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Internet Research Task Force

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) promotes research of importance to the evolution of the Internet protocols, applications, architecture and technology.

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) focuses on longer term research issues related to the Internet while the parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ), focuses on the shorter term issues of engineering and standards making.

The IRTF is comprised of a number of focused and long-term Research Groups. These groups work on topics related to Internet protocols, applications, architecture and technology. Research Groups have the stable long-term membership needed to promote the development of research collaboration and teamwork in exploring research issues. Participation is by individual contributors, rather than by representatives of organizations.

The IRTF also organises the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop and the Applied Networking Research Prize to encourage collaboration between the academic research world and the Internet standards community.

The IRTF also makes available a number of travel grants and fee waivers to support PhD students, early career researchers, and under-represented groups to attend research group meeting, workshops, and other IRTF-related events.

Research Groups

These 15 Research Groups are currently chartered or proposed for chartering:

Crypto Forum Research Group

Computation in the Network Research Group

Decentralization of the Internet Research Group

Global Access to the Internet for All Research Group

Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group

Internet Congestion Control Research Group

Information-Centric Networking Research Group

Measurement and Analysis for Protocols Research Group

Network Management Research Group

Path Aware Networking Research Group

Privacy Enhancements and Assessments Research Group

Quantum Internet Research Group

Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes Research Group

Thing-to-Thing Research Group

Usable Formal Methods Research Group

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RFC 7418 gives an IRTF Primer for IETF Participants. It provides a high-level description of issues for IETF participants to consider when bringing proposals for new research groups into the IRTF, and emphasizes differences in expectations between the two organizations.

The IRTF is managed by the IRTF Chair in consultation with the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG). The IRSG membership includes the IRTF Chair, the chairs of the various Research Groups, and other individuals (“members at large”) from the research community selected by the IRTF Chair.

The governance and operation of the IRTF is described by various RFCs and other policy documents including Intellectual Property Rights disclosure rules. The IETF ’s Anti-Harassment Policy and Privacy Policy also apply to the IRTF.

The [email protected] mailing list is a low-volume announcement mailing list for Research Group creations and conclusions, IRTF RFC publication, etc.

The [email protected] mailing list is the main discussion list for general IRTF topics.

A wiki with more information about the IRTF is here .

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Travel grants.

Applications for diversity travel grants to attend ANRW 2024 and IRTF meetings associated with IETF-120 are now being accepted – deadline 10 May 2024.

Call for Papers

The Applied Networking Research Workshop 2024 is accepting paper submissions until 22 April 2024.

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The mission of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is to conduct research into the long term future of the Internet . The IRTF is guided by the Internet Research Steering Group, and is composed of a number of small research groups that work on the development of the Internet protocols, applications, architecture, and technology. Befitting its long term focus, it is composed of members that serve for extended periods, but as individuals, and not as representatives of organizations.

The role of the IRTF is not to set Internet standards, but to take the long view of the future of the Internet, to research this future within its various research groups, and document the results in journals, white papers, and at conferences. Any technologies created as a result are brought to the Internet Engineering Task Force working groups.

The chair of the IRTF is appointed by the Internet Architecture Board. The Internet Research Steering Group is composed of the chairs of the IRTF research groups.

The Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG) manages the IRTF research groups, and holds workshops focused on various Internet research areas.

RFC’s . Request For Comments that provide information about the IRTF are listed below:

• The IRTF Research Groups are described in Request For Comments 2014 .

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Works with industry to improve the quality and timeliness of emerging technical specifications for next-generation Internet technologies and distributed information systems and to foster their adoption and deployment in operational networks. The emphasis of the group is on innovating and applying advanced measurement science to increase the security and resilience and expand the applicability of new, potentially disruptive, Internet technologies.

Evolving the Technical Infrastructure of the Internet

Internet technologies    provide a technical infrastructure for most of the systems (information, transportation, manufacturing, communications, defense, Government,  education, entertainment, etc) that underlie our lives.

• The global Internet is at a crossroads as the viability of several of its most basic infrastructural technologies  (routing, naming and addressing) are threatened by inherent  vulnerabilities and robustness problems.
• Internet technologies provide the basis for networks of the future - including the Internet of Things, industrial control systems, advanced mobile broadband, cloud computing, etc.   The pace of innovation in Internet technologies to address these new and disruptive use cases is rapid.

ITRG Mission:

• Fostering New Network Technology - The ITRG works with industry to improve the quality and timeliness of emerging specifications and to foster industry adoption  of next-generation Internet technologies and distributed information systems. 
• Advancing Network Metrology - The emphasis of the group is on innovating and applying advanced measurement science to increase the robustness and expand the applicability of potentially disruptive Internet technologies. 
• Competencies of the group include: leadership in industry consensus standards, modeling and analysis of emerging Internet technologies, measurement science for scalable information systems, design and evaluation of advanced network test and measurement techniques, and rapid prototyping and empirical measurement of early protocol designs.
• Our efforts focuses on Internet Scale problems, solutions and measurement techniques .

ITRG Techniques / Competencies:

• Internet scale modeling for performance, scalability, vulnerability, robustness.
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), WiFi Alliance.
• Measurement and monitoring of Internet infrastructure.
• Collaboration with various large scale measurement activities.
• Open source reference implementations of emerging specifications.
• Fostering commercial adoption and deployment
• Test tools designed to assist implementers and early adopters.
• Accredited testing laboratories for formal product interoperability and conformance.

