Liaison statement
Recently published Broadband Forum Work Items (June 2026)

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State Posted
Submitted Date 2026-06-11
From Group BROADBAND-FORUM
From Contact lylavoie@iol.unh.edu
To Groups green, nmop, opsawg, rtgwg
To Contacts Joe Clarke <jclarke@cisco.com>
Benoît Claise <benoit@everything-ops.net>
Jeff Tantsura <jefftant.ietf@gmail.com>
Yingzhen Qu <yingzhen.ietf@gmail.com>
Benoît Claise <benoit@everything-ops.net>
Reshad Rahman <reshad@yahoo.com>
Diego Lopez <diego.r.lopez@telefonica.com>
Robert Wilton <rwilton@cisco.com>
Cc Mohamed Boucadair <mohamed.boucadair@orange.com>
Reshad Rahman <reshad@yahoo.com>
Gunter Van de Velde <gunter.van_de_velde@nokia.com>
Jim Guichard <james.n.guichard@futurewei.com>
Joe Clarke <jclarke@cisco.com>
Benoît Claise <benoit@everything-ops.net>
Operations and Management Area Working Group Discussion List <opsawg@ietf.org>
Jeff Tantsura <jefftant.ietf@gmail.com>
Mahesh Jethanandani <mjethanandani@gmail.com>
Robert Wilton <rwilton@cisco.com>
Yingzhen Qu <yingzhen.ietf@gmail.com>
Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking Discussion List <green@ietf.org>
Xueyan Song <song.xueyan2@zte.com.cn>
Network Management Operations Discussion List <nmop@ietf.org>
Diego Lopez <diego.r.lopez@telefonica.com>
Ketan Talaulikar <ketant.ietf@gmail.com>
Routing Area Working Group Discussion List <rtgwg@ietf.org>
Liaisons at BBF <liaisons@broadband-forum.org>
Lincoln Lavoie <lylavoie@iol.unh.edu>
Craig Thomas <cthomas@broadband-forum.org>
Karina Rocha-Gabbard <krocha@broadband-forum.org>
Response Contact lylavoie@iol.unh.edu
Purpose For information
Attachments LIAISE-757_Recently_Completed_BBF_Work_June_2026_rev-01
Body 
The Broadband Forum is pleased the share our latest published work, which may
be accessed directly through our online technical library
(https://www.broadband-forum.org/technical-library/).

MR-529: AI in Broadband Networks
This Broadband Forum marketing report outlines the vision and technical trends
for integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into broadband networks, shifting
traditional connection-oriented models toward intelligent, personalized
services. It highlights key AI applications such as Agentic AI as a Service,
Quality on Demand, and self-optimizing networks that enhance fault recovery and
energy efficiency. To support these capabilities, the report emphasizes the
evolution toward autonomous network architectures through native AI, network
resource pooling, full visibility, and robust data models.

TR-181 Issue 2 Amendment 21: Device Data Model
The Device:2 data model defines the full information model that is used for the
management and control of devices through both the TR-069 and USP protocols,
such as the configuration, management, and control of multiple AP Wi-Fi
systems, software management within the residential gateway devices, and bulk
data collections of telemetry data. This amendment specifically adds features
for certification provisioning, Wi-Fi AFC, and MQTT Support improvement (broker
security configuration, multiple MQTT Broker processes).

TR-106a17: Data Model Template for CWMP Endpoints and USP Agents
The data model template provides the foundational structure for the TR-181
Device:2 data model, ensuring consistent structure and approach to the design
of the data demo.

The Broadband Forum encourages our partner SDO’s to review these materials, to
ensure work their progress references these latest materials and avoids
duplication of efforts. We look forward to the continued collaboration with our
peers as we all continue to progress this important work.

Sincerely,

Lincoln Lavoie,
Broadband Forum Technical Committee Chair