thinking fundamental networking functions, their modeling and their performance evaluation in the framework of the evolving Internet and cellular networks, in the era of cloud and content providers, is a target for the ITC community. The PhD workshop aims at fostering contributions and fresh ideas from young researchers, pursuing their PhD or having just completed their PhD. Discussion of their PhD ideas and progress, proposition of research challenges and directions is welcome during a dedicated workshop. TRAVEL GRANTS The International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the ITC has decided to offer a number of travel grants (STG) that will be available to support full-time students for attending ITC 35th. The amount of each grant is EUR 600 that can be used to cover student travel expenses related to attending ITC 35th conference, such as student registration fee, airline ticket, and hotel accommodation expenses. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS With respect to the presentation to be given during the Workshop, two contribution formats are solicited: * more mature research works, in the form of a long presentation (up to 20 min each); * short in-progress research work discussion, with a short presentation (up to 10 min each). Correspondingly, Authors proposing a long presentation are invited to submit an extended abstract (max 3 pages plus references, using the same format as for regular contributions to the main conference). Extended abstracts will be published along with conference proceedings. The best contribution will be invited for submission as a full paper to be fast-track reviewed for potential publication in a journal (to be determined). Authors proposing a short presentation are solicited to submit a title, list of Authors and a short abstract (up to 400 words), to help set up the workshop program. Contribution should be sent in PDF format via email to: * Andrea Baiocchi: andrea.baiocchi(a)uniroma1.it<mailto:andrea.baiocchi@uniroma1.it> * Lea Skorin-Kapov: Lea.Skorin-Kapov(a)fer.hr<mailto:Lea.Skorin-Kapov@fer.hr> IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: August 10, 2023 (Extended) * Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2023 (Extended) * Submission of camera-ready extended abstracts: September 16, 2023 (Extended) Camera-ready versions should be uploaded as indicated with respect to camera-ready instructions WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Andrea Baiocchi, University of Rome, Italy * Lea Skorin-Kapov, University of Zagreb, Croatia For any questions do not hesitate to contact the conference organization under itc35_oc(a)tlc.polito.it<mailto:itc35_oc@tlc.polito.it> Best Regards, ITC 35 Organizing Team nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it

Aug. 2, 2023

Re: [nexa] "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet

by Stefano Quintarelli

l'dea alla base dell'ultimo libro di dave eggers e' proprio queste aziende che ci vogliono liberare dall'onere della scelta. On 01/08/23 09:55, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > Using a free browser is now more important than ever. > We've written recently on this topic, but the issue we wrote > about there was minor compared to the gross injustice Google > is now attempting to force down the throats of web users > around the world. > The so-called "Web Environment Integrity" (WEI) is the worst > stunt we've seen from them in some time. Beginning its life > as an innocuous, if worrying, policy document posted to > Microsoft GitHub, Google has now fast-tracked its development > into their Chromium browser. At its current rate of progress, > WEI will be upon us in no time. > > By giving developers an API through which they can approve > certain browser configurations while forbidding others, WEI is > a tremendous step toward the "enshittification" of the web > as a whole. Many of us have grown up with a specific idea of > the Internet, the notion of it as a collection of hyperlinked > pages that can be accessed by a wide variety of different > machines, programs, and operating systems. > WEI is this idea's antithesis. > > Compared to its staggering potential effects, the technical > means through which WEI will accomplish its ends is relatively > simple. Before serving a web page, a server can ask a third-party > "verification" service to make sure that the user's browsing > environment has not been "tampered" with. A translation of the > policy's terminology will help us here: this Google-owned server > will be asked to make sure that the browser does not deviate in > any way from Google's accepted browser configuration, precluding > any meaningful use of the four freedoms. It is not far-fetched > to imagine a future in which sites simply refuse to serve pages > to users running free browsers or free operating systems. > If WEI isn't stopped now, that future will come sooner than we think. > > While Web Environment Integrity has a policy document that attempts > to explain valid ways in which it could be used, these are all > non-issues compared to the way that we know it will be used. > It will be used by governments to ensure that only their officially > "approved" (read: backdoored) browsers are able to access the > Internet; it will be used by corporations like Netflix to further > Digital Restrictions Management (DRM); it will be used by Google > to deny access to their services unless you are using a browser > that gels with their profit margin. > > Once upon a time, Google's official policy was "don't be evil." > With the rapid progress they've made on Web Environment Integrity > in such a short time, we can say very safely that their policy > is now to pioneer evil. > As we write this, talented and well-paid Google engineers and > executives are working to dismantle what makes the web the web. > Given that Google is one of the largest corporations on the planet, > our only hope of saving the Internet as we know it is a clear and > principled stance for freedom, a collective upholding of the > communal principles on which the web was based. > > Let us repeat: there is absolutely no legitimate justification for WEI. > The use cases that the policy document highlights are nothing compared > to its real use case, which is developing a method to obtain complete > and total restriction of the free Internet. > > We urge everyone involved in a decision-making capacity at Google > to consider the principles on which the web was founded, and to > carefully contemplate whether Web Environment Integrity aligns > with those principles. > We hope that they will realize WEI's fundamental incompatibility > with the free Internet and cease work on the standard immediately. > > And if they don't? Well, they ought to be ashamed. > > > https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out… > > Dopo tutti questi anni di Google, sperare che gli sviluppatori di > Google si vergognino di ciò che stanno facendo è estremamente ingenuo. > > Può però essere utile a chi legge i suoi lobbisti più o meno > insospettabili, sapere a cosa Google sta puntando da anni. > > > Ma come con ChatGPT e Microsoft/OpenAI, anche in questo caso vedremo > spuntare come funghi allucinogeni diversi utili idioti pronti a difendere > a spada tratta la povera Google che non vuole altro che proteggere > i poveri utenti... dalla propria libertà. > > Loro non si vergogneranno, ma noi potremo indignarci disgustati. > > > Giacomo > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Aug. 1, 2023

