Quo Vadis Network Anonymity?

The Internet promises an ever-increasing variety of services available anytime, almost anywhere, to anyone of just about any experience level. Thus, in many respects, the virtual world has become a viable alternative to our real world. With all of the convenience and freely-available information that this virtual world provides, it has one major problem: in the real-world people can nearly always exert some control over their privacy. However, on the Internet, users have few controls, if any, over the privacy of their actions. The only path towards enabling true network privacy is to provide anonymity. Anonymity services can allow users to carry out their activities anonymously on the Internet. In this work we investigate the following technical question: how should the anonymity technology be integrated into the Internet?