[AusNOG] Hot topics at IETF91 next week, FYI

[Narelle]

I will catch the end of this meeting. Here are the hot topics:


   - Software-defined networking, virtualisation, and data models is a
   large cluster of current IETF work. The work relates to making network
   functions virtualised and network nodes programmable. The industry is only
   in its beginning stages of this big transformation. In Honolulu, the SDN
   and NFV research groups, the I2RS, NVO3,  SPRING, NETMOD and SFC working
   groups, and the I2NSF and ACTN BOFs discuss this topic. In addition, there
   is a lot of work on data models (such as this draft for BGP) in various
   working groups, with the intent to make it possible to program the network.
   - Privacy. The new DPRIVE working group will be designing solutions to
   make DNS traffic more private than it is today. The UTA working group
   continues its work to specify best practices for using TLS in applications.
   They have already published a document on attacks, and are now last calling
   their best practises document. The HTTPBIS working group continues their
   discussion of the upcoming HTTP 2.0 standard. One of the topics in the
   meeting is how the new standard should utilise opportunistic security.
   - Deterministic networking is about the ability to guarantee network
   throughput and delay for special applications, such as industrial control
   or video transmission. Deterministic L2 networks exist. The DETNET BOF
   proposal asks whether some L3 work is required.
   - Efficient multicast forwarding architectures. The bit-indexed explicit
   replication (BIER) BOF suggests a new architecture for multicast forwarding.
   - Archive media types (ARCMEDIA). This BOF asks whether a new top-level
   media type is needed for archive formats.
   - Transition of USG role in IANA to the community. The IANAPLAN working
   group is the place where IETF develops a plan for this transition. A
   working group last call for the proposal is currently ongoing. A lot of
   activity is going around this topic in the world. See here or here for some
   discussion of the overall situation.
   - Data-center latency. A new research group is proposed for this topic.


More commentary and working hyperlinks to WGs etc at:

http://www.ietf.org/blog/2014/11/honolulu-ietf-hot-topics/



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Narelle
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