[arch-d] New IAB Technical Program: Environmental Impacts of Internet Technology (EIMPACT)

A new IAB Technical Program has been formed on Environmental Impacts of 
Internet Technology (EIMPACT). For additional information, please 
contact the Program Leads.

Environmental Impacts of Internet Technology (EIMPACT) Program
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Program Leads: 

 • Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@gmail.com> - IAB
 • Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net>

Mailing list:

 • Address: e-impact@ietf.org
 • To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/e-impact
 • Archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/e-impact/

Program Page: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/eimpact/about/

Program Description:

The E-Impact Program is a venue for discussing environmental impacts 
and sustainability of Internet technology. Within this scope, the 
program looks at trends, issues, improvement opportunities, ideas, best 
practices, and subsequent direction of work related to Internet 
technology, architecture, and operations, including visibility and 
efficiency on energy and other environmentally-impacting attributes. In 
particular, the group focuses on Internet architecture's role in these 
topics.

The program targets topics not yet progressed into concrete standards 
or research efforts in the IETF or IRTF while also being a coordination 
point for work across multiple WGs/RGs, and a venue to highlight 
ongoing work in the IETF/IRTF as well as external SDOs. The program 
will use the existing E-Impact mailing list [2] as the venue for 
discussions.

The program's progress and the quality of discussion may point to the 
need to organize additional workshop(s) to continue the 2022 IAB 
workshop on the Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and 
Systems [1].

The program may work on documents that analyze areas where Internet 
technology faces challenges related to the program's topics or provide 
architectural guidance. Potential examples of such documents include 
ones that describe sustainable network architectures, and those that 
document tradeoffs between environmental impacts and other 
characteristics such as performance and availability. Publishing any 
document as an RFC will be at the discretion of the IAB.

The program intends to have regular virtual meetings along with 
periodic hybrid meetings that are co-located with in-person IETF 
meetings. The program is open to all interested participants, and its 
meetings will be publicly announced.

References:

    [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/eimpactws/about/
    [2] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/e-impact