Network of people and devices

[Nikita Borisov]

Main topic: Human centric networking - Networking centered on:
- Human relationships
- Human identities
Where:
- You can communicate with a person, not a device
- You can control/limit your communication to a social group (village, friends)
- Privacy, transparency, and accountability are managed in terms of relationships, and a large range of options in this space is possible
- Norms can be established
- Identities can have very different granularity, from SSN to "that guy over there" to "Mike I met last night" ...

Applications:
- Electronically mediated social networks
- Service to person interaction
- Social community organization / Communities of practice
- Elections
- Mobility -> focused on person, not device

Technologies:
- Identity management
- Voting
- Anonymous communications
- Biometrics / RFID tags / ???

Aspects of Human-centric networking:
- Organization
- Behavioral
- Regulation
- Collaboration
- Common Ground
- Environment

Questions:
- Are agents contained within this concept? In the future, almost certainly; right now, less clear.
- Is there a need to do *anything* at the network layer, rather than the application layer

[Nikita Borisov]

Some notes from the discussion of requirements;

How does our Use Case fit into this list of attributes?
Security
Does security include privacy?
What does security include?
Identity
What should your identity be?
I can have multiple identity
It's like public key cryptography
We need "rootable" identities

New requirements?
Persitence of relationship
Mobility
Policy
Green
Agents as Proxies
Usability and affordances