RFC 9817 on Use Cases for In-Network Computing

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        RFC 9817

        Title:      Use Cases for In-Network Computing 
        Author:     I. Kunze,
                    K. Wehrle,
                    D. Trossen,
                    M-J. Montpetit,
                    X. de Foy,
                    D. Griffin,
                    M. Rio
        Status:     Informational
        Stream:     IRTF
        Date:       August 2025
        Mailbox:    kunze@comsys.rwth-aachen.de,
                    wehrle@comsys.rwth-aachen.de,
                    dirk@dapadot-tech.eu,
                    marie-jose.montpetit@slices-ri.eu,
                    xavier.defoy@interdigital.com,
                    d.griffin@ucl.ac.uk,
                    miguel.rio@ucl.ac.uk
        Pages:      39
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-irtf-coinrg-use-cases-07.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9817

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9817

Computing in the Network (COIN) comes with the prospect of deploying
processing functionality on networking devices such as switches and
network interface cards.  While such functionality can be beneficial,
it has to be carefully placed into the context of the general
Internet communication, and it needs to be clearly identified where
and how those benefits apply.

This document presents some use cases to demonstrate how a number of
salient COIN-related applications can benefit from COIN. 
Furthermore, to guide research on COIN, it identifies essential
research questions and outlines desirable capabilities that COIN
systems addressing these use cases may need to support.  Finally, the
document provides a preliminary categorization of the described
research questions to source future work in this domain.  This
document is a product of the Computing in the Network Research Group
(COINRG).  It is not an IETF product and it is not a standard.

This document is a product of the Computing in the Network Research Group of the IRTF.

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