<h2>ACM Conext-2024 Workshop on the Decentralization of the Internet</h2>


<p> Recent years have witnessed the consolidation and centralization of the Internet applications, services, as well as the infrastructure. This centralization has economic aspects and factors as well as technical ones. The effects are often characterized as detrimental to the original goals of the Internet, such as permissionless innovation, as well as to society at large, due to the amount of (personal) data that is obtained and capitalized on by large platforms.</p>

<p>This workshop is intended to provide a forum for academic researchers to present and discuss on-going work on this topic and to create greater awareness in the larger community for this topic. The workshop would solicit work on specific topics including but not limited to:</p>
<ul>
  <li>investigation of the root causes of Internet centralization, and articulation of the impacts of the market economy, architecture and protocol designs, as well as government regulations;</li>
  <li>measurement of the Internet centralization and the consequential societal impacts;
  characterization and assessment of observed Internet centralization;</li>
  <li>new research topics and technical solutions for decentralized system and application development;</li>
  <li>decentralized (cloud-independent) distributed system design;</li>
  <li>protocols and algorithms for decentralized distributed systems; and</li>
  <li>decentralized security and trust architectures and protocols for real-world Internet systems.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Submission Instructions</h3>
<ul>
  <li> <b>Workshop paper submission deadline: August 16, 2024 </b></li>
  <li> <b>Paper acceptance notification: September 6, 2024 </b></li>
  <li> <b>Camera ready deadline: September 27, 2024 </b></li>
  <li>Maximum paper length (without references): 6 pages </li>
  <li>Single-blind review process, i.e., papers should be complete with respect to author information and links to artifacts</li>
</ul>
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<p>Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, excluding references and appendices, in two-column 10pt ACM format. Papers must include author names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to present and discuss their work at the workshop.</p>


<p>Submission site: <a href="https://conext2024-din.hotcrp.named-data.net/" target="_blank"> https://conext2024-din.hotcrp.named-data.net/ </a></p>

<h3>Organizers</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="mailto:dku@hkust-gz.edu.cn">Dirk Kutscher, HKUST(GZ)</a></li>
  <li><a href="mailto:lixia@cs.ucla.edu">Lixia Zhang, UCLA</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Technical Program Committee</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Alex Afanasyev, FIU </li>
  <li>Gautam Akiwate, Stanford University</li>
  <li>Onur Ascigil, Lancaster University</li>
  <li>Wes Hardaker, ISI</li>
  <li>Geoff Houston, APNIC</li>
  <li>Christian Huitema, Private Octopus</li>
  <li>Martin Kleppmann, University of Cambridge </li>
  <li>Michal Król, City University of London</li>
  <li>Zane Ma, Oregon State University</li>
  <li>Mark Nottingham Cloudflare</li>
  <li>Thomas Schmidt HAW Hamburg</li>
  <li>Gareth Tyson, HKUST(GZ)</li>
  <li>Lan Wang, University of Memphis</li>
  <li>Matthias Wählisch, TU Dresden</li>
  <li>Beichuan Zhang, University of Arizona</li>
</ul>

<h3>Sponsors</h3>
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