The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is holding a Hackathon to encourage developers to discuss, collaborate and develop utilities, ideas, sample code and solutions that show practical implementations of IETF standards.
When: Monday - Friday, July 19 - 23, 2021
Where: IETF 111 is an online only meeting and so is the Hackathon.
Sign up for the Hackathon here: Register.
View the list of registered Hackathon attendees: Here
IETF gather.town link:
Keep up to date by subscribing to https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/hackathon
The Hackathon is free to attend and is open to everyone. It is a collaborative event, not a competition. Any competition is friendly and in the spirit of advancing the pace and relevance of new and evolving internet standards.
Hackathon
- Monday July 19, 2021
- Hackathon Kickoff, 1200-1400 PDT, 1900-2100 UTCRecording
- Monday July 19 - Friday July 23
- Friday July 23, 2021
NOTE: You will need a datatracker account to login to the Hackathon Meetecho sessions and gather.town. When you register for the hackathon, you are sent a separate email to create a datatracker account. If you already have a datatracker account, please ensure that the email address you registered with is added to your account. If you received the email but the link to create an account has expired, please see the instructions below:
- Go to https://datatracker.ietf.org/accounts/create/
- Select ‘new account’ from the User menu at the top
- Enter the email address that you registered with for the hackathon
- Follow the instructions in the email you receive
¶ Participant Preparation and Prerequisites
- Choosing a Project
- Champions post and lead projects
- How and when teams meet during the week is up to them
- Details on each project and links to additional information for each project are in this wiki in the "Projects Included in Hackathon" section
- Familiarity with technology area(s) in which you plan to participate will certainly help
- It is perfectly fine, even encouraged, to work on multiple projects
- Lost & Found
- Participants looking for a team and champions wanting help on their projects are encouraged to visit the Lost & Found.
- Development Environment
- Bring a laptop on which you are comfortable developing software
- Some projects may require installing additional software or make use of VMs
- Installing and becoming familiar with !VirtualBox, Vagrant, or something similar will help
- Specific coding languages are called out by some projects (e.g. Python, Java), but this is heavily dependent on the project(s) you choose
- Sharing Code
- Git/GitHub is commonly used for open source projects. Familiarizing yourself with it is recommended.
- An online tutorial is available here: Git Tutorial
- IETF Hackathon GitHub Org
- If you would like to have your project/code hosted here, send your GitHub ID and the name of your project via email to Charles Eckel: eckelcu@cisco.com
- Training Materials
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Network programmability based on IETF standard protocols and models is relevant to many projects. Self paced online training modules are available on Cisco DevNet. Access is free but a !DevNet account is required. You can login or create an account quickly with this IETF Hackathon specific link IETF 111 Hackathon
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Champions for each technology are encouraged to share any other things they think would be helpful in preparation for the hackathon
- Project Presentations
- All teams have the opportunity to present what they did on during the closing session at the end of the hackathon
- [https://github.com/IETF-Hackathon/ietf111-project-presentations] is for IETF hackathon participants to upload their hackathon project presentations
- You must be a member of the IETF-Hackathon GitHub org to upload a new presentation or update/replace an existing presentation
- To be added as a member, email Charles Eckel: eckelcu@cisco.com your GitHub ID at your earliest convenience
- DO NOT WAIT until just before hackathon project presentations start or your request may be lost in the chaos
Access to virtual IETF network
- The NOC team has an ongoing experiment that allows you to join the IETF network while attending the meeting remotely.
How to: http://wiki.ietf.org/meeting/111/hackathon/hacknet_instructions
Champions can request a Webex account they can use to schedule meetings for their team. These are similar to the Webex accounts allocated to working group chairs to be used for virtual interim meetings. An account can be requested by a team champion at any time. Accounts will remain active and available for use until the end of August 2021. Request your account HERE. In the request form, you can use your project name where it asks for "Working Group Name".
In addition to registering for the hackathon and subscribing to the hackathon list, it is recommended to monitor both the hackathon wiki and the list as the hackathon approaches, determine which project(s) are of interest to you, and reach out to the champions of those projects to determine how best to be involved and coordinate with the rest of the team working on each project.
