Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (cats) WG Agenda - IETF 126

• When: 2026-07-23 14:00-16:00 Vienna
• Co-Chairs: Adrian Farrel, Peng Liu
• Secretary: Cheng Li

Logistic

• Materials: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/session/cats
• Note taking: https://notes.ietf.org/notes-ietf-126-cats
• Meetecho: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf126/?group=cats\&short=cats\&item=1
• Zulip: https://zulip.ietf.org/#narrow/stream/cats

Compact Agenda

1. Agenda Bashing, Introduction, \& WG Status (10 min)

Chairs

2. WG Documents Update

2.1. CATS Metrics (15 min)

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

2.2. CATS OAM Framework (15 min)

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

3. Individual Documents

3.1 Protocols Applicability for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) (15 min)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yxl-cats-protocols-applicability/
Linda Dunbar

3.2. Yang Model for CATS (10 min)

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

Quan Xiong

3.3.Distribution of Service Metadata in BGP-LS (10 min)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ls-idr-bgp-ls-service-metadata/

Mengyao Han/Tianyi Huang

3.4.Computing Service Metric Definitions and Operation under CATS (10 min)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhangb-cats-service-metrics-op/

Yina Dai

3.5.Public Service Platform for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (10 min)

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

Yina Dai

3.6. Compute-Aware Traffic Steering for Midhaul Networks (10 min)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lcmw-cats-midhaul/

Tianji / Luis / Mark

3.7. Framework and Applicability of Computation-aware Traffic Steering (CATS) in Optical Transport Networks (OTN) (10 min)

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

Xiao

4. Open Disccusion (5 mins)