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The #IETF123 @irtf.org Open Session featured Haarika Manda and Hendrick Chech presenting their ANRP-winning research on Internet access inequities and LEO satellite network measurements and analysis. Watch the full presentations: www.ietf.org/blog/ietf123...

Congratulations to Haarika Manda from the University of California Santa Barbara for winning the IRTF's Applied Networking Research Prize for her work on studying Internet Access Inequities in the US.

Paper and presentation here: irtf.org/anrp/

Congratulations to Hendrik Cech from Technical University Munich for winning the IRTF's Applied Networking Research Prize for his work on Starlink performance measurements.

Paper and presentation here: irtf.org/anrp/

We are pleased to offer a number of Diversity Travel Grants to support early-career academics and PhD students to attend the IRTF meetings co-located with the IETF-124 Meeting in Montreal, Canada, in November 2025. More details at irtf.org/travelgrants/

Application deadline: August 1st

At IETF-123 in Madrid, the following IRTF groups are meeting today:

Measurement and Analysis for Protocols with a special session on AI Crawler Traffic Impacts: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...

Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...

GitHub - IRTF-net4AI/IETF123-sidemeeting: Github repository for Inet4AI side meeting @IETF 123 Github repository for Inet4AI side meeting @IETF 123 - IRTF-net4AI/IETF123-sidemeeting

Side meeting on (Inter) Networking for AI at IETF-123 in Madrid today, at 19:00 today:
github.com/IRTF-net4AI/...

Laurent Vanbever opening the IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop at IETF-123 with his keynote on "Verifying configurations was the easy part: my ongoing quest toward correct network operations and musings about how AI could help".

irtf.org/anrw/2025/pr...

At IETF-123 in Madrid, the following IRTF groups are meeting this afternoon:

- Decentralization of the Internet: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
- Human Rights Protocol Considerations: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...

See www.ietf.org/meeting/123/ for online participation options.

IETF-123 has started in Madrid. The following IRTF groups are meeting this morning:

- Quantum Internet: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
- Thing-to-Thing: github.com/t2trg/2025-i...
- Path Aware Networking: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...

At IETF-123 next week, the IRTF's HRPC research group will host talks about the constraints and considerations of legal frameworks in armed conflict, about censorship in Iran, and a talk by Maria Farrell, author of "We Need to Rewild the Internet.
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/agenda-1...

The Applied Networking Research Workshop 2025, co-located with IETF-123 in Madrid, will take place on Tuesday, July 22nd. I will feature a keynote by Laurent Vanbever and exciting paper presentations.
Check out the program here: irtf.org/anrw/2025/pr...

At the upcoming IRTF-123 meeting in Madrid, the IRTF MAP Research Group is going to hold a special meeting on AI Crawler Traffic Impacts. See the agenda here:
datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...

We are pleased to offer a number of Diversity Travel Grants to support early-career academics and PhD students to attend the IRTF meetings co-located with the IETF-124 Meeting in Montreal, Canada, in November 2025.
More details at www.irtf.org/travelgrants/

Deadline extended to 29 April 2025 – still time to submit your papers

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open session at #IETF122 featured Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) presentations on using Large Language Models (LLMs) to support network configuration and on secure collaborative path control in BGP: Watch: www.ietf.org/blog/ietf122...

Finally, a reminder that today is the deadline to apply for diversity travel grants to attend IRTF events co-located with #IETF123 in Madrid in July 2025 www.irtf.org/travelgrants/

If you missed any of the IRTF meeting at #IETF122 this week, materials are archived at datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/mate... and video recordings are at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... – all open access, free of charge

Also today, at 15:00 Indochina Time, the Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group will discuss Indigenous 5G in India, Ethics in Digital Public Infrastructure, and Intimate Partner Violence Digital Considerations datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

The final day of IRTF meetings at #IETF122 starts shortly, with the Network Management Research Group discussing network digital twins and AI for network management datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

Starting shortly, at 09:30 Indochina Time, the IRTF Open Meeting with the Applied Networking Research Prize talks by Changjie Wang and Henry Birge-Lee. Streaming live for those who can’t make it in-person at www.ietf.org/live/ietf122...

Later today, at 15:30 Indochina Time, the Privacy Enhancements and Assessments Research Group will discuss how to authenticate application messages in MLS with a proposal for more efficient, post-quantum, and anonymous blocklistable techniques
datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

Also in progress the Measurement and Analysis of Protocols Research Group with a wide range of network measurement talks including measuring collateral damage in RPKI ROVs, anycast flipping, L4S congestion control, and more datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

Happening now at #IETF122 is the Global Access to the Internet for All Research Group, with talks about LoRa mesh networks and mobile air pollution monitoring datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

And finally today, at 17:00 Indochina Time, the path-aware networking group will have an update on the SCION network architecture and a discussion of path awareness in QUIC datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

Later today, at 13:00 Indochina Time, the Sustainability and the Internet group will have its first meeting, discussing sustainable network architectures, energy proportionality, and the full lifecycle datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

The IRTF meetings at #IETF122 start today at 09:30 Indochina Time. The Quantum Internet RG has a review of research in quantum communication in Thailand, plus talks on networks for modular quantum systems, quantum advantage without quantum memories, and more datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

And finally today, at 17:00 Indochina Time, the Information Centric Networking Research Group has a talk on Offline Content Access with NDN and D2D Communication plus updates on FLIC, CCN, Reflexive forwarding, and more datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

This afternoon, at 13:00 Indochina Time, the Crypto Forum Research Group has a packed agenda including KEM Combiners, Blind BBS and BBS Pseudonyms, Anonymous Rate-Limited Credentials, and Hybrid PQ/T KEMs datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

Also at 09:30 Indochina Time, the Internet Congestion Control Research Group has a keynote on Challenges in Networking for AIML clusters by Costin Raiciu, and talks on the impact of LEO mobility on congestion control, cloud gaming QoS, Confucius AQM, and more datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...

The Decentralisation of the Internet Research Group meets starting at 09:30 (Indochina Time), with talks on IPFS, Bluesky, and comparing application implementations over TCP/IP and NDN datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/...