Davis Social Links: P2P, Online Social Network, and Autonomous Community
S. Felix Wu
In this talk, we will discuss the impact of Internet architecture design on network security. In the past few years, there have been many attempts to develop solution to protect our networked system against large-scale attacks such as worm, DDoS, and spam. However, it seems to us (and more and more clearly) that most, if not all, of the proposed solutions are not likely to be effective, given the growth of attacks in numbers and depth. Therefore, the network community has been trying to understand the fundamental issues and the root cause for these large-scale network attacks. One possible idea, currently being actively developed at UC Davis, is called DSL (Davis Social Links). Under DSL, we integrate the concepts of P2P, social networks, and trust management into the network layer, while we remove the requirement of global network identity (e.g., IP addresses or even email addresses, for the context of spam). While we are still in a very early stage regarding DSL, we will go through a few examples of DSL as well as technical considerations.