Using the IP Protocol Suite for Deep Space Networking -TIPTOP WG
​This presentation will describe the use case of deep space networking, the key considerations to deploy such a network, and its requirements. It will also describe the current plans of the space agencies and private sector for Moon and Mars deployments. It will then describe the proposed solution. This work is being standardized in IETF by the newly formed working group called TIPTOP (Taking IP to Other Planets). A description of the working group, milestones and current work will conclude the presentation.
Marc Blanchet is president of Viagenie, a consulting firm on Internet engineering. He has been involved in IETF for 35 years, wrote 17 RFC, co-chaired many IETF working groups, including DTN, and was an IAB member. He is the investigator of the Deep Space IP initiative which folded into the TIPTOP working group, where he is technical advisor and delegate. He is the founder of the Space Assigned Numbers Authority (SANA) which does a similar role to IANA, but for space communications standards of the CCSDS. He is currently leading the Moon networking governance group of the Interagency Operations Advisory Group (IOAG).
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AI Preference (AIPREF) WG
The IETF has started work to standardize the building blocks that allow for the expression of preferences about how content is collected and processed for Artificial Intelligence (AI) model development, deployment, and use. The work will be done at the newly created aipref (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/aipref/about/) working group. This talk will discuss the scope of the work, the expected deliverables and the timeline.
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Suresh Krishnan works as a Distinguished Engineer (Strategy, Incubation and Applications) at Cisco. He has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Madras in India and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University in Canada. He has chaired the dna, intarea, softwire and shmoo working groups in the IETF, the mobopts research group in the IRTF and has authored more than 40 RFCs across multiple IETF areas. He is a member of the Internet Architecture Board. He currently serves as a chair for the bpf(INT) and aipref(WIT) working groups. He has served as IETF Internet Area Director from 2016-2020.