Champions are welcome and encouraged to list times and mechanisms for collaborating with their team in the Team Schedule. Participants can use this page to determine how and when to reach other team members.
The hackathon kickoff and the closing presentations will be available via Meetecho. The hackathon Jabber room may be used for general and project specific communication.
¶ IPR and Code Contribution Guideline
All hackathon participants are free to work on any code. The rules regarding that code are what each participant's organization and/or open source project says they are. The code itself is not an IETF Contribution. However, discussions, presentations, demos, etc., during the hackathon are IETF Contributions (similar to Contributions made in working group meetings). Thus, the usual IETF policies apply to these Contributions, including copyright, license, and IPR disclosure rules.
- Note, all projects are open to everyone. However, some champions have identified their projects as being particularly good for first time IETFers and/or first time hackathoners. These projects are marked with a star, i.e. '*'. If you are championing a project that is great for newcomers, please add a * at the end of your project name.
ANIMA
Network Telemetry with BMP and YANG Push
- Champion(s)
- Thomas Graf (thomas.graf at swisscom.com), Paolo Lucente (paolo at ntt.net), Pierre Francois (pierre.francois at insa-lyon.fr)
- YANG Push RFC and Draft(s)
- YANG Project(s)
- Development of an open-source example YANG push UDP and HTTPS publisher.
- Development of an open-source YANG push UDP and HTTPS receiver.
- Perform interoperability tests.
- BMP RFC and Draft(s)
- BMP Project(s)
- Perform performance tests. Measure impact on BGP propagation delay and BMP metric loss.
- Visualize BGP routing and peering topology with BMP and forwarding impact of topology changes with IPFIX metrics.
BMWG - YANG model and implementation of Network Interconnect Tester
EAT / CWT libraries tools and test vectors -- Entity Attestation Token, RATS WG
- Champion(s)
- Laurence Lundblade (lgl at island-resort.com)
- Thomas Fossati (thomas.fossati at arm.com)
- Sergei Trofimov (sergei.trofimov at arm.com)
- Yogesh Deshpande (yogesh.deshpande at arm.com)
- Project(s)
- ctoken -- Add more claims and formats to this C library implementing EAT and CWT for embedded device and other
- xclaim -- Add more claims and formats to this command line tool for creating, signing and verifying EATs and CWTs (and someday JWTs)
- EAT Test Vectors -- Add more test vectors to this collection of valid and invalid EAT tokens
- Port any of the above to new OS's or environments
- Veraison Attestation Results
- Veraison Endorsements
- Anything else you'd like to add to these.

- Specifications:
- Repositories (see issues list in these repositories for small tasks and big tasks)
TEEP
- Champion(s)
- Dave Thaler
- Project(s)
- Integrate TEEP + COSE
- Integrate TEEP + SUIT
- Integrate TEEP + EAT (RATS)
CoAP Group Communication with Group OSCORE
- Champion(s)
- Rikard Höglund <rikard.hoglund at ri.se>
- Marco Tiloca <marco.tiloca at ri.se>
- Project
- Verify that group key derivation from group context
- Verify that key pair derivation from group context
- Send and Reply to group messages with group context
- Send and Reply to group messages with paired group context
- Note on networking:
- Specifications:
ACE Group Key Manager
- Champion(s)
- Marco Tiloca <marco.tiloca at ri.se>
- Rikard Höglund <rikard.hoglund at ri.se>
- Project
- Send requests to an OSCORE Group Manager to join an OSCORE group and obtain the keying material
- Specifications:
EDHOC
- Champion(s)
- Marco Tiloca <marco.tiloca at ri.se>
- Rikard Höglund <rikard.hoglund at ri.se>
- Project
- Establish keying material for OSCORE using the EDHOC protocol
- Specifications:
IP Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (IPWAVE) Basic Protocols
- Champion(s)
- Jaehoon Paul Jeong
- Yiwen (Chris) Shen
- Project(s)
- IP-Based Context-Aware Navigation Protocol (CNP)
- This project develops a vehicular communication system for safe and secure driving using IPWAVE protocols.
- Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.11-OCB (IPv6 over 802.11-OCB)
- New Vehicular Mobility Information (VMI) option for IPv6-based vehicular network with ICMPv6.
- The new IPv6 ND options development and verification for vehicular networks using raw socket-based ICMPv6.
- ND messages exchange with CC and EC options.
- Specifications:
- Where to get code:
- Video clip demo:
Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) Framework
- Champion(s)
* Jaehoon Paul Jeong
BMWG – Containerized Infrastructure Benchmarking
- Champion(s)
* Younghan Kim
- Quang Huy Nguyen(huynq at dcn.ssu.ac.kr)
- KJ Sun(gomjae at dcn.ssu.ac.kr)
- Project(s)
- Benchmarking packet loss rate with different acceleration technologies
- Performance Impact depending on NUMA
- vSwitch & NIC on same NUMA node - CNF & vSwitch on different NUMA node
- vSwitch & NIC & CNF on same NUMA node
- vSwitch & NIC on different NUMA node - CNF & vSwitch on same NUMA node
- vSwitch & NIC on different NUMA node - CNF & vSwitch on different NUMA node
- Specification(s)
QUIC measurements
- Champion(s)
- Mauro Cociglio (mauro.cociglio at telecomitalia.it)
- Jari Arkko (jari.arkko at ericsson.com)
- Project(s)
- New measurement mechanisms!
- PR merging
- Spindump maintenance
- Testing
Confidential DNS
- Champion(s)
- Jiri Novotny (jiri.novotny at ericsson.com)
- Jari Arkko (jari.arkko at ericsson.com)
- Project(s)
- Interop testing, new features for confidential-computing based DNS resolvers
- Other ideas welcome
IoT Device Management
Bigbang
Tools for quantitative analysis of IETF mailing lists and docs.
- Champion(s)
- Nick Doty (npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu)
- Project(s)
- Improve linking across datasets (such as the datatracker, document publications, mailing lists)
- Participant affiliations
- Retention/tenure of participants
- Auto-generate documentation
- Issues
- Links
T2TRG/WISHI/ASDF/CoRE
See more at: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/t2trg/
Equality of sdfObjects
- Champion(s)
- Cornelius Schulz-Trieglaff (schulztr@uni-bremen.de)
- Project(s)
- implementing a tool for checking sdfObjects for semantic equality
- Repository
SDF WoT Converter and SDF protocol bindings
- Champion(s)
- Jan Romann (jan.romann@uni-bremen.de)
- Project(s)
- Further develop a library and command-line tool that can convert between SDF and both Web of Things (WoT) Thing Descriptions (TDs) and Thing Models (TMs)
- So far only the conversion between SDF and WoT TMs works (and is still WIP).
- Continue working on a proposal for SDF protocol bindings which can be used to complement SDF models
- Repository
- Issues
- Demo
ID Visualizations*
- Champion(s)
- Kesara Rathnayake (
kesara at fq.nz)
- Project(s)
- Create an animated visualization of how IDs has been worked on over the time using https://gource.io
- Repository
- Links
MASQUE Interop testing
- Champion(s)
- Marcus Ihlar (marcus.ihlar at ericsson.com)
- Magnus Westerlund (magnus.westerlund at ericsson.com)
- Project(s)
- HTTP3 Datagrams
- CONNECT-UDP
Don’t see anything that interests you? Feel free to add your preferred technology to the list, sign up as its champion and show up to work on it. Note: you must login to the wiki to add content. If you add a new technology, we strongly suggest that you send email to !hackathon@ietf.org to let others know. You may generate interest in your technology, and find other people who want to contribute to it.
TEMPLATE: Copy/paste and update the following template to add your project to the list:
Your-Technology-Name
* Champion(s)
* tbd
* Project(s)
* tbd
To edit the wiki, log in using your IETF datatracker login credentials. If you don't yet have an IETF datatracker account, you may get one by going here [https://datatracker.ietf.org/accounts/create/] and requesting a new account.