Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (cats) WG Agenda - IETF 125

• When: 2026-03-16 14:00-16:00 Shenzhen
• Co-Chairs: Adrian Farrel, Peng Liu
• Secretary: Cheng Li

Logistic

• Materials: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/125/session/cats
• Note taking: https://notes.ietf.org/notes-ietf-125-cats
• Meetecho: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf125/?group=cats&short=cats&item=1
• Zulip: https://zulip.ietf.org/#narrow/stream/cats

Compact Agenda

1. Agenda Bashing, Introduction, & WG Status (5 min)

Chairs

2. WG Documents Update

2.1. CATS Framework Update (10 min)

Cheng Li
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cats-framework/

2.2. CATS Metrics (10 min)

Kehan Yao
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cats-metric-definition/

3. Upcoming Documents

3.1. CATS OAM Framework (10 min)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fu-cats-oam-fw/
Quan Xiong

3.2 CATS Security Considerations (10 min)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-cats-security-considerations/
Jinyu Shi

3.3. Yang Model for CATS (10 min)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yl-cats-data-model/
Quan Xiong

3.4. Computing metrics as a service (CMAS) for facilitating traffic steering in CATS framework (10 min)

Yina Dai
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhangb-cats-cmas/

4. Disscussion of Protocols Applicability

4.1. Protocols Applicability for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) (10 min)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yxl-cats-protocols-applicability/
Hujuan Yao

4.2. BGP Edge Metadata Path Applicability (10 min)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-cats-5g-metadata-applicability/
Linda Dunbar

5. CATS and Optical

5.1. Framework and Applicability of CATS in Optical Transport Networks (OTN) (10 min)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhao-cats-otn-applicability/
Xiao Li

5.2. Unified Optical Networks and AI Computing Orchestration (UONACO) (10 min)

Problem Statement, Use Cases and Requirements (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tan-ccamp-uonaco-problem-statement/)
Control Framework (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hu-ccamp-uonaco-control-framework/)
Zheng Han

6. If there is time

6.1. Intelligence Delivery Network (IDN) (5 mins)

Framework of IDN for Deep Learning Inference (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-cats-idn/)
Framework for Large Language Model Inference (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-cats-odsi/)
Hanling Wang

6.2. In-Network Scheduling & Semantic Contract for AI Workloads (5 mins)

IntelliNode: In-Network Intelligent Scheduling Extensions for CATS(https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-cats-intellinode-network-scheduling/)

Semantic-Driven Traffic Shaping Contract for AI Networks(https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-cats-aisemantic-contract/)

Teng Gao

7. Open Disccusion (5 mins)