Global Access to the Internet for All (GAIA) IRTF WG

IETF 126, Hybrid

• Date: 23 July 2026

• Time: 07:00 - 09:00 (GMT +2) 120 minutes

• Meeting Room: Park Suite 7

• Room video :https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf126/?session=35490

• Room audio: https://mp3.conf.meetecho.com/ietf126/35490.m3u

• Room chat: https://zulip.ietf.org/login/#narrow/stream/gaia

• Chair: Jane Coffin

• Chair: Kurtis Heimerl

• Chair: Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee

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Agenda

• Welcome, Agenda Bashing, Minutes taker, Note Well, other

• Kurtis Heimerl co-chair (10 min)

• Speakers

• Leonardo Maccari (University of Venice) — "Estimating the Economical Sustainability of Wireless Backhauls for Rural Areas" (20 Min)
• Leandro Navarro (UPC) — presenting the (hopefully final) draft on Operational Practices for Circular Device Management (20 Min)
• Marcelo Santos (Instituto Federal do Sertão Pernambucano, Brazil) — "Toward a Maturity Framework for Community Network Deployment: From Toolkits to Organizational Readiness" (20 Min)
• Steve Song (ISOC) — Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS), looking at transitioning it into an IETF RFC (20 Min)

• Kurtis Heimerl (University of Washington) - Unveiling and Engaging with the Humans of Networking Research (20 Min)

• Wrap Up (10 min)