Welcome to 2STiC

AMS-IX, NDIX, NL-ix, NLnet Labs, Radboud University, SIDN Labs, SURF, TU Delft, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Twente work together in the joint research programme called 2STiC (pronounced "to stick"), which is short for Security, Stability and Transparency in inter-network Communication.

2STiC's goal is to develop and evaluate new or improved mechanisms that increase the security, stability and transparency of internet communications, both through extensions of today’s Internet as well as through emerging internet architectures, such as SCION, RINA, and NDN. Our long-term objective is to establish a collaborative research centre in the field of trusted and resilient Internet infrastructures that helps putting the Dutch and European networking communities in a leading position in the field.

We wrote a joint blog when we started back in 2019 in which we discuss our initiative in more detail, for instance in terms of 2STiC’s goals, motivation, timeliness and research topics.