ITRG Current Focus Areas:

ITRG's primary focus is upon  Trustworthy Networks  Research , where we  work to establish the technical basis necessary to improve the security, resilience and performance of the communication infrastructures that underlie our network-centric society. Our research cultivates trust in current and emerging network technologies by developing and applying innovative measurement techniques, improving the quality and timeliness of consensus standards, and providing tools and guidance necessary to expedite adoption of advanced network technologies.  ITRG collaborates directly with leading industry research ( Internet Research Task Force ), standards ( Internet Engineering Task Force ,  O-RAN Alliance ,  ATIS ) and network operations ( North American Network Operators Group ) communities to leverage NIST contributions and  foster the design, standardization and commercial deployment of solutions to systemic vulnerabilities and robustness issues in existing and emerging core network infrastructure.

Current project areas within this program include:

• The  Advanced Security Architectures for Next Generation Wireless  project works with mobile wireless, internet and virtual computing industry to improve the security and resilience of emerging designs for 56 / 6G core networks and radio access networks (RANs).  Our current work focuses on enhancing the security properties of emerging O-RAN Alliance standards for 5G Open-RAN and disaggregated virtualize core networks.
• The Zero Trust Networks project seeks to define the basic principles of zero trust architectures and to develop standards and guidance for their implementation in modern enterprise environments and in the core infrastructure of next generation wireless networks.
• The  Robust Inter-Domain Routing  project includes collaborative research with leading Internet companies to design and standardize technologies to improve the resilience and security of the Internet’s global routing system. It focuses on developing and fostering deployment of mitigation techniques for attacks and misconfigurations that result in large-scale Internet outages.
• The  Trustworthy Intelligent Networks   project   works with industry and academia to improve the trustworthiness and applicability of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to future networks and distributed systems.  Our research focuses on applications of AI/ML to address security and robustness issues today's networks and developing means to test and measure the robustness of AI/ML techniques necessary for future autonomic networks.
• The  High Assurance Domains   project works with the IETF, Messaging Malware Mobile and Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), Department of Defense and the Federal CIO Council to research and develop new technologies to address key trust and security issues in enterprise networks. The current focus of this effort is on the development of a reference architecture and evaluation techniques for emerging  Zero Trust Networks.
• The  Software Defined and Virtual Networks  project works to develop test and measurement techniques to advance the state of the art in network virtualization, network service function chaining, software defined networks, technologies and techniques to address robustness and security of virtualized network services.  Our work explores novel applications of NFV/SDN to domains such as network security and intrusion detection,  support of machine to machine communications, support of advanced mobility and cloud computing.  A key component of this research is the development of enabling programmable measurement techniques that can efficiently operate at the scale and speed of advanced networks.
• The  Trustworthy Network of Things   project works with industry to design, standardize, test and foster adoption of network-centric approaches to protect IoT devices from the Internet and to protect the Internet from IoT devices.  Our current efforts focus on the research and development manufacturer usage description (MUD) and secure device onboardings technologies.
• The  USGv6 Program  works with the IETF and Federal CIO community to provide technical leadership in standards profiles, product testing programs, and deployment guidance to foster the global transition to the next generation Internet Protocol (IPv6).
• The  Measurement Science for Complex Information Systems  project aims to develop and evaluate a coherent set of methods to understand behavior in complex information systems, such as the Internet, computational grids and computing clouds. Such large distributed systems exhibit global behavior arising from independent decisions made by many simultaneous actors, which adapt their behavior based on local measurements of system state. Actor adaptations shift the global system state, influencing subsequent measurements, leading to further adaptations. This continuous cycle of measurement and adaptation drives a time-varying global behavior. For this reason, proposed changes in actor decision algorithms must be examined at large spatiotemporal scale in order to predict system behavior. 

Please see each project for details of our contributions including research publications, standards specifications, software tools, guidance documents, workshops, etc.

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NIST Releases Measurement Tool for Emerging BGP Security Technologies

Zero trust architecture: nist publishes sp 800-207, nist publishes sp 800-189, resilient interdomain traffic exchange: bgp security and ddos mitigation, nist updates usgv6 program in support of new federal ipv6 initiatives.

New Network Security Standards Will Protect Internet’s Routing

Recent select publications, zero trust architecture, accupipe: accurate heavy flow detection in the data plane using programmable switches, resilient interdomain traffic exchange: bgp security and ddos mitigation, software defined networking (sdn) enhanced edge computing: a network centric survey, soft mud: implementing manufacturer usage descriptions on openflow sdn switches, botsifter: a sdn-based online bot detection framework in data centers, evaluating predictors of congestion collapse in communication networks, selected software, bgp secure routing extension (bgp‑srx) software suite.

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2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Oliver Borchert, William Haag Jr., Tim McBride, Douglas Montgomery, Scott Rose, Murugiah Souppaya, Kotikalapudi Sriram

ITRG Quick Links

• NIST IPv6 Deployment Monitor and Test Tool. - http://fedv6-deployment.antd.nist.gov /
• NIST RPKI Monitor - http://rpki-monitor.antd.nist.gov /
• NIST BGP Secure Routing Extension (BGP‑SRx) Software Suite -  https://www.nist.gov/services-resources/software/bgp-secure-routing-extension-bgp-srx-software-suite

ITRG Additional Information

• D. Montgomery; Internet and Scalable Systems Research: Addressing Systemic Challenges to Our Network Centric Society ; presentation.
• Current Opportunities for Collaboration with ITRG .

ITRG Information Contact:

• Doug Montgomery [email protected] (301) 975-3630
• ITRG Contact [email protected]

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