Suggested IETF 122 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 122 Bangkok meeting that will include interesting discussions. Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions in particular may be interesting as BOFs are one way for potential new work to be discussed in the IETF community. 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. 

If you are new to the IETF or just new to IETF meetings, please be sure to consider registering for the expanded New Participant Program. Once you’ve registered for the IETF 122 meeting, additional sign up is required via your participant dashboard for this full-day program on Sunday, 16 March 2025 at the meeting venue and via remote participation.

This post will be updated as more information for IETF 122 is available. Of particular note, agendas and other materials for sessions are posted very close to agenda times so please check the IETF Datatracker for the latest information.

Note: All times are in the ICT timezone (UTC +7 hours).

SATURDAY, 15 March 2025

09:30-21:00

IETF Hackathon Kickoff (separate free registration required)
Sala Thai Ballroom
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, 16 March 2025

09:00-15:45

New Participants’ Program
Pavilion 1/2
This full-day program on Sunday, 16 March 2025 will take place at the meeting venue. After registering for the IETF 122 meeting, additional sign up is required via your participant dashboard.Participation in all sessions will be available via Meetecho. See the expanded New Participant Program webpage for details about all the sessions.

10:00-12:00

Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG)
Chitlada 3
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.

14:00-16:00

Hackathon Results Presentations
Sala Thai Ballroom

IETF Hackathon participants brief the group about what they accomplished.

16:00-17:00
New Participants' Quick Connections (Open to new participants only)
Pagoda
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 122 meeting.

17:00-19:00

Welcome Reception
Chitlada 1/2
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
Chitlada 3
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, 17 March 2025

09:30-11:30 Monday Session I

Security Dispatch (secdispatch)
Sala Thai Ballroom
The Security Dispatch working group is a DISPATCH-style WG (see [RFC7957]) chartered to consider proposals for new work in the SEC area and if the work is appropriate for the IETF and there is sufficient interest, identify, or help create, an appropriate venue for the work. 

13:00-15:00 Monday Session II

RESTful Provisioning Protocol (rpp)
Chitlada 1
The RPP working group is focused on designing a new protocol via a series of specifications known collectively as the RESTful Provisioning Protocol (RPP). This work follows in the path of the successful Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), which was standardized (STD69) in 2009 to address the needs of domain name management between domain name registries and registrars.

Crypto Forum (cfrg)
Chitlada 2
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.

Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
Chitlada 3
The OPSAWG serves as the forum for occasional proposals to develop and publish of RFCs dealing with operational and management topics that are not in scope of an existing working group and do not justify the formation of a new working group.

15:30-16:30 Monday Session III

IAB Open Meeting (iabopen)
Chitlada 1
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.

Domain Name System Operations (dnsop)
Sala Thai Ballroom
The DNS Operations Working Group develops guidelines for the operation of DNS software and services and for the administration of DNS zones. These guidelines provide technical information relating to the implementation of the DNS protocol by the operators and administrators of DNS zones.

17:00-18:30 Monday Session IV

TUESDAY, 18 March 2025

09:30-11:30 Tuesday Session I

Quantum Internet Research Group (qirg)
Chitlada 1
Overall the goal of the QIRG is to address the question of how to design and build quantum networks. Among its work, QIRG is developing an architectural framework delineating network node roles and definitions, to build a common vocabulary and serve as the first step toward a quantum network architecture.

13:00-14:30 Tuesday Session II

Sustainability and the Internet Proposed Research Group (sustain)
Sala Thai Ballroom
The goal of the SUSTAIN RG is to contribute to the advancement of the Internet as a fundamental part of sustainable and resilient societies and the planet, through conceptual and evidence-based multi-disciplinary research collaboration.

15:30-17:00 Tuesday Session III

IAB Open Meeting (iabopen)
Chitlada 1
This session organized by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) will focus on the UN-organized WSIS+20 process, including opportunities and implications for the technical community.

17:30-18:30 Tuesday Session IV

Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (green)
Chitlada 1
The Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (GREEN) working group will meet for the second time during IETF 122 Bangkok 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.

19:00-23:00
IETF Board Game Night
Meeting Room 6

WEDNESDAY, 19 March 2025

09:30-11:30 Wednesday Session I

Symmetric Key Establishment and Exchange (skex) BoF
Chitlada 1
The Symmetric Key Establishment and Exchange BoF will discuss the possibility of developing a standardised framework document for symmetric key establishment and exchange mechanisms and also to define protocols for such actions.

13:00-15:00 Wednesday Session II

15:30-16:30 Wednesday Session III

Transport and Services Working Group (tsvwg)
Sala Thai Ballroom
The Transport and Services Working Group (TSVWG) is the forum for development and publication of RFCs dealing with transport-layer topics that are not in scope of an existing working group or do not justify the formation of a new working group.

17:00-19:00

IETF Plenary
Chitlada 1/2
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, 20 March 2025

09:30-11:30 Thursday Session I

Routing Area Working Group (rtgwg)
Sala Thai Ballroom
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.

Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open Meeting (irtfopen)
Chitlada 1
News and updates from the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), along with talks by recent Applied Networking Research Prize winners Changjie Wang for his work on the use of large-language models to support network configuration and Henry Birge-Lee For his work on secure collaborative path control in BGP.

13:00-14:30 Thursday Session II

AI Preferences (aipref)
Chitlada 1
This is the first meeting of the AI Preferences Working Group, which  is working to standardize building blocks that allow for the expression of preferences about how content is collected and processed for Artificial Intelligence (AI) model development, deployment, and use.

11:45-12:45

Host Speaker Series: “Traffic Engineering, redux”
Meeting Room 6
This talk will be given by Kireeti Kompella, Chief Engineer, WAN BU, Juniper Networks

15:00-16:30 Thursday Session III

Taking IP To Other Planets (tiptop)
Sala Thai Ballroom
This session is the first meeting of the working group formed to consider deployment and use of IP networks beyond Earth orbit, including documenting the unique characteristics of this environment. For example, space communications involve long, variable delays (e.g., Earth to Mars is 4-20 minutes one-way) and intermittent end-to-end connectivity.

17:00-18:00 Thursday Session IV

Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (green)
Chitlada 1
The Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (GREEN) working group will meet for the second time during IETF 122 Bangkok 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.

Security Area Open Meeting (saag)
Chitlada 2
The Security Area Advisory Group (SAAG) is an open forum of the Security Area to discuss security and privacy issues. It typically meets during the face-to-face IETF meeting. SAAG is not a working group and does not adopt or publish documents.

Update to IANA Considerations (ianabis)
Chitlada 3
The IANABIS working group will consider proposed revisions to BCP 26, given experience gained since the publication of RFC 8126, and ultimately produce a revision for that document. 

18:15-19:15 

New Participants’ Social Hour (Open to new participants only)
Meeting Room 6
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, 22 March 2025

09:30-11:30 Friday Session I

Secure Communication of Network Properties (scone)
Chitlada 2
This working group aims to develop a mechanism to  allow an application to receive notifications containing throughput advice for both upstream and downstream traffic. The throughput advice serves as a guideline to enhance user experience and represents the maximum bitrate manageable by a single network element for that user's current connection

13:00-15:00 Friday Session II

Moderation Procedures (modpod)
Boromphimarn 5
The MODeration PrOceDures (MODPOD) work group is revising existing and defining new moderation procedures suitable for all IETF communication channels.

15:30-16:30 Friday Session III

16:45-17:45
Farewell Reception
Sala Thai Ballroom