KISMET Project Overview

We will create a knowledge network that will improve the security and functioning of three key but inherently vulnerable systems that underpin all activity on the Internet: the addressing, routing, and naming systems. Lack of attention to security in early design decisions, persistent disagreement about the best path to improvement, and lowest-cost operational practices surrounding these three layers have allowed malicious actors to execute and scale harmful misbehavior including interception and disruption of traffic, denial of service and phishing attacks, and distribution and execution of malware.

See the KISMET Executive Summary and the OKN-KISMET proposal for in-depth specifics.

At the NSF Convergence Accelerator Pilot EXPO 2020, kc claffy introduces the KISMET project:

Publications

• Workshop on Internet Economics (WIE-KISMET 2019) report, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Jan 2020.

Presentations

• Towards an Open Knowledge Network about Properties of the Internet Identifier Systems, NIST, Jan 2020.

Workshops

• WIE-KISMET 2019 - Workshop on Internet Economics: Knowledge of Internet Structure: Measurement, Epistemology, and Technology
• AIMS-KISMET 2020 - Workshop on Active Internet Measurements: Knowledge of Internet Structure: Measurement, Epistemology, and Technology

Funding support

Support for the Knowledge of Internet Structure: Measurement, Epistemology, and Technology project is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant C-ACCEL OIA-1937165 Knowledge of Internet Structure: Measurement Epistemology and Technology. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of NSF.