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The 2011 workshop on DNS HEALTH & SECURITY (DNS EASY 2011)
October 18-20, 2011 - GCSEC headquarter, Rome, Italy

http://dnseasy.gcsec.org

A joined event GCSEC - ICANN - DNS-OARC
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SCOPE

The Domain Name System is the core of the Internet infrastructure. The dependency of Critical Infrastructures (CIs) control and governance on ICT is increasing. As a result, the DNS will more and more going to play a relevant role also in the daily life of the citizen. A failure of DNS could have a dramatic impact on a national and international critical infrastructure, can impact on the vital services of a country and of other countries and for that reason the DNS must be considered by itself a critical infrastructure.

GCSEC, in cooperation with ICANN and DNS-OARC, organizes the 2011 Workshop on DNS health and security (DNS EASY-2011). The DNS-EASY workshop aims at bringing together researchers and professionals from academia, industry and governmental Agencies as well as representatives from across DNS ecosystem stakeholder groups (technical development, network operators, enterprise users, and security experts) to discuss all different aspects of the DNS Health and Security and its impact on the modern society.

The DNS EASY 2011 co-locates the 3rd edition of the Global Annual Symposium on DNS Security, Stability and Resiliency and the first edition of the Workshop on DNS Health and Security. Following the tradition of the 2009 and 2010 editions of the Global Annual Symposium on DNS-SSR the DNS-EASY is organized in two parts. The first part will be devoted to research results, R&D applications and industrial experiences. The second part (the Global Annual Symposium on DNS-SSR), for invitation only, will involve DNS ecosystem stakeholder groups in discussions on operational and policy challenges related to the DNS health and security.

Scientific contributions will be used to support the discussion of the second part of the workshop. Authors are solicited to contribute to the Workshop by submitting research papers, work-in-progress reports, R&D project results, surveys and industrial experiences describing significant advances in the following areas:

- DNS Security, Resilience, Stability and Performance metrics (DNS Health).
- DNS Infrastructure resilience and QoS
- DNS Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities
- DNS Defense
- DNS and Cybercrime
- Impact of DNS on Critical Infrastructures (Energy Systems, Finance etc.)
- DNSSEC (all aspects)
- DNS Infrastructure Modeling & Simulation
- DNS Operations Vs DNS Health and Security
- DNS Governance Vs DNS Health and Security


PUBLICATIONS

All submissions will be subjected to a blind review by at least three reviewers.
Papers should be up to 12 pages in English, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. It is planned to publish conference post-proceedings by Springer Verlag in the LNCS Series containing the final version of the papers addressing the comments of the reviewers
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the Workshop and present the paper.
Paper submission will be done via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dnseasy2011.
To submit a paper, please follow the specific instructions available on Easychair website.

Submitted paper (in PDF or PostScript format), which should follow the LLNCS template by Springer, must start with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. However, it should be anonymised with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, nor obvious references.


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission of papers: August 5, 2011 (Extended)
Notification to authors: August 15, 2011
Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: November 15, 2011


VENUE

The workshop will be hosted in the GCSEC- Global Cyber Security Center headquarter, Viale Europa 175, 00144, Rome, Italy


COMMITTEES

General Co-Chairs
Andrea Rigoni, GCSEC
John L. Crain, ICANN

Program Chair
Igor Nai Fovino, GCSEC
Emiliano Casalicchio, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Steering Committee
Alain Patrick Aina, Technologies Réseaux et Solutions

Roy Arends, Nominet
Emiliano Casalicchio, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
John L. Crain, ICANN
James M. Galvin, Afilias
Peter Koch, DENIC eG
Matt Larson, Verisign Inc.
Wayne MacLaurin, DNS-OARC
Paul Mockapetris, Nominum
Dave Piscitello, ICANN
Rod Rasmussen, IID Internet Identity

Technical Program Committee
Bernhard Ager, Technische Universität Berlin, FG INET
Mustaque Ahamad, Georgia Tech Information Security Center
Cristina Alcaraz Tello, University of Malaga
Nevil Brownlee, The University of Auckland
Emiliano Casalicchio, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
David Conrad, Virtualized LLC.
Steve Crocker, Shinkuro Inc.
Joao Damas, Bond Internet Systems
Fabrizio D'Amore, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Enrico Gregori, IIT-CNR
Xiaodong Lee, CNNIC / Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dan Massey, Colorado State University
Douglas Maughan, Department of Homeland Security, USA
Eric Osterweil, Verisign Inc.
Roberto Perdisci, University of Georgia
Steve Uhlig, Technische Universität Berlin, FG INET
Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium
Nicholas Weaver, ICSI UC Berkeley
Stephen D. Wolthusen, Royal Holloway, University of London

Publicity Chair
Angelo Migliorisi, GCSEC

Organizing Committee
Elena Agresti, GCSEC
Salvatore Di Blasi, GCSEC
Angelo Migliorisi, GCSEC
Nuria Tascon, GCSEC


For further information, contact GCSEC at dns-easy2011@gcsec.org or visit http://dnseasy.gcsec.org