Suggested IETF 121 Sessions for Getting Familiar with New Topics

If you are a new IETF participant, or if you are an experienced participant who would like to get familiar with a new topic, there are many sessions at the IETF 121 Dublin meeting that will include interesting discussions. A final agenda is available on the IETF Datatracker. Additional information about and links to session agendas will be added to this page as they are available. 

Check out the new participant webpage for more information about sessions specifically for new participants.

This post will be updated as more information for IETF 121 is available.

SATURDAY, 2 November 2024

10:30-11:00

IETF Hackathon Kickoff (separate free registration required)
Liffey B

The IETF Hackathon is a two-day event where participants develop and test that their code can interoperate with others, or where new code is written, often to implement recent IETF work. The kickoff meeting describes all the projects that will go on this week; they are also already listed on the Hackathon wiki. Feel free to join an existing team to squash some bugs! You do not need to bring code; you can simply join a topic of interest and contribute to existing code, help with testing or in many other ways.

SUNDAY, 3 November 2024

10:00-12:00

Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG)
Liffey Hall 2
The IEPG is an informal gathering that meets on the Sunday prior to IETF meetings. The IEPG sessions cover a wide range of operator and operational topics, and often include real-world measurements, discussions around deployment issues, as well as more academic research type presentations. Unlike IETF working groups, it does not work on or generate Internet-Drafts.

12:30-13:30
Tutorial: New Participants’ Overview
Liffey Hall 2
This tutorial provides the key information you need to get started in the IETF, including its structure, processes, and resources. Check out the new participant webpage for more information. A tutorial about how to use Meetecho, the tool which all IETF meeting participants, both onsite and remote, need to use, follows immediately after.

14:00-16:00

Hackathon Results Presentations
Liffey B

IETF Hackathon participants brief the group about what they accomplished.

16:00-17:00
New Participants' Quick Connections (Open to new participants only)
Wicklow Hall 2B
The Quick Connections is a simple and effective way for new participants to be introduced to a variety of experienced IETF attendees—often Working Group (WG) chairs or Area Directors —who can help you get more involved in your areas of interest. Pre-registration is required and available on your attendee dashboard after you have registered for the IETF 121 meeting.

17:15-19:00

Welcome Reception
The Forum
This is the official opening session of the IETF meeting week. Come by and meet some new people with drinks and free snacks.

18:00-20:00

HotRFC Lightning Talks
Liffey A
See rapid-fire presentations about new standards work or new research topics, updates on cross-area IETF work and relevant technologies, and industry advances that could affect IETF participants.

MONDAY, 4 November 2024

09:30-11:30 Monday Session I

Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (green)
Liffey B

Building on a successful Birds of a Feather (BOF) session held during IETF 120, the Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (GREEN) working group will meet for the first time during IETF 121 Dublin to explore use cases, derive requirements, and provide solutions for identifying and characterizing energy efficiency metrics, defining methods related to monitoring and controlling energy consumption of network devices, and optimizing energy efficiency across the Internet.

13:00-15:00 Monday Session II

Moderation Procedures (modpod)
Liffey B

The MODeration PrOceDures (MODPOD) work group will revise existing and define new moderation procedures suitable for all IETF communication channels.

High Performance Wide Area Network BoF (hpwan)
The Auditorium

The thrust of the BoF will be to bring together interested parties, including those operating R&E infrastructures, to discuss existing practices, what works, what does not work, for High-Performance Wide Area Networks (HP-WANs), which are WANs that are engineered to meet the stringent demands of high-speed, low-latency, and ultra-high-volume applications in environments such as research, academia, and large-scale data processing.

15:30-17:00 Monday Session III

ALLDISPATCH
The Auditorium
This is new type of session that discusses proposals for new work in all IETF Areas, and aims to make a recommendation about the best venue in which to do the work. For IETF 121, this ALLDISPATCH session combines topics covered at DISPATCH, SECDISPATCH, and GENDISPATCH at previous IETF meetings. The session agenda provides further structure for the session. The work being discussed usually has low barriers to understanding and participation.

17:30-18:30 Monday Session IV

IRTF Open Meeting (irtfopen)
Liffey A
News and updates from the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), along with talks by recent Applied Networking Research Prize winners Sawsan El-Zahr for her work to reduce the carbon footprint of Internet routing and Mingshi Wu for his work to understand censorship of fully encrypted traffic.