Re: [nexa] "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet

by Fabio Alemagna

Ho letto il paper: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/expla… Sarà un mio problema, ma non mi è chiaro come tecnicamente si possa assicurare che la funzione navigator.getEnvironmentIntegrity() dica la "verità" all'attester senza cooperazione da parte del dispositivo su cui gira il browser, e non mi sembra che il paper entri nel dettaglio. Lo stesso paper ha un capitolo intitolato "Open Questions" dedicato proprio ai rischi che stanno venendo paventati e - a parole - sostiene di voler tutelare l'Open Web: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/expla… Concordo sul fatto che la cosa sia potenzialmente problematica, e si fa bene a tenere gli occhi aperti, ma tutto ciò che ho letto fino ad ora in merito mi appare fumoso. Ad ogni modo, i regolamenti UE non vietano pratiche come quelle che si pensa verrebbero messe in atto? Fabio Il giorno mar 1 ago 2023 alle ore 09:55 Giacomo Tesio <giacomo(a)tesio.it> ha scritto: > > Using a free browser is now more important than ever. > We've written recently on this topic, but the issue we wrote > about there was minor compared to the gross injustice Google > is now attempting to force down the throats of web users > around the world. > The so-called "Web Environment Integrity" (WEI) is the worst > stunt we've seen from them in some time. Beginning its life > as an innocuous, if worrying, policy document posted to > Microsoft GitHub, Google has now fast-tracked its development > into their Chromium browser. At its current rate of progress, > WEI will be upon us in no time. > > By giving developers an API through which they can approve > certain browser configurations while forbidding others, WEI is > a tremendous step toward the "enshittification" of the web > as a whole. Many of us have grown up with a specific idea of > the Internet, the notion of it as a collection of hyperlinked > pages that can be accessed by a wide variety of different > machines, programs, and operating systems. > WEI is this idea's antithesis. > > Compared to its staggering potential effects, the technical > means through which WEI will accomplish its ends is relatively > simple. Before serving a web page, a server can ask a third-party > "verification" service to make sure that the user's browsing > environment has not been "tampered" with. A translation of the > policy's terminology will help us here: this Google-owned server > will be asked to make sure that the browser does not deviate in > any way from Google's accepted browser configuration, precluding > any meaningful use of the four freedoms. It is not far-fetched > to imagine a future in which sites simply refuse to serve pages > to users running free browsers or free operating systems. > If WEI isn't stopped now, that future will come sooner than we think. > > While Web Environment Integrity has a policy document that attempts > to explain valid ways in which it could be used, these are all > non-issues compared to the way that we know it will be used. > It will be used by governments to ensure that only their officially > "approved" (read: backdoored) browsers are able to access the > Internet; it will be used by corporations like Netflix to further > Digital Restrictions Management (DRM); it will be used by Google > to deny access to their services unless you are using a browser > that gels with their profit margin. > > Once upon a time, Google's official policy was "don't be evil." > With the rapid progress they've made on Web Environment Integrity > in such a short time, we can say very safely that their policy > is now to pioneer evil. > As we write this, talented and well-paid Google engineers and > executives are working to dismantle what makes the web the web. > Given that Google is one of the largest corporations on the planet, > our only hope of saving the Internet as we know it is a clear and > principled stance for freedom, a collective upholding of the > communal principles on which the web was based. > > Let us repeat: there is absolutely no legitimate justification for WEI. > The use cases that the policy document highlights are nothing compared > to its real use case, which is developing a method to obtain complete > and total restriction of the free Internet. > > We urge everyone involved in a decision-making capacity at Google > to consider the principles on which the web was founded, and to > carefully contemplate whether Web Environment Integrity aligns > with those principles. > We hope that they will realize WEI's fundamental incompatibility > with the free Internet and cease work on the standard immediately. > > And if they don't? Well, they ought to be ashamed. > > > https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out… > > Dopo tutti questi anni di Google, sperare che gli sviluppatori di > Google si vergognino di ciò che stanno facendo è estremamente ingenuo. > > Può però essere utile a chi legge i suoi lobbisti più o meno > insospettabili, sapere a cosa Google sta puntando da anni. > > > Ma come con ChatGPT e Microsoft/OpenAI, anche in questo caso vedremo > spuntare come funghi allucinogeni diversi utili idioti pronti a difendere > a spada tratta la povera Google che non vuole altro che proteggere > i poveri utenti... dalla propria libertà. > > Loro non si vergogneranno, ma noi potremo indignarci disgustati. > > > Giacomo > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Aug. 1, 2023

