IETF 126 Highlights

The IETF 126 meeting was held 18–24 July 2026 at the Hilton Vienna Park in Vienna, Austria, and online, hosted by Cisco. The week included the IETF Hackathon and Code Sprint, the New Participants' Program, five Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions, and more than 100 working group and research group sessions. The Applied Network Research Workshop also took place during the IETF 126 meeting week.

IETF email infrastructure transition planned for 11 September

A transition to a new modern, modular, and containerized infrastructure for email services provided for ietf.org, iab.org, irtf.org, rfc-editor.org (including email lists) is scheduled for 11 September 2026 starting at 2200UTC, with message delivery delayed up to 60 minutes. Further updates will be provided closer to the transition.

• Dane Foster New Machine Futures Engineering Director

Post-Quantum Authentication: Up Next

Post-quantum key establishment has moved from standards into deployment. Post-quantum authentication has not moved nearly as far, and specification work is no longer the only constraint. The IAB is holding a workshop in Prague on 11 and 12 October 2026 to bring deployment experience together with the people working on the relevant protocols and standards.

• Nick Sullivan IAB Member
• Yaroslav Rosomakho IAB Member

IETF 126 post-meeting survey: what we heard

The IETF 126 Vienna meeting was held 18-24 July 2026 and the results of the post-meeting survey are now available.

• Paige Mustafa IETF LLC Director of Meeting Operations
• Akanksha Gohil IETF LLC Research and Insights Analyst

Meet our new IETF NOC Lead

Joe Clarke has been appointed as the new IETF NOC Lead and in this post Joe introduces himself and sets out his priorities for the IETF Network.

• Joe Clarke IETF NOC Lead