NMRG 86th meeting
IETF 125, Shenzhen + Online

Session 1:
2026-03-19 16:30-18:00 CST / 2026-03-16 09:30-11:00 CET
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/125/session/35090.ics

Session 2:
2026-03-19 16:30-18:00 CST / 2026-03-19 09:30-11:00 CET
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/125/session/35091.ics

Contacts:
- RG Chairs
- Jérôme François <jerome.francois@uni.lu>
- Jéferson Campos Nobre <jcnobre@inf.ufrgs.br>
- RG Secretaries
- Pedro Martinez-Julia <pedromj@gmail.com>
- Xiaohui Xie <xiexh1994@gmail.com>

Useful links:
- Materials: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/125/session/nmrg
- Meetecho Session 1: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf125/?session=35090
- Meetecho Session 2: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf125/?session=35091
- Notes: https://notes.ietf.org/notes-ietf-125-nmrg
- Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/user/ietf/playlists (available post-meeting)

** Agenda Session 1 - 2026-03-16 09:30-11:00 CET **

Introduction, status and news, RG Chairs, 5min

Towards Intelligent Network Configuration Management with LLMs, Wenlong Ding, 15 min including Q&A

Agentic AI for Intent-Based Network Management, Abdelkader Mekrache (remote), 25 min including Q&A

A Framework and Automation Levels for AI-Assisted Network Protocol Testing, draft-cui-nmrg-auto-test, Yunze Wei, 10 min including Q&A

Applicability of MCP for the Network Management, draft-yang-nmrg-mcp-nm, Yuanyuan Yang, 10 min including Q&A

Applicability of A2A to the Network Management, draft-yang-nmrg-a2a-nm, Shailesh Prabhu (remote), 10 min including Q&A

Use Cases and Practices for Intent-Based Networking, draft-irtf-nmrg-ibn-usecases, Jaehoon Paul Jeong, 10 min. Q&A

** Agenda Session 2 - 2026-03-19 09:30-11:00 CET **

Introduction, RG Chairs, 5 min.

A quick introduction to Intelligence Delivery Network (IDN) for Deep Learning and Open, Decentralized, and Scalable Framework for Large Language Model Inference, draft-li-cats-idn, draft-wang-cats-odsi, Hanling Wang, 10 min

Network Digital Twin
- Network Digital Twin - Practical Considerations and Thoughts, draft-liest-nmrg-ndt-challenges, Marco Liebsch – 10 min. Q&A
- Network Digital Twin and Agentic AI based Architecture for AI driven Network Operations, draft-wmz-nmrg-agent-ndt-arch, Qin Wu, 15 min. Q&A

AI
- A Framework to Evaluate LLM Agents for Network Configuration draft-cui-nmrg-llm-benchmark-01, Chenguang Du, 8 min including Q&A
- In-Network Inference Protocol, draft-li-individual-inip, Guorui Xie, 8 min. including Q&A
- Agentic Network Architecture and Protocol for Supporting Agent Interconnection Communication and Multi-level Inference, draft-chuyi-nmrg-agentic-network-inference, Chuyi, 8 min. including Q&A
- Agentic AI Architectural Principles for Autonomous Computer Networks, draft-jadoon-nmrg-agentic-ai-autonomous-networks, Muhammad Awais Jadoon, 8 min. including Q&A
- A Framework for LLM Agent-Assisted Network Management with Human-in-the-Loop, draft-cui-nmrg-llm-nm, Mingzhe Xing, 8 min. including Q&A
- Solutions for enabling agentic sensing with network optimization, draft-bernardos-nmrg-agentic-network-optimization, Carlos Jesus Bernardos Cano, 8 min. including Q&A