Internet Research Task Force

🌏 IRTF Diversity Travel Grants support early-career academics & PhD students from under-represented groups attending IRTF at IETF-128 in Kuala Lumpur, March 2027. ⏰ Apply by Nov 27, 2026—earlier than usual to allow more time for visas. Details: www.irtf.org/travelgrants/

www.irtf.org/anrp/ Submit nominations for the 2027 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 23, 2026

📄 My summary of the Internet Research Task Force (#IRTF) activities at #IETF126. The report covers ANRW, the IRTF Open Meeting, and all 14 Research Groups – from AI networking and Internet architecture to routing, privacy, sustainability, and quantum networking. 🔗 dirk-kutscher.info/irtf/ietf-126/

📄 I just published my summary of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) activities at #IETF126. The report covers ANRW, the IRTF Open Meeting, and all 14 Research Groups, highlighting current Internet research from AI networking to quantum networking. 🔗 dirk-kutscher.info/irtf/ietf-126/

The following IRTF research groups are meeting today at IETF-126 in Vienna: - Global Access to the Internet for All - Sustainability and the Internet - Measurements and Analysis for Protocols - Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes Agendas: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/...

The following IRTF research groups are meeting today at IETF-126 in Vienna: - Global Access to the Internet for All - Sustainability and the Internet - Measurements and Analysis for Protocols - Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes Agendas: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/...

The following IRTF research groups are meeting today at IETF-126 in Vienna: - Crypto Forum - Internet Congestion Control - Information-Centric Networking See datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/... for meetings agendas.

The following IRTF research groups are meeting today at IETF-126 in Vienna: - Systems and Protocol Aspects for Circumstellar Environments - Quantum Internet - Path-Aware Networking - Privacy Enhancements and Assessments See datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/... for meetings agendas.

Another excellent edition of the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop getting underway at #IETF126 in Vienna www.irtf.org/anrw/2026/progra...

Keynote by Prof. Dr. Johanna Ullrich from the Interdisciplinarty Transformation University Austria on "The Internet A Critical Infrastructure". www.irtf.org/anrw/2026/ datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/...

ANRW-2026 kicked off at IETF-126 in Vienna by TPC Chairs Thomas Schmidt and Suresh Krishnan. www.irtf.org/anrw/2026/

The IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) will be awarded to two researchers at IETF-126 in Vienna next week: 1) Rumaisa Habib for her work on formalizing dependence of web infrastructure 2) Diwen Xue for his work on fingerprinting deep packet inspection devices www.irtf.org/anrp/

The ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop will take place in Vienna at IETF-126 on Monday, July 20th. Check out the program at www.irtf.org/anrw/2026/pr... and see www.ietf.org/meeting/126/ for online participation options.

We are offering a number of Diversity Travel Grants to support early-career academics and PhD students to attend the IRTF meetings co-located with the IETF-127 Meeting in San Francisco in November 2027. More details at www.irtf.org/travelgrants/ Application deadline: July 03, 2026

The Deadline for ANRW-2026 has been extended until May 4th: Submit your best applied networking research work to ANRW-2026! Check out the Call for Papers: www.irtf.org/anrw/2026/

Submit your best applied networking research work to ANRW-2026! Check out the Call for Papers: www.irtf.org/anrw/2026/

We are pleased to offer a number of Diversity Travel Grants to support early-career academics and PhD students from under-represented groups to attend the IRTF meetings co-located with the IETF-126 Meeting in Vienna, Austria, in July 2026. irtf.org/travelgrants/

We have announced the winners of the 2026 Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) of the IRTF. Congratulations to all winners – we are looking forward to an excellent ANRP program in 2026! www.irtf.org/anrp/

We had a great #QuantumInternet session at @irtf.org in Montreal last week. Video now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zut5...

Ready for an electrifying look at a greener internet? Join IRTF SUSTAIN RG on Friday in Montreal, with talks on a unique dataset of routers' energy demand and how to reduce it, sunsetting 3G in an operational network, carbon accounting, and augmenting the Path Energy Traffic Ratio API.

IRTF DINRG is meeting today at 14:30 in Montreal to discuss recent central Internet infrastructure outage events, new ideas for combining privacy and decentralization for Encrypted Client Hello (ECN), decentralized system design, and AT protocol design challenges.

IRTF at IETF-124 today: - Network Management: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/... - Usable Formal Methods: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/... - Decentralization of the Internet: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/... - Global Access to the Internet for All: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/...

IRTF groups that are meeting today at IETF-124: - Quantum Internet Research Group: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/... - Crypto Forum: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/... - Human Rights Protocol Considerations: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/... - IRTFOPEN: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/...

Looking forward to an exciting IRTFOPEN meeting at IETF-124 next week Monday with two ANRP winner talks by Jacob Ginesin and Saksham Agarwal. In addition, we invited Renata Teixeira for a keynote on Netflix Streaming over Starlink, datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/...

We are pleased to offer a number of Diversity Travel Grants to support early-career academics and PhD students from under-represented groups to attend the IRTF meetings co-located with the IETF-125 Meeting in Shenzhen, China, in March 2026. irtf.org/travelgrants/

Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025 www.irtf.org/anrp/

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/...

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/...