A Journey from Surathkal to the IETF

We are final-year undergraduate students majoring in Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) in the Surathkal town of Mangalore, India. IETF 122 in Bangkok marked our first in-person participation in the Internet Engineering Task Force – and what a journey it was.

Working on Post-Quantum Cryptography for Open Source Software from Africa

During the IETF 122 Hackathon in Bangkok and online last month, the cyberstorm.mu team from Mauritius, the United States, and Kenya participated remotely to implement post-quantum cryptography components currently missing from widely-used open source software such as nmap, zmap, wireshark, and GnuTLS.

• Loganaden Velvindron cyberstorm.mu/cyberstorm.global team member

IETF 122 post-meeting survey

IETF 122 Bangkok was held 15-21 March 2025 and the results of the post-meeting survey are now available on a web-based interactive dashboard.

• Jay Daley IETF Executive Director

Report from RPC Retreat 2025

In early April 2025, the RFC Production Center (RPC) and IETF LLC senior staff met for the first RPC retreat following the contract change that now has the RPC reporting directly to the IETF Executive Director. This was a high-level retreat, the first of its kind for the RPC, looking at community requirements and the RPC internal processes that deliver those.

• Jay Daley IETF Executive Director
• Sandy Ginoza Director of RPC Operations
• Jean Mahoney Director of RPC Communications and Strategy

New IRTF Chair Dirk Kutscher: Advancing Global Collaboration and Innovation in Internet Research

The IETF Blog recently chatted with new Internet Research Task Force chair Dirk Kutscher about his views of where the IRTF is now and what the path ahead looks like.