The IAB agreed to add Liz Flynn to the IAB mailing list and Slack channel as backup Secretariat support for Cindy Morgan.
RG Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/nmrg/about/
Laurent Ciavaglia and Jérôme François updated the IAB on the current activities of the Network Management Research Group (NMRG).
NMRG is the oldest IRTF RG, running for 23+ years. The RG rechartered in 2020. It has published 8 RFCs, and has two more documents currently in IESG conflict review. The RG has held 65 meetings, co-located with IETF and scientific conferences. There are 418 users on the mailing list and their in-person meetings usually attract around 70 participants.
Engagement in NMRG has remained high during IETF meetings, but there has been lower participation in online interim meetings.
The current research agenda includes work on Intent-Based Networking (IBN), Artificial Intelligence in Network Management (AI-NM), and Self-Driving/-Managing Networks (SD/MN).
The IBN problem statement, design goals, and challenges were documented at a 2019 workshop at Network of the Future (NoF 2019). NMRG has two drafts on IBN that are currently in IESG conflict review:
Future plans include supporting diversified research outcomes via RFC publication (IBN, network digital twins) and scientific position papers (e.g. NM AI challenges).
Work items include:
NMRG is also looking at how it relates to other IRTF activities such as COINRG and T2TRG.
Mirja Kühlewind asked how successful NMRG has been at engaging researchers from outside the IETF community. Jérôme François replied that they try to involve non-IETF people by having colocated meetings at academic conferences.
Mirja Kühlewind said that in her experience, Research Groups are more helpful as a landing zone for researchers and a bridge to the IETF than as a publication venue. Laurent Ciavaglia agreed, noting that the main challenge is to maintain continuous involvement of research teams outside of NMRG meetings. NMRG has had some limited success attracting researchers who are not involved in the IETF.
Wes Hardaker asked if NMRG has seen any intent to deploy or commercial endeavors on the AI or IBN work. Laurent Ciavaglia replied that the core research topics of IDN have not been explored yet and he has not seen much work on it in academic conferences.
Colin Perkins noted that one of the recurring topics in the IAB is the effects of encryption, and asked whether this was a potential topic for NMRG, or if that is more in the standards space. Jérôme François replied that it is not currently a topic for NMRG; it would be up to the participants to decide whether they want to investigate it.
The IAB thanked the NMRG chairs for the update.
The following meeting minutes were approved:
• 2022-05-04 business meeting – (posted 2022-05-04)
• 2022-05-11 business meeting – (posted 2022-05-11)
– Sometime after IETF 113
* 2021-09-01: Jari Arkko to continue editing the document on the role of discovery in ensuring that Internet technology is broadly
applicable.
– Check back after 2022 IAB Retreat
Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/stream/iab/
IAB State: Community Review ends 2022-06-28
* draft-iab-mnqeu-report-01
IAB State: Active IAB Document
* draft-iab-path-signals-collaboration-00
IAB State: Active IAB Document
* draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-07
IAB State: Active IAB Document
* draft-iab-rfc7991bis-04
I-D Exists
* draft-iab-rfcefdp-rfced-model-13
RFC Editor Queue: Edit
Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/chartering/
Internal Review (on agenda of 2022-06-02 IESG telechat)
Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bof-requests
Transfer dIGital cREdentialS Securely (TIGRESS)
* bofreq-moskowitz-scvp-validation-request-tls-extension-00
SCVP Validation Request TLS Extension (VRTE)
* bofreq-lemon-stub-network-auto-configuration-for-ipv6-04
Stub Network Auto Configuration for IPv6 (SNAC)
* bofreq-hardie-media-over-quic-03
Media Over QUIC (MOQ)
* bofreq-birkholz-supply-chain-integrity-transparency-and-trust-scitt-08
Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency, and Trust (SCITT)
* bofreq-miller-json-web-proofs-00
JSON Web Proofs
* bofreq-hardjono-secure-asset-transfer-protocol-04
Secure Asset Transfer Protocol (SAT)
* Wes Hardaker to review
* bofreq-liu-multicast-source-routing-over-ipv6msr6-13
Multicast Source Routing over IPv6 (MSR6)
* Russ White to review
The IAB approved the formation of an IETF-IEEE administrative support group. Cindy Morgan will set this up in the Datatracker.
The IAB agreed to request a one-hour session for the IAB Open Meeting at IETF 114.
The IAB will continue discussions about who will serve as co-chair for the meeting on the email list.
The IAB agreed to proceed with seeking feedback on the incumbent to the Community Coordination Group appointment. Cindy Morgan will send out the call for feedback message.
The next IAB Meeting will be on 2022-06-15 at 0700 PDT.