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The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) supports research of importance to the evolution of the Internet protocols, applications, architecture, and technology.

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We had a great #QuantumInternet session at @irtf.org in Montreal last week.

Video now available at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zut5...
IETF 124: Quantum Internet Research Group (QIRG) 2025-11-03 14:30
YouTube video by IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
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November 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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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.
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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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.
November 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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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/...
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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/...
November 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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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/...
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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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/
October 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025
www.irtf.org/anrp/
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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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...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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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/
July 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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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/
July 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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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
Travel Grants
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July 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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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/...
July 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Side meeting on (Inter) Networking for AI at IETF-123 in Madrid today, at 19:00 today:
github.com/IRTF-net4AI/...
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
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July 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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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...
July 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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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.
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July 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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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/...
July 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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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...
Agenda IETF123: hrpc
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July 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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...
July 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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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/...
July 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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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/
July 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Deadline extended to 29 April 2025 – still time to submit your papers
irtf.org Internet Research Task Force @irtf.org · Mar 4
Call for papers: ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 2025 www.irtf.org/anrw/2025/

Please consider submitting your work to ANRW 2025, which will co-locate with #IETF123 in Madrid in the week of 19-25 July 2025.

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ANRW 2025 Applied Networking Research Workshop
April 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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...
March 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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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/
Travel Grants
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March 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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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
IETF 122 preliminary & interim materials
datatracker.ietf.org
March 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM