Session Date/Time: 20 Jul 2025 12:00

Hackathon Results Presentations

Summary

The IETF Hackathon Results Presentations session featured over 40 project presentations covering a wide range of networking technologies and protocols. The session began with a memorial presentation for Dave Täht, followed by technical presentations spanning topics including network modeling, authentication protocols, routing technologies, post-quantum cryptography, DNS security, network monitoring, and various IETF draft implementations. The presentations demonstrated significant interoperability testing, protocol implementations, and research contributions across multiple working groups.

Key Discussion Points

Memorial Presentation

Dave Täht Memorial: Frank presented a tribute to Dave Täht who passed away in April, highlighting his contributions to FQ-CoDel (RFC 8290), CAKE algorithm, IPv6 work, and his fight for router firmware freedom with the FCC
An informal wake was planned for Monday at 7 PM in El Escorial Room

Major Technical Areas Covered

Network Modeling and Management

SIMAP: Demonstrated topology modeling with external references and SRv6 extensions, achieving consensus on templates for operational state queries
Yang Provisioning: Presented updates on Yang Provenance Signature draft with Kafka integration and microservices verification
Mouseworld: Showcased network digital twins framework using Knowledge Graphs for creating twin networks in containerized environments

Authentication and Security

Agent Protocol Security: Developed identity and authorization systems for MCP protocol using W3C DID standards
EDHOC KEM-based Authentication: Implemented new authentication method for EDHOC using ML-KEM 512
Python Scrapers Authentication: Integrated authentication layers with popular web scraping tools

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Logger Danan: Successfully integrated PQC support (X25519 + ML-KEM-768 hybrid) across multiple CNCF projects
PQC in X.509: Continued three-year project with 50+ participants, focusing on composite signatures and key formats
PQ DNSSEC: Updated multiple implementations including BIND and CoreDNS with ML-KEM support

Routing and Network Protocols

ILNP: Demonstrated improved IPv6 addressing flexibility with successful domestic link testing showing 50% energy savings
SRv6: Multiple projects showcased SRv6 implementations including service function chaining and policy-driven routing
DETNET: Presented intelligent configurator with REST API for on-the-fly deterministic network configuration

Monitoring and Telemetry

Benchmarking Network Components: Applied CATS framework for joint compute-network capabilities exposure
Yang Push Validation: Successfully validated Yang Push across entire chain from router to Kafka consumers
Table Snoop: Implemented SRv6 support for Linux routing table lookup tracing tool

Emerging Technologies

SCONE: First hackathon for new working group, achieved successful client-server interoperability for adaptive bitrate applications
Interface to Network Computing: Enhanced autonomous vehicle control through natural language intent commands
Thread Protocol: Demonstrated 50% energy savings through intelligent Wi-Fi interface management

Interoperability Testing

Multiple Projects: Extensive interoperability testing conducted across various protocols including EDHOC PSK, NTP pools, and CBOR implementations
Cross-platform Support: Many projects demonstrated multi-platform compatibility and vendor interoperability

Decisions and Action Items

SIMAP: Moving to modeling phase, feedback requested from community on SRv6 models
Yang Push: Planning to address identified tooling issues and extend schema registry support
SCONE: Protocol specification clarifications to be addressed through GitHub issues
PQC Projects: Multiple implementations moving toward production readiness with vendor support
COSERV: Draft to be presented to RATS working group for adoption consideration

Next Steps

Hack Demo Happy Hour: Scheduled for Monday 7-8 PM for broader IETF community demonstrations
Working Group Presentations: Multiple projects scheduled to present findings in respective working group sessions throughout the week
Site Meetings: Various projects organizing side meetings during IETF week for continued collaboration
Draft Submissions: Several projects planning to submit or update Internet-Drafts based on hackathon results
Continued Development: Many projects established ongoing collaboration plans and next hackathon objectives

The session demonstrated strong collaboration between academia, industry, and standards organizations, with significant progress made on emerging technologies and protocol implementations that will contribute to future IETF standards development.