Birds of a Feather at IETF 109
Two proposals for early-stage discussion were made for IETF 109.
We often talk about how the Internet evolves. In large part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the year 2020 represents a situation where in a relatively short time, new user demands caused fairly significant changes in what the Internet was needed for.
In the space of just a few weeks, traffic patterns and volumes changed, and operators and service providers had to cope to provide services in light of the changed demand.
COVID-19 has had a big impact on people’s lives and the society. Impacts beyond immediate health ones have ranged from economic activity to the way we interact with others, and from personal behaviour to services and travel. We’ve seen sharp increases in working from home, online meetings, deliveries, and Internet-based commerce and entertainment, for instance. And of course many non-online services have also changed. The situation continues to evolve, for instance with the tightening or loosening rules as the pandemic itself progresses.
How the Internet and its use have evolved in the past few months—and what those changes indicate for the Internet’s future use and evolution—are worth examining more closely. How exactly did the traffic patterns change? What was the perception of the users in how well services worked, as change continued to take place? What did the service, Internet access, and cloud providers have to do in order to respond to the demand? How easy was it to deal with a significantly grown user base in various multimedia and conferencing services? What can we learn about Internet technology and our preparedness for possible future traffic swings?
To help answer these questions, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is holding a workshop to collect experiences and measurements about the impact of COVID-19 on networking, and to discuss lessons learned about operation, technology, and Internet architecture. All interested researchers, operators, and technology experts are invited to share their experiences. The scope of the workshop includes:
Submissions for the workshop are due on October 9th, 2020. More information is available from the call for papers.
Two proposals for early-stage discussion were made for IETF 109.
Registration is now open for the IETF 109 Online meeting hosted by Cisco.
Think back to the start of what some refer to as “the COVID-19 era.” It was early 2020 and prep for IETF 107 was in full swing. The wiki for the IETF 107 Hackathon already boasted an exciting list of projects.
We recently ran a survey to understand why people who participated in an IETF meeting in 2018/2019 did not participate in IETF 108 to see if there are any issues that we need to fix. The results are now available and this blog post explains some of the insights in the data.
We often talk about how the Internet evolves. In large part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the year 2020 represents a situation where in a relatively short time, new user demands caused fairly significant changes in what the Internet was needed for.
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