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