"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet

by Giacomo Tesio

Using a free browser is now more important than ever. We've written recently on this topic, but the issue we wrote about there was minor compared to the gross injustice Google is now attempting to force down the throats of web users around the world. The so-called "Web Environment Integrity" (WEI) is the worst stunt we've seen from them in some time. Beginning its life as an innocuous, if worrying, policy document posted to Microsoft GitHub, Google has now fast-tracked its development into their Chromium browser. At its current rate of progress, WEI will be upon us in no time. By giving developers an API through which they can approve certain browser configurations while forbidding others, WEI is a tremendous step toward the "enshittification" of the web as a whole. Many of us have grown up with a specific idea of the Internet, the notion of it as a collection of hyperlinked pages that can be accessed by a wide variety of different machines, programs, and operating systems. WEI is this idea's antithesis. Compared to its staggering potential effects, the technical means through which WEI will accomplish its ends is relatively simple. Before serving a web page, a server can ask a third-party "verification" service to make sure that the user's browsing environment has not been "tampered" with. A translation of the policy's terminology will help us here: this Google-owned server will be asked to make sure that the browser does not deviate in any way from Google's accepted browser configuration, precluding any meaningful use of the four freedoms. It is not far-fetched to imagine a future in which sites simply refuse to serve pages to users running free browsers or free operating systems. If WEI isn't stopped now, that future will come sooner than we think. While Web Environment Integrity has a policy document that attempts to explain valid ways in which it could be used, these are all non-issues compared to the way that we know it will be used. It will be used by governments to ensure that only their officially "approved" (read: backdoored) browsers are able to access the Internet; it will be used by corporations like Netflix to further Digital Restrictions Management (DRM); it will be used by Google to deny access to their services unless you are using a browser that gels with their profit margin. Once upon a time, Google's official policy was "don't be evil." With the rapid progress they've made on Web Environment Integrity in such a short time, we can say very safely that their policy is now to pioneer evil. As we write this, talented and well-paid Google engineers and executives are working to dismantle what makes the web the web. Given that Google is one of the largest corporations on the planet, our only hope of saving the Internet as we know it is a clear and principled stance for freedom, a collective upholding of the communal principles on which the web was based. Let us repeat: there is absolutely no legitimate justification for WEI. The use cases that the policy document highlights are nothing compared to its real use case, which is developing a method to obtain complete and total restriction of the free Internet. We urge everyone involved in a decision-making capacity at Google to consider the principles on which the web was founded, and to carefully contemplate whether Web Environment Integrity aligns with those principles. We hope that they will realize WEI's fundamental incompatibility with the free Internet and cease work on the standard immediately. And if they don't? Well, they ought to be ashamed. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out… Dopo tutti questi anni di Google, sperare che gli sviluppatori di Google si vergognino di ciò che stanno facendo è estremamente ingenuo. Può però essere utile a chi legge i suoi lobbisti più o meno insospettabili, sapere a cosa Google sta puntando da anni. Ma come con ChatGPT e Microsoft/OpenAI, anche in questo caso vedremo spuntare come funghi allucinogeni diversi utili idioti pronti a difendere a spada tratta la povera Google che non vuole altro che proteggere i poveri utenti... dalla propria libertà. Loro non si vergogneranno, ma noi potremo indignarci disgustati. Giacomo

