¶ IETF 126 - Vienna, Austria
This is a space to organize schedules and meeting topics for the upcoming IETF meeting; it will be cleared afterwards and reused for the next meeting.
¶ Quick Links
¶ Candidate Meeting Topics
Please add any topics for either IESG only meetings at IETF 126, or the joint meetings with the IAB.
- Joint session: 4052bis and 4053bis (Suresh Krishnan)
- Joint session: IAB Workshop Proposal for PQC (Nick)
- Joint session: Feedback from RIPE92 (Dhruv, Warren, Eric, Yaroslav, Gorry) (if there is time)
- At some point the WIT ADs need to mention that the second part of WITArea meeting (Wed) will be about "Foo over Internet Transport", recognising there are now >12 drafts proposed across many areas (Gorry/Mike).
¶ IESG Activities
¶ Saturday, July 18, 2026
Not-required activities:
Hackathon, 09:30-20:00
Room: Grand Klimt Hall 1/2
Code Sprint, 10:00-18:00
Room: Park Suite 10
¶ 17:00 AMS-IETF Leadership Venue Tour & Happy Hour
The Secretariat hosts a tour of the meeting space for leadership, followed by a happy hour. It's a good opportunity to learn your way around the venue and socialize with IAB, IESG, LLC, Secretariat, etc.
Please meet us in TBD, to begin our tour. If you are only joining for the happy hour, we will be in TBD by 17:20
¶ Sunday, July 19, 2026
Not-required activity:
Hackathon, 08:30-15:00
Room: Grand Klimt 1/2
¶ 09:30-11:30 - IESG Meeting (Room: Grand Klimt 3)
Meetecho: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf126/?session=1001
- (meeting relevant) BCP reclassification from PROCON (Roman)
- (time sensitive) Processing any appeal(s) (Roman)
- (not meeting relevant) New RPC document states
- (not meeting relevant) Revised statement on AD sponsorship (Mahesh/Roman)
- (not meeting relevant) Statement on Balloting procedures for charters (Ketan/Roman)
- (not meeting relevant) Refine the outstanding requests on enhancing Datatracker participant profiles (Med/Mike)
- (not meeting relevant) RFC 3967 and unpublished I-D (Mahesh)
Note1: All agenda topics which don't finish on Sunday will be scheduled on Monday
Note2: Topics are prioritized if linked to IETF 126 events or if they are time sensitive
¶ 11:45-13:45 - Joint IAB/IESG Lunch & Meeting (Room: Grand Klimt 3)
Meetecho: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf126/?session=1001
- Welcome and introductions (5 min)
- Area walkthrough for hot topics (45 min)
Random order: WIT, ART, SEC, GEN, IAB, OPS, IRTF, RTG, INT- Liaison RFCs bis Update (15 min)
- Update on IAB Workshop Proposal for PQC (Nick)
- (if there is time) Feedback from RIPE92 (Dhruv, Warren, Eric, Yaroslav, Gorry)
Evening meeting events:
New Participant's Quick Connections 16:00-17:00
Room: Selleny's Bar
Welcome Reception 17:00-19:00
Room: Grand Park Hall 1/2/3
HotRFC Lightning Talks 18:00-20:00
Room: Grand Klimt 2
¶ Monday, July 20, 2026
¶ 07:30-08:50 - IESG Meeting (Room: Grand Klimt 3)
Meetecho: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf126/?session=1002
¶ 12:45-13:45: IETF-3GPP Coordination (Room: Grand Klimt Hall 3)
Meetecho: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf126/?session=1003
¶ Tuesday, July 21, 2026
No IESG meeting. IAB has a breakfast meeting.
¶ Wednesday, July 22, 2026
¶ 07:30-08:50 IESG Meeting (Room: Grand Klimt 3)
Meetecho: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf126/?session=1005
Agenda:
- Plenary Slide Review + Prep
¶ 17:30-19:30 - IETF 126 Plenary (Room: Grand Park Hall 1/2/3)
¶ Thursday, July 23, 2026
No IESG breakfast. IAB has a breakfast meeting.
¶ 08:00-08:45 OPS AD Hours IESG Office, Park Suite 10
¶ 11:00-11:30 - Ask Me Anything about AD Job
Non-required event "organised" by Éric with support of Gunter (NomCom liaison), Chris, Gorry, Mahesh
Basically explaining to potential nominees and interesped people what does an AD do
Room: IESG office, Park Suite 10
Non-required event:
New Participants' Social Hour Time: 18:45-19:45
Room: Lenz Restaurant
Opportunity to socialize with new participants and hear how their meeting week has been
¶ Friday, July 24, 2026
¶ 12:30-14:00 - Joint IAB/IESG Lunch and Meeting (Room: Grand Klimt 3)
Meetecho: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/ietf126/?session=1007
- Welcome
- Post-meeting review (randomized)
Random order: IAB, SEC, INT, ART, OPS, IRTF, RTG, GEN, WIT- General discussion of productivity and how the meeting went (standing item)
¶ Reservations for IESG Meeting Room
Location: Park Suite 10
Conference style for 16
This room is available for anyone on the IESG, for AD office hours or any meetings with individuals or small groups. The LLC has asked that we track general categories of usage for this room. Please include your name so we know who is responsible for each meeting.
If you would like your meeting to be added to the main meeting agenda, please email support or ask Liz directly!
¶ Sunday, July 19, 2026
PLEASE NOTE: NOT AVAILABLE BEFORE 09:00
- TIME - TIME -- Thing (Person responsible)
- 13:00 - 14:00 -- AGENTPROTO BoF Prep (Charles/Andy)
- 14:00 - 15:00 -- RTG AD Office Hours (Ketan/Jim/Gunter)
- 15:00 - 16:00 -- WIT AD Office Hours (Gorry Fairhurst, Mike Bishop)
¶ Monday, July 20, 2026
- TIME - TIME -- Thing (Person responsible)
- tbc: 1100 - 1130 (could be slightly longer though) -- Pre-BoF for DAWN (Éric V)
- 1245-1345 - Sec AD hours (Cooley/Inacio)
¶ Tuesday, July 21, 2026
- TIME - TIME -- Thing (Person responsible)
- 07:30 - 08:30 -- TDD Chairs Meeting - Andy
¶ Wednesday, July 22, 2026
- TIME - TIME -- Thing (Person responsible)
- 09:00 - 11:00 -- draft-ietf-regext-rdap-extensions -- Andy on behalf of Med
- 11:00 - 12:00 -- INT AD Office Hour (Éric/Tommy)
- 15:30 -16:00 -- IPPM/BMWG Joint Charter (Med)
- 1800 - 1830 -- Pre-Plenary relaxation time (Éric V)
¶ Thursday, July 23, 2026
- TIME - TIME -- Thing (Person responsible)
- 07:30 - 08:30 -- DISPATCH Chairs Meeting - Andy
- 11:00 - 11:30 - Ask Me Anything about AD Job - Éric
¶ Friday, July 24, 2026
PLEASE NOTE: NOT AVAILABLE AFTER 13:00
- TIME - TIME -- Thing (Person responsible)
- 11:10-12:30 -- Netconf Transport - Gorry