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/
We had a great #QuantumInternet session at @irtf.org in Montreal last week.
Video now available at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zut5...
Rod Van Meter
Internet Research Task Force
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
Internet Research Task Force
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/...
Submit your best applied networking research work to ANRW-2026! Check out the Call for Papers: www.irtf.org/anrw/2026/
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/
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.
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/
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.
Internet Research Task Force
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/...