The Workshop on Internet-scale Software Technologies Internet-scale Namespaces August 19-20, 1999 University of California, Irvine Irvine, California, USA

TWIST 99 aims to gather participants from industry and academia who are researching or developing software technologies that scale to the Internet. Internet-scale namespaces have emerged as a crucial issue in scaling software and network technologies to the numbers of people, devices, and agents online. Every namespace, from MIME type to stock symbol to domain name, represents a bundle of political, economic, social, and technical decisions. Many namespaces are bumping into new limits to growth: human-friendly names for Web resources, the domain name service, public key infrastructures (PKI), and ad-hoc federation of embedded computers a la Jini, to name four. These are not merely limits of sheer massiveness: the latest generation of commercial directory servers claim to vend hundreds of millions of names with ease, as do planetary-scale Web search engines.

The TWIST series provides a forum for discussion and enables quick dissemination of current ideas within a well-targeted audience. The goals of the workshop series are developing a better understanding among the different communities of interest, improved definition of requirements for scaling to the Internet, better appreciation of the application domains that require or benefit from this approach, and suggestions for fruitful research directions.

This engaging two-day workshop is being convened with the following goals in mind:

• Survey the diversity of namespaces already in use at Internet scale,
• Identify the uniquely Internet-Scale issues of namespace management, beyond sheer size scaling to include political, economic, and technological limits,
• Discuss namespace management in the context of application domains, with a particular emphasis on electronic commerce,
• Debate potential approaches for building self-organizing solutions for domain naming, hierarchical public key infrastructure, resource discovery, and device federation.

• Control: who has control over the namespace;
• Mobility: how rapidly a name to address binding can change;
• Locality: the same name having different meaning for different speakers depending on geographic, or other context;
• Interoperability: standard resolution protocols, and their mechanisms for generating network effects.

TWIST 99 is a two day event with a single track of invited speakers structured as:

Sam Sun, CNRI, Handle System Namespace and its Service Definition

Each presentation will be approximately 30 minutes long with 15 minutes for Q/A (total 45 minutes each).

The Final Program is available. Photos from the workshop are also available.

TWIST '99 is a follow on to the highly successful Workshop on Internet Scale Event Notification (WISEN) held on July 13-14, 1998 at UC Irvine. In response to WISEN's positive reception, IRUS has evolved the event into a workshop series with a broadened scope.

Welcome to TWIST 99!
(Twister mats are optional.)

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Gregory Alan Bolcer, Endeavors Technology, Inc., gbolcer@endtech.com

Rohit Khare, University of California, Irvine, rohit@ics.uci.edu

David S. Rosenblum, Chair, University of California, Irvine, dsr@ics.uci.edu

Richard N. Taylor, University of California, Irvine, taylor@ics.uci.edu

E. James Whitehead, University of California, Irvine, ejw@ics.uci.edu

    Technical

Debra A. Brodbeck, University of California, Irvine, brodbeck@ics.uci.edu

    Administrative

Aileen R. Broccardo, University of California, Irvine, aileen@ics.uci.edu

Aprille Harris, University of California, Irvine, irus2@ics.uci.edu

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Debra A. Brodbeck
Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
+1 (949) 824-2260
brodbeck@ics.uci.edu

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Irvine Research Unit in Software
Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3425