Date: May 1 (Monday) - 5 (Friday) 2023, 9:00am - 5:00pm PDT
Place: Conference Room 408, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD Campus, La Jolla, CA

Workshop Overview

The goal of the AIMS workshop is to bring together researchers, operators, and analysts interested in internet security research.

This workshop will discuss the ways to improve internet security, specifically through measurement.

Participation in this AIMS workshop is by invitation only.

Agenda

The workshop will begin at 9:00am PDT every day.

May 1 (Monday)

• 09:00 PDT: Introduction & Goals

  • Readings
    • Challenges in Measuring the Internet for the Public Interest
    • Trust Zones: A Path to a More Secure Internet Infrastructure
    • Year 1 Deliverable: Vulnerabilities and Data Needed to Study Them
  • Other Documents
    • Documentation of recent state of CAIDA APIs
    • Year 2 Progress Report
  • Platforms Considered in GMI Design Effort
    • Traffic
    • Routing (BGP)
    • DNS
    • Active Measurement
    • Kind-DNS: Raffaele
    • Using DNS to infer /annotation topology
    • Supporting Tools and APIs - Libipmeta, Ricky Mok (CAIDA), Brendon Jones (CAIDA)
    • DDOS measurement effort
  • Industry Partners
    • Domain Tools, DNS(DB), Telescope data, Kentik, IIJ

• 10:30-11:00 Agenda Bashing

  • Traffic/Telescope Day: Starts around noon
    • Telescope/Honeypots
    • UCSD-NT updates - Ricky Mok (CAIDA), Max Gao (UCSD CSE)
      • Dashboard
      • IIJ’s “BGP Hijack” project
      • Duke University’s STINGAR project
      • NICTER project
  • Working Lunch: 12:00-01:30
  • AmpPot + UCSD-NT - Mattijs Jonker (U Twente): 01:30-05:00
    • Integration into DNSAttackStream
  • RS-DOS Dashboard - Brendon Jones (CAIDA), Nick
  • Two-way Traffic Monitors
    • Other traffic analysis opportunities (Kentik, NTOP)
  • Discussion
  • Happy hour and Dinner (at House 2): 06:00-08:00

May 2 (Tuesday)

• 09:00 PDT: Review Takeaways from May 1

• 10:00 PDT: Active Measurements - Matthew Luckie (CAIDA), Brendon Jones (CAIDA)

• Lunch Break

• Afternoon:

  • Meta Issues
    • Infra workload
    • Measurement for specific purpose

May 3 (Wednesday)

• 09:00 PDT: Review Takeaways from May 2

• 09:30 PDT: Preliminary insights about redundancy in current topology measurements - Malte Tashiro (IIJ)

• 10:20 PDT: BGP.tools

• 11:00 PDT: Internet Health Report/Internet Yellow Pages - Romain Fontugne (IIJ), Malte Tashiro (IIJ)

  • IHR data archive: https://ihr-archive.iijlab.net/

• 12:30 PDT: Lunch Break

• 14:40 PDT: Intro to IHR/IYP

• 16:00 PDT: PacketLab - Bradley Huffaker (CAIDA), Ricky Mok (CAIDA), Jason Zhang (UCSD)

  • Reading: https://www.caida.org/catalog/papers/2022_packetlab_poster/packetlab_poster.pdf

May 4 (Thursday)

• 09:00 PDT: Review Takeaways from May 3

• 10:00 PDT: Internet Yellow Pages Examples, Future Data Sets (ITDK, Ark)

• 11:00 PDT: BGP

May 5 (Friday)

• 09:00 PDT: Review Takeaways from May 4

• Infrastructure Day - Mattijs Jonker (U Twente)

  • OpenIntel
  • ObservableHQ - Emile Aben (RIPE NCC)
  • Resilience in Ukraine - Emile Aben (RIPE NCC), kc claffy (CAIDA), Matthew Luckie (CAIDA)