SRUTI' 06: Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet USENIX Workshop (July 6-7, 2006 in San Jose, CA) URL: http://www.usenix.org/events/sruti06/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet is under increasing attack with unwanted traffic in the form of spam, distributed denial of service, virus, worms, etc. Unwanted traffic on the Internet has manifested itself as attacks via many protocols (IP, TCP, DNS, BGP, and HTTP) and popular applications (e.g., email, Web). Often, these attacks have a direct economic motivation. SRUTI seeks research on the unwanted traffic problem that looks across the protocol stack, examines attack commonalities, and investigates how various solutions interact and whether they can be combined to increase security. Original research, promising ideas, and steps toward practical solutions at all levels are sought. We look for ideas in networking and systems, and insights from other areas such as databases, data mining, and economics. SRUTI aims to bring academic and industrial research communities together with those who face the problems at the operational level. SRUTI is a one-and-a-half-day event. Each session chair will play the role of a discussant and present a summary of the papers in the session and a state-of-the-art synopsis of the topic. The workshop will be highly interactive, with substantial time devoted to questions and answers. Submissions must contribute to improving the current understanding of unwanted traffic and/or suggestions for reducing it. The Proceedings of the workshop will be published. To ensure a productive workshop environment, attendance will be by invitation and/or acceptance of paper submission. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: Thursday, April 20, 2006, 0400 UTC Notification of acceptance: Thursday, May 18, 2006 Final papers due: Tuesday, June 6, 2006 PROGRAM CHAIR Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University PROGRAM COMMITTEE Harald Alvestrand, Cisco Dan Boneh, Stanford University Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University Anja Feldmann, Technische Universität München John Ioannidis, Columbia University Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T LabsResearch Chris Morrow, UUnet Vern Paxson, ICIR/ICSI Niels Provos, Google Eric Rescorla, Network Resonance Tara Whalen, Dalhousie University PUBLICITY CHAIR Lakshminarayanan Subramanian STEERING COMMITTEE Dina Katabi, MIT Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T LabsResearch Ellie Young, USENIX Clem Cole, Ammasso, USENIX Liaison