QIRG Meeting @ IETF 116 Minutes

Notes by Niels ten Oever // blame them on me

• Welcome

  • Wear a mask
  • Register when you are onsite

• Testbed networks around the world

  • NL testbed presentation

    • "Quantum Network Testbed Developments in NL"
    • Technical issues
    • [Presentation]

  • Illinois testbed presentation

    • "Design and Implementation of the Illinois Express Quantum
      Metropolitan Area Network"
    • [Presentation]

  • Japan testbed presentation

    • "Quantum Internet Task Force (Japan)"
    • [Presentation]

  • Questions:

    • No questions

• Discussion of draft-irtf-qirg-quantum-internet-use-cases

  • [Presentation]

  • Comment Rod (as participant, not co-chair):

    • Great work on dealing with the review
    • I think this is ready to progress

  • No other comments/questions

  • RGLC will start on the list after the meeting

• Experimental demonstration of entanglement delivery using a quantum
  network stack

  • [Presentation]

  • Questions:

    • Pete Resnick:

      • Q: When you go back to the slide where you say most
        values are above the target, but it seems to be 50-50
      • A: The yellow dots are slightly above the requested
        [...]
      • Q: Ah now I got it.

    • Rod:

      • Q: Is there a requirement, is there a trade-off between
        fidelity and rate?
      • A: There is no systemetic way to negotiate. The way we
        do it is compiled in the code, if the compiler knows the
        platform this is taken into account. You might want to
        have this dynamically configurable, but we don't have
        this at the moment. There is a trade-off, but this is
        not being expressed. This is something the user
        application probably knows, else there should be
        something for this. Trade-off is dynamic in nature
        depending on your calibration.

    • Joaqim:

      • Q: You mentioned that you need to view the scale of the
        network at the control plane, are these timeslots
        assigned or going to change?
      • A: It is a good question, I don't have a precise answer,
        people are studying this, but eventually one wants to
        compute this as the demand changes

• Book announcement

  • [Presentation]
  • https://github.com/sfc-aqua/Overview-of-Quantum-Communications-E
  • Creative Commons data<3

• Closing