19:00-21:00

Hackdemo Happy Hour
Ground Floor Foyer
A social gathering to highlight work accomplished during the preceding IETF Hackathon.

19:00-21:00 

New Participants’ Dinner (Open to new participants only)
This dinner is a chance to meet other newcomers to IETF meetings Organized by Secretariat. Please note that pre-registration is required, and a US$15 fee will be charged. More information is available on the New Participants webpage.

TUESDAY, 5 November 2024

09:30-11:30 Tuesday Session I

Digital Emblems (diem) BoF
Liffey A

This session will explore potential work to develop digital emblems that augment physical emblems (such as the “Press” emblems on battlefields). This BoF is working group-forming, and won’t be a venue for discussing perspectives on the legal, regulatory, or policy aspects surrounding the topic of digital emblems. A WG charter will be discussed during the BoF. The technical challenges in this space cross multiple areas within the IETF and input is needed from technology, policy, and legal expertise without delving into subjective aspects around those areas.

Routing Area Working Group (rtgwg)
The Auditorium

This session is a venue to discuss, evaluate, support, and develop proposals for new work in the Routing Area. This working group also works on fast-reroute, YANG models, and other general routing topics.

13:00-14:30 Tuesday Session II

IAB Open Meeting (iabopen)
Liffey B
In this session, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) provides a more detailed update on their technical programs, workshops, and current work-in-process architectural guidance documents, and seeks community input.

15:30-17:00 Tuesday Session III

17:30-18:30 Tuesday Session IV

WEDNESDAY, 6 November 2024

09:30-11:30 Wednesday Session I

RESTful Provisioning Protocol (rpp)
Liffey Hall 1

Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
Wicklow Hall 1

Crypto Forum (cfrg)
Liffey A

The Crypto Forum Research Group considers cryptographic protocols, primitives and their parameters that are useful for IETF work. Current CFRG work is focused on signature schemes with specific properties, AEAD mechanisms, Password Authenticated Key Establishment (PAKE) and multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, as well as general questions (guidelines for writing cryptography specifications) and implementation guidance documents.

13:00-14:30 Wednesday Session II

Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
Liffey Hall 2

This session is usually about the IP layer and its interaction with layer 2. It is expected to have discussions about several ICMP extensions.

15:30-17:00 Wednesday Session III

17:30-19:30

IETF Plenary
Regency A/B/C/D
The plenary is the one meeting addressed to the entire IETF community. There are leadership reports about the state of the IETF, as well as “open mic” sessions for community feedback on a broad range of topics.

THURSDAY, 7 November 2024

08:30-9:15
Technology Deep Dive: “3GPP 5G architecture from an IETF routing perspective”
Liffey B
This Technology Deep Dive session will focus on 3GPP core networking from an IETF routing area perspective. A brief overview of 3GPP structure and working procedures is provided as well. 

09:30-11:30 Thursday Session I

Secure Communication of Network Properties (sconepro)
Liffey B
This session will consider forming a working group around discussions about how both network operators and application providers, particularly of video-based applications, might benefit from the ability to signal network attributes to the application so it can adapt.

13:00-14:30 Thursday Session II

Deepspace BoF (deepspace)
Liffey B

This session will consider forming a working group to develop an architecture for using the IP stack in deep space beyond Earth orbit, including documenting the unique characteristics of this environment. The first implementations of this work are expected to consider applications on and around the Moon.

15:00-16:30 Thursday Session III

17:00-18:00 Thursday Session IV

18:30-19:30 Thursday Session V

19:00-21:00 

New Participants’ Social Hour (Open to new participants only)

Grouse
This gathering is a great opportunity for new participants to share their experiences and discuss topics of interest with IETF leadership. More information is available on the New Participants webpage.

FRIDAY, 8 November 2024

09:30-11:30 Friday Session I

Security Area Open Meeting (saag)
Liffey A

13:00-15:00 Friday Session II

Update to IANA Considerations (inanbis)
Liffey B

Internet Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG)
Wicklow Hall 1
The ICCRG and the Congestion Control Working Group (see Wednesday Session II) will be talking about various approaches to improve congestion control. Congestion control—sending enough data to get good performance while avoiding overloading the network path or filling buffers in the network—is important to overall network performance. Better congestion control can help improve application performance as well as latency under load. There is increasing energy around and interest in congestion control in both the IETF and IRTF, and various proposals in this space are being discussed.

15:30-17:00 Friday Session III

17:15-18:15

Farewell Reception

Level 3 Foyer