Introduction
Solid4FutureProtocols: Using Solid to Enable Future Application Protocols
Biagio Boi and Franco Cirillo, University of Salerno, Italy | Sreenivasareddy Hulebeedureddy, AT&T Services Inc., USA
Networked communication plays a relevant role across modern computing domains, from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the Internet of Things (IoT). As data becomes increasingly distributed and user-centric, Solid offers a paradigm in which individuals and IoT devices can store data and algorithms within secure, access-controlled PODs. This approach reduces attack surfaces, mitigates vendor lock-in, and enhances data sovereignty. However, integrating future applications with Solid requires standardized, interoperable protocols capable of supporting decentralized data access patterns. Key challenges arise in aligning semantic models, security frameworks, and architectural assumptions between future architectures and Solid’s decentralized ecosystem. This session explores the intersection between communication protocols and the Solid framework, focusing on practical integration pathways, emerging protocol designs, and open research challenges. The goal is to outline future directions for secure, interoperable, and decentralized application protocols capable of leveraging Solid PODs as core data and computation endpoints.
Organizers
Technical Programme Committee (TPC)
- Marco De Santis, University of Salerno, Italy
Call for Contributions
Solid4FutureProtocols session aims to connect academic and industry expert to discuss about the usage and adaption of communcation protocols for Solid technologies. In fact, Solid can be used in multiple way, including LLMs and IoT devices, which translate in very different scenarios. The idea behind this session is to collect contributions related to the communication protocols for existing and future technologies leveraging Solid. This session is co-located with the Solid Symposium 2026, hosted in London, UK. Thus, this session comprises presentations from short papers and flash talks from extended abstracts in related areas not limited to the following:
- Interoperable Solid POD-to-X communications
- Security of communication Solid POD-to-X
- Protocol adaptation and optimization for AI/ML workloads, including, but not limited to LLMs
- Efficient communication patterns for IoT devices within Solid ecosystems
- Alignment of semantic models and decentralized architecture frameworks
Submission Instructions
Submitted papers must be in English, unpublished, and must not be currently under review for any other publication.
Short papers: Must have a maximum of 5-6 one-column pages, including references. Papers that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. Accepted papers will be presented at the session and considered to be published online as CEUR-Workshop Proceedings. Submissions must follow the CEUR style format (overleaf, zip-file).
Authors of accepted short papers will have the possibility to add 1 or 2 more pages to their paper to address the reviewers' comments for the camera ready version (in total the camera ready should have a maximum of 8 pages).
Extended abstracts: Must have a maximum of 1-2 one-column pages, including references. Accepted abstracts will give a flash talk at the session and will be published in the session webpage (if desired by the authors).
Link for the submission will be announced soon.
Detailed Program
To be announced.