Discovery of Agents, Workloads, and Named entities (DAWN)

BoF Meeting at IETF-126, Vienna, Austria

Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Session III
14:00 - 16:00
Grand Park 3

Chairs

AD

evyncke@cisco.com

Logistics

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

Agenda

1. Administrivia and purpose of the BoF

Presenters: Chairs and ADs
Content: Usual meeting details. Purpose and non-purpose of BoF.
Time: 10 minutes (10/120)

2. Scene-setting, terminology, and problem statement

Presenter: Arashmid Akhavain (Huawei Canada)
Content: What are we talking about when we say "entity" and "discovery"? What is the essence of the problem to be solved?
References:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrel-dawn-terminology/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-akhavain-moussa-dawn-problem-statement/
Time: 15 minutes (25/120)

3. Overview of categories of use cases

Presenter: Kehan Yao (China Mobile)
Content: Broad-brush view of the use cases by category rather than details.
Reference:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kay-dawn-use-cases/
Time: 15 minutes (40/120)

4. Solution requirements

Presenter: Dan King (Old Dog Consulting)
Content: What does a solution need to include?
Reference:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-king-dawn-requirements/
Time: 10 minutes (50/120)

5. What the Community Needs to Decide

Presenters: Chairs
Content: High-Level Questions that Need to be Resolved
Time: 10 minutes (60/120)

6. Charter and WG Scope Discussion

Presenters: Chairs
Content: Review of the proposed charter and discussion
Reference:
https://github.com/danielkinguk/discovery/blob/main/charter/dawn-charter-02.md
Time: 55 minutes (115/120)

7. Wrap-up / Next steps

Presenters: Chairs and ADs
Time: 5 minutes (120/120)