MURI Telecon 2005-10-12

Goals

• Discussion of reviewer comments
• Timeline for writing the proposal
• Agreement on high level thrusts + discussion of objectives/milestones

Notes

• Present: Mani, Pablo, Eric

Round Robin:

• Mani
  • Critical comments on safety and security; what does this mean?
  • What does safety mean? Should we emphasize more what we are doing (its basically in there). Address with more detail
  • Security is a hole in our current plan; Rich Doyle at JPL is interested in this. Security = man in the middle attack
  • SRI people have done work in security
  • ACTION: decide whether we want to include anything along these lines
    • Some aspects we can incorporate into our framework

• Pablo
  • Need to figure out what they meant by security
  • We should be able to get adversarial action within objective #6 in a game theory-style approach
  • We probably need more than that - eg (from Mani): what happens when someone joins the network. How do we get the key to them?

• Eric Klavins
  • Rada Pravendrin at UW is security in network protocols
  • Reviewers may not know what they mean by safety and security; maybe we just need to recognize that there are issues (airplane out of sky) and discuss them
  • Include an example security problem that we look at (eg, making a system unobservable)
  • Probabalistic reasoning - very interested in this. We should sort through what we want to do
  • Graph grammar for adversarial environments (composition of grammars)

General comments

• Section 3: Flesh out probabalistc section quite a lot. Lots of interest.
• Section 6: Pablo to flesh out + Eric on graph grammers

Timeline and Proposal Process

• Pablo going to Singapore on 28 October
• Running set of examples throughout the proposals
  • Specification of tasks for MVWT
  • Workshop format; follow up one year later

Next Steps

• Outline of proposal: RMM to generate draft today and send out
  • Comments, additions, etc due by 16 Oct (Sun), 8 pm PsT
• Meetings/telecons with partners: RMM to send out e-mail today and set these up for next week