IETF 125 HotRFC Talk Solicitation

[Liz Flynn <[e-mail]>]

Do you have an idea, problem space, or proposal that IETFers and IRTFers 
should hear about?

Do you want to propose IETF or IRTF work but aren’t sure if your idea is 
ready or who else will be interested?

Agenda requests are being accepted for the Request for Conversation 
(HotRFC) lightning talk session.

Presenters will have 4 minutes to make their case for conversations. 
Interested folks can contact the presenter and continue the discussion 
after the session.

Goals include encouraging brainstorming conversations, helping new work 
proposers find collaborators, raising awareness of relevant work going 
on elsewhere, and promoting BarBoFs. Past HotRFC lightning talks have 
covered a broad range of purposes, including:

- Collaboration: proposals for new standards work or new research topics 
that haven't been discussed elsewhere, potentially relevant research 
that may be ready for the IETF

- Notification: new topics on the agenda in a BOF, working group or 
research group, especially cross-area IETF work

- Enlightenment: updates on relevant technologies, industry advances 
that could affect IETF participants.
With strict time limits, concise talks will give viewers a sense of 
whether they’d like to know more and, importantly, coordinates on how to 
do so.

With the current hybrid IETF meeting format, we’re going to keep things 
simple and permit only live presentations, either on-site or remote via 
MeetEcho. Slides must be submitted in advance.

To request a slot, submit a short abstract to [e-mail] no later 
than Friday, 2026-03-20, 2400 local meeting time that includes the 
following:

- Talk title
- Presenter, Affiliation, and whether you’ll be presenting in person or 
remotely
- Short topic abstract (topics should be IETF- or IRTF-related in some 
way)
- What you're looking for (education, collaborators, implementers, etc.)
- Coordinates to learn more, contact those involved, participate in 
existing mailing lists and scheduled meetings, and/or relevant formal or 
side meetings.
- Any relevant drafts or helpful resources you’d like collaborators to 
look at

To provide slides, submit ppt or pdf to [e-mail] no later than 
Saturday, 2026-03-21, 2400 local meeting time.

Talk abstracts and slides will be posted on the meeting agenda. The 
agenda will be updated as requests come in.

The session will be on Sunday, 2026-03-15, at 1800 local IETF meeting 
time

All talks will be presented live, whether in-person or via MeetEcho.

Video of the session will be recorded for later viewing.

We hope you’ll tune in!

-- the HotRFC team

P.s. If you think holding a public side meeting would be useful for 
people who are interested in your topic, there’s a space for that! See 
https://www.ietf.org/meeting/side-meetings/ for more details.