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!
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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.
The IRTF focusses on supporting research related to the Internet, while the parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), focuses on the shorter term issues of engineering and standards making.
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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.
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: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/materials/agenda-124-nmrg-03
- Usable Formal Methods: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/materials/agenda-124-ufmrg-02
- Decentralization of the Internet: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/materials/agenda-124-dinrg-06
- Global Access to the Internet for All: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/materials/agenda-124-gaia-01
IRTF groups that are meeting today at IETF-124:
- Quantum Internet Research Group: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/materials/agenda-124-qirg-04
- Crypto Forum: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/materials/agenda-124-cfrg-10
- Human Rights Protocol Considerations: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/materials/agenda-124-hrpc-02
- IRTFOPEN: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/materials/agenda-124-irtfopen-05
Reminder: apply for IRTF Travel Grants until November 14th.
Internet Research Task Force boosted:
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.
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.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/session/irtfopen
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.
Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025
www.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: https://irtf.org/anrp/
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: https://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 https://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: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/materials/agenda-123-maprg-sessa-02
Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/materials/agenda-123-rasprg-01
Side meeting on (Inter) Networking for AI at IETF-123 in Madrid today, at 19:00 today:
https://github.com/IRTF-net4AI/IETF123-sidemeeting/
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".
At IETF-123 in Madrid, the following IRTF research groups are meeting this afternoon:
- Decentralization of the Internet: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/materials/agenda-123-dinrg-01
- Human Rights Protocol Considerations: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/materials/agenda-123-hrpc-01
See https://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: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/materials/agenda-123-qirg-03
- Thing-to-Thing: https://github.com/t2trg/2025-ietf123
- Path Aware Networking: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/materials/agenda-123-panrg-02
The IRTFOPEN session on Thursday morning at IETF-123 will feature two ANRP winner talks on US Internet Access Inequities Manda and on Starlink performance, and an invited talk by Hermann de Meer on power and ICT systems interdependencies:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/materials/agenda-123-irtfopen-02
At IETF-123, the proposed SUSTAINRG will discuss the correlation of computation & networking with renewable energy, sustainability insights from subsea cable, mobile networks, linking company sustainability reporting with technical enablers and more!
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/agenda-123-sustain/
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