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RFCsWeLove is a meetup organized by the India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc). The last RFCsWeLove meetup was on 5th Feb 2022 (Saturday) with a focus on hearing directly from the four WG co-chairs based in India. Each of the IETF WG co-chairs provided an introduction to their WG, discussed the key problem areas the WGs are focusing on, some hot topics in the WG, and provided ideas for how to start contributing to their WGs. The chairs bring diverse and long history with

RFCsWeLove is a meetup organized by the India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc). The RFCsWeLove meetup was on the 1st Oct 2021 (Friday) with a focus on IPv6 Performance and Diagnostic Metrics (PDM) Version 2. The current IPv6 PDM (RFC8250) is an IPv6 Destination Options header that provides information based on the metrics like Round-trip delay and Server delay. This information helps to measure the Quality of Service (QoS) and to assist in diagnostics mainly for large e

This RFCsWeLove meetup was on Friday, 28th May with a focus on TLS Fingerprinting. It was our 22nd meetup and the 9th fully virtual one. We had a great set of topics with excellent speakers who brought in-depth knowledge in the field. Agenda Introduction by Mohit / Dhruv [Slides] Setting the scene by Tirumaleswar Reddy [Slides] TLS fingerprinting by Blake Anderson [Slides] TLS Fingerprinting TLS fingerprinting uses metadata in the TLS client_hello to map a TLS session to the

This RFCsWeLove meetup was on Friday, 2nd April with a focus on some interesting topics that were discussed at IETF 110. This was our 21st meetup and the 8th fully virtual one. We had a great set of topics with excellent new speakers lined up. Agenda Introduction by Dhruv [Link] Application-aware Networking (APN) by Shuping Peng, Huawei -- this talk will introduce this new work that was discussed at various WGs at IETF 110. [Link] Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO)

The 2021's first RFCsWeLove meetup was planned for Saturday, Jan 30th with a focus on Data Centers Technologies. This was our 20th meetup and the 7th fully virtual one. We had a great set of topics with excellent speakers for you who brought in-depth knowledge in the field. Agenda Introduction by Dhruv [Slide] Data Center Scaling via Supernode architecture by Tony Li [Slide] Integrated Network and Computing Resource for Datacenters by Nagendra Nainar [Slide] Data Center Scal

The October month's RFCsWeLove meetup was on the 30th of Oct 2020 (Friday) with a focus on IoT. This was our 19th meetup and the 6th fully virtual one. We had a great set of topics with excellent speakers for you who brought in-depth knowledge in the field. Agenda Introduction by Dhruv & Praneet [Slide] Software Updates for IoT (SUIT) by Brendan Moran [Slide] Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) TLS Profiles for IoT by Tirumaleswar Reddy [Slide] Software Updates for IoT (SUIT

The September month's RFCsWeLove meetup was on the 18th of Sept 2020 (Friday) with a focus on internet measurements. This was our 18th meetup and the 5th fully virtual one. We had a great set of topics with excellent speakers for you who brings in-depth knowledge in the field. Agenda Introduction by Dhruv Dhody [slide] Measuring the Internet using RIPE Atlas by Swapneel Patnekar [slide] Measurements related work at IETF by Shwetha Bhandari [slide] Measuring the Internet using

The August month's RFCsWeLove meetup was on the 28th of Aug 2020 (Friday) with a focus on some of the key presentations from the last IETF 108 online meeting held on 27-31 July 2020. This was our 17th meetup and the 4th fully virtual one. We had a great set of speakers from India and diaspora to deep dive into some of the presentations from the recent IETF 108. Agenda Seamless Segment Routing (SR) by Shraddha Hegde [Slide]. NeST: Network Stack Tester by Mohit P. Tahiliani [Sl

The July RFCsWeLove was on 17th July 2020 (Friday) focused on the outreach for the upcoming IETF 108 online meeting on 27-31 July 2020. This was our 16th meetup and the 3rd fully virtual one. We had a great set of speakers and panelist for you to help you navigate the upcoming IETF 108. Together they bring a lot of IETF experience and represent multiple stakeholders including academia, government and vendors. Agenda Introduction to IETF by Michael Richardson IETF participatio

Our second virtual RFCsWeLove took place on the 12th June 2020 (Friday). This was our 15th meetup and the 2nd fully virtual one. We had a great set of speakers with an excellent set of topics this time! Dhruv kicked off the session with an introduction to RFCsWeLove, IIESoc as well as upcoming IETF 108. [Slide]. The first talks was on the latest in DC routing by Russ White. DC Routing by Russ White [Slide] Abstract: BGP has been the "default" for DC fabrics since the publicat

