Internet Research Task Force
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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 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/...
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 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.
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 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/
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 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/
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/
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/...
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...
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/
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...
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...
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. 1/3
We're pleased to announce that the winners of the 2025 Applied Networking Research Prize are Jacob Ginesin, Saksham Agarwal, Hendrik Cech, Haarika Manda, Changjie Wang, and Henry Birge-Lee. Look out for their award talks during the IRTF Open Meetings in the coming year www.irtf.org/anrp/ #IETF
The recent Decentralization of the Internet (DIN) workshop at ACM CoNEXT-2024 brought together network researchers, law and policy experts and digital right activists to discuss Internet consolidation. Read more about the workshop from the DINRG Co-chairs: www.ietf.org/blog/acm-din...
The IRTF promotes research into the evolution of the Internet and helps to connect the research community with the protocol designers, implementors, and operators working in the @ietf.bsky.social to develop technical standards for the Internet. www.irtf.org