Aug. 1, 2023

The Effective Use of Economics in the EU Digital Markets Act

by Luigi Scorca

https://tobin.yale.edu/research/effective-use-economics-eu-digital-markets-… Luigi

July 31, 2023

Fwd: The British Government Is Coming For Your Privacy

by Andrea Trentini

era passato qui? <https://hackaday.com/2023/07/30/the-british-government-is-coming-for-your-p…> -- Andrea Trentini ⠠⠵ http://atrent.it public key ID: 0xA7A91E3B Dip.to di Informatica Università degli Studi di Milano

July 30, 2023

Re: [nexa] Mailing list offline dal 5/8 al 21/8

by Giovanni Garifo

Manutenzione elettrica dello stabile in cui si trova la sala server che ci ospita. Grazie comunque per la disponibilità! Buone vacanze, -- Giovanni Garifo IT Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 65/A - 10138 Torino w. nexa.polito.it/people/ggarifo l. linkedin.com/in/giovannigarifo Il giorno 29 lug 2023, alle ore 15:43, Damiano Verzulli <damiano(a)verzulli.it> ha scritto: Il 29/07/23 10:43, Giovanni Garifo ha scritto: Cari utenti della mailing list, a causa di interventi di manutenzione la mailing list del Centro Nexa rimarrà offline dal 5 al 21 agosto. Ci scusiamo per il disagio e per il breve preavviso. Salve Giovanni. Se posso.... posso chiedere di che tipo di manutenzione si tratta? 16 giorni.... sono tantini (non solo per "manutenzioni"; anche per "disaster-recovery") :-) Detto cio', se posso dare una mano, sono "a disposizione". Saluti, DV -- Damiano Verzulli e-mail: damiano(a)verzulli.it --- possible?ok:while(!possible){open_mindedness++} --- "...I realized that free software would not generate the kind of income that was needed. Maybe in USA or Europe, you may be able to get a well paying job as a free software developer, but not here [in Africa]..." -- Guido Sohne - 1973-2008 http://ole.kenic.or.ke/pipermail/skunkworks/2008-April/005989.html _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

July 29, 2023

Re: [nexa] Mailing list offline dal 5/8 al 21/8

by Damiano Verzulli

Il 29/07/23 10:43, Giovanni Garifo ha scritto: > Cari utenti della mailing list, > > a causa di interventi di manutenzione la mailing list del Centro Nexa > rimarrà offline dal 5 al 21 agosto. Ci scusiamo per il disagio e per > il breve preavviso. Salve Giovanni. Se posso.... posso chiedere di che tipo di manutenzione si tratta? 16 giorni.... sono tantini (non solo per "manutenzioni"; anche per "disaster-recovery") :-) Detto cio', se posso dare una mano, sono "a disposizione". Saluti, DV -- Damiano Verzulli e-mail: damiano(a)verzulli.it --- possible?ok:while(!possible){open_mindedness++} --- "...I realized that free software would not generate the kind of income that was needed. Maybe in USA or Europe, you may be able to get a well paying job as a free software developer, but not here [in Africa]..." -- Guido Sohne - 1973-2008 http://ole.kenic.or.ke/pipermail/skunkworks/2008-April/005989.html

