Subject: Applied Networking Research Prize awards at IETF 112

From: Colin Perkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 19:56:43 +0100

I’m pleased to announce that the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) award talks for IETF 112 will be as follows:

Thomas Wirtgen <https://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/thomas.html> for his work on the extensibility of BGP implementations, and other routing protocols:

Thomas Wirtgen, Quentin De Coninck, Randy Bush, Laurent Vanbever, and Olivier Bonaventure, “xBGP: When You Can’t Wait for the IETF and Vendors <https://nsg.ee.ethz.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/publications/hotnet023-wirtgenA.pdf>”, Proceedings of ACM HotNets, 2020

Aqsa Kashaf <https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/akashaf/> for her work studying the effects of third-party service dependencies in the Internet

Aqsa Kashaf, Vyas Sekar, and Yuvraj Agarwal, “Analyzing Third Party Service Dependencies in Modern Web Services: Have We Learned from the Mirai-Dyn Incident? <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3419394.3423664>”, Proceedings of ACM IMC 2020

Kevin Bock <https://www.cs.umd.edu/~kbock/> for his work on Internet censorship:

Kevin Bock, George Hughey, Louis-Henri Merino, Tania Arya, Daniel Liscinsky, Regina Pogosian, and Dave Levin, “Come as You Are: Helping Unmodified Clients Bypass Censorship with Server-side Evasion <https://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/geneva_sigcomm20.pdf>”, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2020

Congratulations to all the winners! The award talks will be given as part of the IRTF Open Meeting during IETF 112, to be held online on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, from 16:00-1800 UTC. 

More information about the ANRP can be found at https://irtf.org/anrp/ <https://irtf.org/anrp/>. The ANRP is supported by the Internet Society and the IRTF, and sponsored by Comcast and NBC Universal.

Colin Perkins
IRTF Chair