We still have the view of the chair, not the speaker...
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:05:56.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "@meetecho how do we move \"speaker camera\" to the speaker instead of the chair?
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:07:02.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "Thanks!
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:07:29.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "Hi @angela, Wojtek reordered since you were late.
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:14:56.000Z"}, {"author": "Melchior Aelmans", "text": "Interesting presentation and congrats on your first one at the IETF!
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:22:11.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "@dave Plonka would love to hear more about that meeting going on in...Oklahoma, did you say?
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:22:44.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "There is also a lot of education-oriented work going on.
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:23:03.000Z"}, {"author": "Melchior Aelmans", "text": "You might want to consider leveraging space for longer range quantum communications. Less loss then in fiber hence you can span over 100km
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:25:25.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "Also, <advertising hat on> @dave see RFCs 9340 and 9583, and
\nhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02367
And https://www.youtube.com/@QuantumCommEdu/courses
\n<advertising hat off>
Tnx, Rod. will also share with my REN colleagues.
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:28:33.000Z"}, {"author": "Shane Kerr", "text": "Annoying that I have to learn about quantum position verification, which I never heard of but seems like cool magic. :wink:
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:33:26.000Z"}, {"author": "Junxiao Shi", "text": "While I don't understand most of draft-irtf-qirg-qi-multiplane-arch-02, Section 5.3.4. Quantum QoS Parameters is very nice reference for simulator designers.
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:35:14.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "Position verification is cool, but has caveats.
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:35:27.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "See the work of Harry Buhrman
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:35:32.000Z"}, {"author": "Dave Plonka", "text": "Aside (re: the earlier quantum network applications and R&E netoworks: here is the U.S. meeting I mentioned at the mic:
\nhttps://www.greatplains.net/2026/04/30/quantum-partnership-workshop-at-surf/
(performance accessing it from IETF network currently seems terrible. YMMV.)
", "time": "2026-07-21T12:38:49.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "Re: standardization, there will be a day-long workshop on standards for both quantum computing and quantum communications at IEEE Quantum Week in Toronto in September.
\nSee
\nhttps://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2026/qce26-schedule/workshop-schedule/
\nWKS::QPOLY::QSYS::31 - Quantum Sciences Standards \u2013 International Status
thanks for sharing Rod, this is interesting
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:34:53.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "Maybe we should be doing standards...?
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:36:38.000Z"}, {"author": "Wojciech Kozlowski", "text": "What would we standardise though?
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:38:34.000Z"}, {"author": "Melchior Aelmans", "text": "a research group cannot really do standards ;)
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:39:50.000Z"}, {"author": "Wojciech Kozlowski", "text": "*assuming a wg is established or elsewhere
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:40:17.000Z"}, {"author": "Melchior Aelmans", "text": "in that case there could be some things to standardize yes
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:40:42.000Z"}, {"author": "Wojciech Kozlowski", "text": "components I guess?
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:40:59.000Z"}, {"author": "Angela Cacciapuoti", "text": "components are still IMO immature, but it would be very interesting starting from the terminology, guess?
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:42:28.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "Obviously there is interest in standards. We would have to recharter (or spawn) QIRG-->QIWG.
\nNote I'm not actually suggesting this yet, but we should stay aware of this other work and keep it as an active thought, when this work moves from research-oriented drafts toward working-network, interoperability-focused RFCs.
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:43:42.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "Everything we are currently doing in QIRG is comfortably IRTF work.
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:44:08.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "The other standards bodies don't seem to have as clear a two-track approach as IETF<-->IRTF, so I think some of what is being done in those other orgs is closer to IRTF-like than IETF-like.
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:45:56.000Z"}, {"author": "Melchior Aelmans", "text": "Agree rechartering would be an option in the future. Terminology would be an interesting starting point. It has been tried in different fora already but never really succeeded imho.
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:47:24.000Z"}, {"author": "Dave Plonka", "text": "Aside, re: Rod's comment... in the example, using the IPv6 documentation prefix (2001::db8::) would be nice (instead of RFC1918.)
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:52:56.000Z"}, {"author": "Dave Plonka", "text": "2001:db8:: (typo'ed before)
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:53:25.000Z"}, {"author": "Angela Cacciapuoti", "text": "we could be the right forum (at least I hope) since we have also technical depth in the quantum domain and not only in the classical one. My impression is that in other fora this is not always the case
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:53:42.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "@Melchior I think working on terminology is good, and converging on it is incredibly valuable, but it's hard to impose top-down, it needs to be a real working-person's consensus.
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:54:14.000Z"}, {"author": "Rodney Van Meter", "text": "Moreover, it doesn't need to be standards, I think an RG is fine.
", "time": "2026-07-21T13:57:25.000Z"}]