July 29, 2023

Mailing list offline dal 5/8 al 21/8

by Giovanni Garifo

Cari utenti della mailing list, a causa di interventi di manutenzione la mailing list del Centro Nexa rimarrà offline dal 5 al 21 agosto. Ci scusiamo per il disagio e per il breve preavviso. Cordialmente, -- Giovanni Garifo IT Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 65/A - 10138 Torino w. nexa.polito.it/people/ggarifo l. linkedin.com/in/giovannigarifo

July 29, 2023

The Indonesian village that wants to cut off the internet | Indonesia | The Guardian

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/28/the-village-that-wants-to-cut…> Four hours’ drive from the hustle and bustle of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, lies the secluded community of Baduy Dalam, where the trapping of modern life are shunned. The Baduy Dalam people reject money, technology and formal education, and limits tourists – banning any visitors from documenting their life. Now the tribe wants to go one step further, by cutting off the internet. Officials in Indonesia are considering a request from the group for an internet blackout, after they cited concerns over negative impacts on tribe members. The Baduy community in Lebak, Banten province, is made up of two groups, Baduy Dalam and Baduy Luar, totalling about 26,000 people. Baduy Luar people have adopted contemporary ways of living, with some relying on the internet to attract tourists and promote their handcrafts. But a letter from representatives of Baduy Dalam, dated from June and shown to the Guardian by a local official, requests that the authorities remove or divert internet signals supplied by surrounding towers. Baduy Dalam representatives also asked that officials limit, reduce or close down applications that can affect the young generation’s morals. “The existence of phones/smartphones that can be owned by everyone, including Baduy people, is considered to result in the declining morals of our generation that can access non-educating applications and contents,” the letter reads. Lebak official Anik Sakinah said that her office had forwarded the request to Indonesia’s ministry of communications and information. Ministry official Usman Kansong said his office had coordinated with several internet providers operating towers around Baduy Dalam, which were currently conducting field surveys. He also noted concerns of tourists using the internet in the area. “It’s technically feasible, obviously with some treatments such as moving the towers or reducing the signal capacity. We’re still waiting for survey results on what can be done next,” Usman said. Baduy Dalam community location map Steve Saerang, representing one of the providers, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, said it supported the Baduy people’s cultural preservation but believed the internet had positive impacts on the economy. He added that the company had run a field survey but refused to comment further. Sarpin, a Baduy Luar village official and tour guide, said that while he agreed with Baduy Dalam’s request to preserve its tradition, it should not affect the adjacent Baduy Luar and other villages. As well as businesses and tourism, Sarpin said, essential government services relied on the internet. “We are requesting better internet signals. Some areas still don’t have access to the internet. It’s becoming more important for us,” he said by phone. While the world’s largest archipelago has enjoyed rising internet penetration, reaching almost 80% of its 275 million people, an urban-rural divide persists when it comes to access to the web. Endroyono, an information technology and communications expert from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, said that technically, operators could easily limit access in certain areas. But he suggested that the government also provide education on the positive use of the internet along Baduy Dalam borders to help younger generations cope with the changing world. “Digital divide should be addressed by the government through socio-cultural approaches. Whether we realise it or not, every citizen should benefit from technological advancement and should be protected from its negative excesses,” he said. Dubbed the Amish of Asia, Baduy people inhabit a 5,000ha area, over half of which is protected forest. There are more than 2,000 Indigenous groups with dozens of millions of members in Indonesia, according to the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago, and while they have a big role in nature conservation, they are subject to discrimination and human rights violations, especially in land conflicts. A bill on the recognition and protection of Indigenous people’s rights has stalled since 2012, depriving them of legal certainty, which activists say is fuelled by conflicted business interests.

July 29, 2023