DocumentCode :
2217638
Title :
A historic name-trail service
Author :
Maniatis, Petros ; Baker, Mary
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
fYear :
2003
fDate :
9-10 Oct. 2003
Firstpage :
88
Lastpage :
99
Abstract :
We consider the mobility of personal online identifiers. People change the identifiers through which they are reachable online as they change jobs or residences or Internet service providers. This kind of personal mobility makes reaching people online error-prone. As people move, they do not always know who or what has cached their now obsolete identifiers so as to inform them of the move. Use of these old identifiers can cause delivery failure of important messages, or worse, may cause delivery of messages to unintended recipients. For example, a sensitive email message sent to my now obsolete work address at a former place of employment may reach my unfriendly former boss instead of me. We describe HINTS, a historic name-trail service. This service provides a persistent way to name willing participants online using today´s transient online identifiers. HINTS accomplishes this by connecting together the names a person uses along with the times during which those names were valid for that person. A correspondent who wishes to reach a mobile person can use an obsolete online name for that person, qualified with a time at which the online name was successfully used; HINTS resolves this historic name to a current valid online identifier for the intended recipient, if that recipient has chosen to leave a name trail in HINTS.
Keywords :
IP networks; Internet; data privacy; electronic mail; electronic messaging; mobile computing; security of data; HINTS; Internet service providers; data security; email message; historic name-trail service; message failure delivery; mobile IP; mobile person; personal online identifiers; Data security; Electronic mail; Internet; Message systems;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 2003. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1995-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/MCSA.2003.1240770
Filename :
1240770
Link To Document :
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