A Responsible Internet to Increase Trust in the Digital World
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A Responsible Internet to Increase Trust in the Digital World Cristian Hesselman1,2 · Paola Grosso3 · Ralph Holz2 · Fernando Kuipers4 · Janet Hui Xue5 · Mattijs Jonker2 · Joeri de Ruiter1 · Anna Sperotto2 · Roland van Rijswijk‑Deij2,6 · Giovane C. M. Moura1,4 · Aiko Pras2 · Cees de Laat3 Received: 20 June 2020 / Revised: 17 August 2020 / Accepted: 19 August 2020 / Published online: 7 September 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Policy makers in regions such as Europe are increasingly concerned about the trustworthiness and sovereignty of the foundations of their digital economy, because it often depends on systems operated or manufactured elsewhere. To help curb this problem, we propose the novel notion of a responsible Internet, which provides higher degrees of trust and sovereignty for critical service providers (e.g., power grids) and all kinds of other users by improving the transparency, accountability, and controllability of the Internet at the network-level. A responsible Internet accomplishes this through two new distributed and decentralized systems. The first is the Network Inspection Plane (NIP), which enables users to request measurement-based descriptions of the chains of network operators (e.g., ISPs and DNS and cloud providers) that handle their data flows or could potentially handle them, including the relationships between them and the properties of these operators. The second is the Network Control Plane (NCP), which allows users to specify how they expect the Internet infrastructure to handle their data (e.g., in terms of the security attributes that they expect chains of network operators to have) based on the insights they gained from the NIP. We discuss research directions and starting points to realize a responsible Internet by combining three currently largely disjoint research areas: large-scale measurements (for the NIP), open source-based programmable networks (for the NCP), and policy making (POL) based on the NIP and driving the NCP. We believe that a responsible Internet is the next stage in the evolution of the Internet and that the concept is useful for clean slate Internet systems as well. Keywords Trust · Digital sovereignty · Responsible Internet · Cybersecurity · Transparency · Accountability · Controllability
* Cristian Hesselman [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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Journal of Network and Systems Management (2020) 28:882–922
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1 Introduction The Internet has evolved from a local network for a small group of experts in the early 1970s to a global, continuously evolving infrastructure that supports a wide range of services and products that almost all businesses, governments, and citizens depend on today, even more so after the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak. However, policy makers in regions such as Europe are increasingly concerned about the trustworthiness and sovereignty of the foundations of their digital economy [1–3], because it often depends on systems manufactured or operated elsewhere. For
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