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/

IETF 124: Quantum Internet Research Group (QIRG) 2025-11-03 14:30 YouTube video by IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force

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/

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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/...