¶ 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.
- 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
¶ 15:45 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 at 15:45 at the IETF Registration counter in the first floor foyer (outside of Park Hall rooms) for a quick toast + beverage to take on the tour.
If you're not joining for the tour, please meet us in the M2 Executive Lounge, on the terrace for light drinks. Please note: there's no food offered at this happy hour.
¶ 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) IANA updates/discussion (Sabrina)
- (not meeting relevant) New RPC document states and processing by the IESG (Jean)
- (meeting relevant) IDR Community Survey (Ketan/Med/Andy)
- (meeting relevant/time sensitive) IESG actions to operationalize RFC9945 (Roman)
- (meeting relevant) VELOCE experiment (Mahesh)
Note1: All agenda topics which don't finish on Sunday will be scheduled on Monday if deemed to have sufficient priority
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) (Suresh)
Management of IETF Liaison Relationships - 4052bis
Handling Liaison Statements - 4053bis- Update on proposed IAB Workshop on PQC (Nick, Yaroslav)
- (if there is time) Feedback from RIPE92 (Dhruv, Warren, Eric, Yaroslav, Gorry, Mathew)
¶ 14:00-1600: IAB afternoon meeting
¶ Evening Meeting Events
16:00-17:00 New Participant's Quick Connections
Room: Selleny's Bar
17:00-19:00 Welcome Reception
Room: Grand Park Hall 1/2/3
18:00-20:00 HotRFC Lightning Talks
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
- (time sensitive) Processing appeal(s) -- appeal1 and processes (Roman)
- (time sensitive) Meeting and Plenary Prep Part 1
- (not meeting relevant) Revised statement on AD sponsorship (Mahesh/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)
- (not meeting relevant, not urgent) IANA IP-related legacy registries (Éric)
¶ 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
¶ 08:00-08:50 IESG Meeting (Room: Park Suite 10)
Agenda:
- Executive Session: IETF LLC Board Slate confirmation
¶ 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
* Everything but BoFs
* BoFs- General discussion of productivity and how the meeting went (standing item)
* Use of 20u/40u/Offices going forwards (Jay/Paige)
¶ 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)
- 14:00 - 15:00 -- RTG AD Office Hours (Ketan/Jim/Gunter)
- 15:00 - 16:00 -- WIT AD Office Hours (Gorry Fairhurst, Mike Bishop)
- 16:00 - 17:00 -- DMSC BoF prep (Charles/Andy)
- 18:30 - 19:30 -- AgentProto BoF Prep (Charles/Andy)
¶ Monday, July 20, 2026
- TIME - TIME -- Thing (Person responsible)
- 1100 - 1130 (could be slightly longer though) -- Pre-BoF for DAWN (Éric V)
- 1245-1345 - Sec AD hours (Cooley/Inacio)
- 14:00 - 16:00 -- rdap-extensions/rdap-versioning Discussion (Med)
- 1630 - 1730 -- Roman
¶ Tuesday, July 21, 2026
- TIME - TIME -- Thing (Person responsible)
- 07:30 - 08:30 -- TDD Chairs Meeting - Andy
- 08:30 - 09:00 -- Ketan (FANN WG topics)
- 10:30 - 11:00 -- Med
- 11:00 - 11:45 -- Roman
- 16:00 - 16:30 -- DIEM - Charles
¶ Wednesday, July 22, 2026
- TIME - TIME -- Thing (Person responsible)
- 07:30 - 09:00 -- Benno is borrowing the room for the 2025 NomCom to meet (Benno/secretariat)
- 11:00 - 12:00 -- INT AD Office Hour (Éric/Tommy)
- 15:30 -16:00 -- IPPM/BMWG Joint Charter (Med)
- 16:30 - 17:15 -- Ketan (FANN & LSVR WG topics)
- 1800 - 1820 -- 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
- 12:30 - 13:30 - TDD Chairs Meeting - Andy/Med
- 1800-1830 - Sec AD - Deb/Chris
¶ Friday, July 24, 2026
PLEASE NOTE: NOT AVAILABLE AFTER 13:00
- TIME - TIME -- Thing (Person responsible)
- 07:30-08:50 -- Executive Session: Confirmation of LLC Board Candidate (Mike)
- 11:10-12:30 -- Netconf Transport - Gorry