End-to-End Semantic Accountability Project

Site Visit

DRAFT Agenda

13 July 2007

Bleil Boardroom, 32-G601
MIT Stata Center
Cambridge, MA USA

Logistics

Timing: 0830 - 1300

Coordinates: IRC: irc.w3.org#e2esa

Attendees Expected:

• Hal Abelson, MIT
• Lee Beausoleil, DTO
• Tim Berners-Lee, MIT
• John Farrell, DTO
• Joan Feigenbaum, Yale
• Chris Hanson, MIT
• Jim Hendler, RPI
• Lalana Kagal, MIT
• Carl Landwehr, DTO
• Gerry Sussman, MIT
• Walt Tirenin, AFRL
• Daniel Weitzner, MIT

Schedule

Boot up [8:15 - 8:30]

Welcome and Introductions [8:30 - 8:45]

• introductions
• meeting goals
• other logistics (timing, meals, etc.)

A. Project Overview - Daniel Weitzner [8:45 - 9:15]

• Research Goals
• Impact
• Project Organization

B. Key Research Components

[15 minute presentations and 15 minutes for discussion of each.]

1. Policy Language Outline (L. Kagal) [9:15 - 10:45]
   • presentation: requirements of policy language and sample syntax
   • discussion
2. System Architecture (C. Hanson) [9:45 - 10:15]
   • presentation: Current architecture and system components
   • discussion
3. Web Architecture Lessons for Accountability Systems (J. Hendler) [10:15 - 10:45]
   • presentation
   • discussion
4. Accountable Systems in the Context of Security Research -- What's different this time. (J. Feigenbaum) [11:00 - 11:30]
   • presentation
   • discussion

C. Project Metrics [11:30 - 12:00]

D. Technology Transfer [12:15-12:45]

E. Fiscal and Project Management Topics [12:45 - 1:00]

F. Adjourn [1:00]

Breaks:

10:45 - 11:00 morning break

12:30 - 1:00 lunch break

Background Reading

• Weitzner, Abelson, Berners-Lee, Feigenbaum, Hendler, Sussman, Information Accountability, MIT CSAIL Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2007 (13 June 2007) [DSpace Handle]
• TAMI-Portia Workshop report
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, and Daniel Weitzner, Using Semantic Web Technologies for Policy Management on the Web, 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 16 - 20, 2006.
• Hanson, Berners-Lee, Kagal, Sussman, Weitzner, Data-Purpose Algebra: Modeling Data Usage Policies, IEEE Policy07
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, and Daniel Weitzner, Self-describing Delegation Networks for the Web, IEEE Workshop on Policy for Distributed Systems and Networks (IEEE Policy), 5 - 7 June 2006.
• Weitzner, Hendler, Berners-Lee, Connolly, Creating the Policy-Aware Web: Discretionary, Rules-based Access for the World Wide Web