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Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025: https://www.irtf.org/anrp/ The Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) is awarded to recognize the best recent results in applied networking, interesting new research ideas of potential relevance to the Internet standards community, and upcoming people that are likely to have an impact on Internet standards and technologies, with a particular focus on cases where these people or ideas would not otherwise get much exposure or be able to participate in the discussion. We encourage nominations of researchers with relevant research results, interesting ideas, and new perspectives. The award will offer them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with the engineers, network operators, policy makers, and scientists that participate in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its research arm, the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). Both self- and third-party nominations for this prize are encouraged.

We're pleased to announce that the Applied Networking Research Prize awards for IETF 122 will go to: Changjie Wang for his work on the use of large-language models to support network configuration ("NetConfEval: Can LLMs Facilitate Network Configuration”, ACM CoNEXT 2024, https://lnkd.in/eC3iyRwx) Henry Birge-Lee for his work on secure collaborative path control in BGP (“TANGO: Secure Collaborative Route Control across the Public Internet”, USENIX NSDI 2024, https://lnkd.in/e3PwjG_G) The presentations and award talks will take place during the IRTF Open Meeting at IETF 122 in Bangkok in March 2025. A live stream will be available for those unable to attend in person. The Applied Networking Research Prize recognises the best recent results in applied networking research, interesting new research ideas of potential relevance to the Internet standards community, and people who are likely to have an impact on Internet standards and technologies in the future. The ANRP is supported by the Internet Society and the IRTF, and sponsored by Comcast and NBC Universal. More information at https://www.irtf.org/anrp/

Don't miss a fantastic opportunity to learn about the work of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) and the Internet Engineering Task Force on 28 February at 1700 UTC from Colin Perkins and Carlos Martinez Cagnazzo. More information also at: https://lnkd.in/ex_vKbC2