IAB Strategy Meeting 2026 Planning

[dhruvdhody]

https://wiki.ietf.org/en/group/iab/2026_Retreat

[jlivingood]

I don't seem to be able to propose edits to that Wiki page. So suggestions below:

For all these -- I think we should cover that in regular mtgs beforehand, such as at the next IETF.

1. Evaluation of Formal and Informal Meeting Structure of the IAB, what can be done async, what is appropriate for Informal v/s Formal?
2. Evaluation of Meeting time rotations v/s Fixed time?
3. Why IAB does RG review and How we can improve on it?
4. Outreach Related Topics (IGF 2026 Planning)
5. ISOC Related Topics (ITU-T PP)
6. Improving collaboration with RIRs - possible admin support group - IETF-RIR
7. Improving collaboration with ICANN and coordination among ICANN appointees

Other brainstorming:

AI Opportunities for IETF?

• A2A comms
• Agent registry (like an IANA registry or distributed ala DNS)
• Agent response tagging (e.g. this response was from agent XYZ release version 2.1.4 region XYZ)

E2EE

• End of TLS 1.1, 1.2 (can we encourage the market to move on?)
• End of Do53 (a la the push on encrypting the web, should IAB push to eliminate plaintext DNS lookups?)
• PQC hybrid vs pure (the DJB root issue - should we explore?)
• Filling the gaps created by E2EE - deriving meta data for ops/security/measurement

Untrusted Devices

• IoT garbage continues to cause issue - any role for IAB here? Wider issue of assumed trust vs earned trust & security assurance?

BGP / Routing Tables

• What’s next? Everyone keeps saying BGP is old and the routing tables are getting too big. Is this really an issue to explore in terms of the broader architecture?

Bandwidth

• No longer matters (marginal utility is near zero) - which is a big change - do we want to note that or explore it?

What’s the next 5 years of the internet look like? What does it mean?