Our first virtual RFCsWeLove took place today on 2nd May 2020. This was our 14th meetup and the first fully virtual one. We had around 35 folks attending the session live and many have expressed interest to go over the material offline. Dhruv Dhody kicked off the virtual event with an interactive presentation with introduction to RFCsWeLove, IIESoc, virtual IETF107 etc. Please find his slides including the audience inputs here. History of AQM technologies by Fred Baker [Slide

Our first RFCsWeLove in 2020 was held on 1st Feb in Bangalore at Juniper Networks. This was our 13th meetup and we had a very good mix of speakers and topics for this session. RFCsWeLove Agenda: Introduction, Highlights of Connections 2019 and IETF 106 by Dhruv Dhody, IIESoc Micro-loop avoidance by Bharath R, Juniper On state of SZTP (Secure Zero Touch Provisioning) and enhancements by Katta Sambasiva Rao, Juniper Analytics model for Network Devices by Sri Ram Sankar & Harsha

Our June RFCsWeLove (the 12th iteration) was held on the weekend in Bangalore at Zoomcar on 22nd June 2019. The meetup was focused on Routing aspects (primarily) and we had a very good mix of speakers and topics for this session. RFCsWeLove Agenda: Introductions by Dhruv, IIESoc EVPN - Next generation VPN for Ethernet by Senthil Dhanraj, Huawei SRV6, SRV6 Plus, ISIS extensions for SRV6 Plus by Rajesh/Parag, Juniper Why Intent-based networking will change the way we manage net

Our April RFCsWeLove (the 11th iteration) was held on the weekend in Bangalore at Blume Villa on 27th March 2019. The meetup was focused on security aspects and we had a very good mix of speakers and topics for this session. RFCsWeLove Agenda: Introductions by Dhruv, IIESoc DOTS (DDoS open threat signaling) by Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Mcafee What's new with Wi-Fi Security aka WPA3 by Mohit Sethi, Ericsson (remote) IKEv2 Optional SA&TS Payloads in Child Exchange [draft-kampat

Our first RFCsWeLove outside of Bangalore was held in Kolkata in collaboration with IICB. India IETF Capacity Building is a project conceived by ISOC Kolkata Chapter and approved by DeitY, Government of India. The meetup was help in TCS on 16th March 2019. We had a full day of event that included the activities of IICB in the first half and technical presentations as part of RFCsWeLove in the second half. IICB: Welcome Remarks by Anupam Agrawal, Chair – ISOC Kolkata Indian IE

The 2nd meetup of RFCs we love in 2019 was held at Go-Jek in Domlur on 2nd March 2019 in partnetship with Bangalore Mobile performance group. It was a great Saturday morning discussions on Transport and Applications are topics from experts in the field. We had the usual regulars as well a some new faces with a great discussions on Multipath Transports, SNI encryptions, DoH etc. Dhruv kicked off the day with welcoming the attendees and introducing the work done by IIESoc, RFC

The 1st meetup of RFCs we love in 2019 was held at The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) in Domlur on 19th Jan 2019. It was a great Saturday morning discussions on service provider and data center networks topics from experts in the field. We had the usual regulars as well a some new faces with a great discussions on BGP in Datacenters, Advancements in Multicast with BIER and Flex-Algo based TE. There was also an scrumptious south indian lunch, all thanks to our host - CIS

I would like to start by thanking the organizers, speakers and all my dear participants for making the RFCs We Love successful with lots of love and the vast amount of knowledge shared. The RFCs we Love as we all know was started with a vision to provide a forum to discuss and share Internet standardizations for computer networking professionals, academicians, researchers, network operators and programmers. The successful seventh event was organized on the 22nd September 2018

The sixth meetup of RFCs we love was held at Zoomcar in Domlur on 19th May 2018. It was a great Saturday morning discussions on IoT related topics from IoT practitioners, IoT developers, students and IETF enthusiasts. We had the usual regulars as well a some new faces with a great discussions on Compression in IoT protocols, Mesh networking and the deployment considerations with real IoT protocols at Zoomcar. There was also an existing demonstration on how the Zoomcar's rent

The fifth meetup of RFCs we love was held at Synup in Koramangala on 14th October 2017 . It was a small crowd on a rainy Saturday afternoon. There were two talks scheduled for the afternoon. The first talk was by Abhay Rana (@captn3m0) on HMAC: Keyed Hashing for message authentication. He started with explaing how hashing works with a focus on block-hashing and chaining. He then moved to explain the problems with earlier prevalent implementations with authenicating messages