[IRTF-Announce] Call for Nominations: Applied Networking Research Prize 2024

[Colin Perkins <[e-mail]>]

# Applied Networking Research Prize 2024

https://www.irtf.org/anrp/

**Submit nominations for the 2024 award period of the Applied Networking 
Research Prize until November 19, 2023**

(Please share this announcement with your colleagues)

The Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) is awarded to recognise the 
best recent results in applied networking, interesting new research 
ideas of potential relevance to the Internet standards community, and 
upcoming people that are likely to have an impact on Internet standards 
and technologies, with a particular focus on cases where these people or 
ideas would not otherwise get much exposure or be able to participate in 
the discussion.

We encourage nominations of researchers with relevant research results, 
interesting ideas, and new perspectives. The award will offer them the 
opportunity to present and discuss their work with the engineers, 
network operators, policy makers, and scientists that participate in the 
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its research arm, the 
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). Both self- and third-party 
nominations for this prize are encouraged.

The Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) consists of:

   - a cash prize of $1000 (USD)
   - an invited talk at the IRTF Open Meeting
   - a travel grant to attend a week-long IETF meeting (airfare, hotel, 
registration, stipend)
   - recognition at the IETF plenary
   - an invitation to related social activities

In addition, prize winners may be offered additional travel grants to 
attend future IETF and/or IRTF meetings. Such grants are made at the 
discretion of the award committee, based on community feedback, 
engagement with the community, and potential future impact.

Applied Networking Research Prize awards are made once per calendar 
year. Each year, several winners will be chosen and invited to present 
their work at one of the three IETF meetings during the following year.

## How to Nominate

Nominations are for a single author of an original, peer-reviewed, 
journal, conference or workshop paper that was recently published or 
accepted for publication. The nominee must be one of the main authors of 
the nominated paper. Both self-nominations (nominating one’s own work) 
and third-party nominations (nominating someone else, with their 
permission) are encouraged.

The nominated paper should provide a scientific foundation for possible 
future engineering work in the IETF, or research and experimentation in 
the IRTF. It should analyse the behaviour of Internet protocols in 
real-world deployments or realistic testbeds, make an important 
contribution to understanding the scalability, performance, reliability, 
security or capabilities of the Internet, or otherwise be of relevance 
to ongoing or future IETF or IRTF activities.

Nominations must state how the nominated paper relates to these goals. 
They should describe how involving the nominee in the IETF and IRTF 
process, and bringing them to an IETF meeting, would help to foster the 
transition of the results and/or ideas into new IETF engineering work or 
IRTF experimentation, or otherwise seed new activities that will have an 
impact on the real-world Internet.

The goal of the ANRP is to foster the transitioning of research results 
into real-world benefits for the Internet. Therefore, applicants must 
indicate that they (or the nominee, in case of third-party nominations) 
are available to attend at least one of the IETF meetings in the 
following year. In-person attendance is desirable, where possible, but 
due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic remote participation options 
will be available for ANRP prize winners at all IETF meetings in 2024.

Nominations are submitted via https://www.irtf.org/anrp/ and must 
include:

   - the name and email address of the nominee;
   - a bibliographic reference to the published (or accepted) nominated 
paper;
   - a PDF copy of the nominated paper;
   - a statement that describes how the nominated paper fulfils the 
goals of the award and how the nominee would engage with the IETF and/or 
IRTF community;
   - a statement of the nominee's availability to present their work at 
the IETF meetings in during 2024;
   - a statement that the nominee accepts that the IRTF Intellectual 
Property Rights disclosure rules will apply to their award talk at the 
IRTF open meeting;
   - a brief biography or CV for the nominee; and
   - optionally, any other supporting information (link to nominee’s 
web site, etc.)

All nominees will be notified by email about the decision regarding 
their nomination.

Nominations for the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) are not 
considered to be contributions to the IETF or IRTF. However, the invited 
talks at the IRTF Open Meeting are considered to be contributions and 
the IRTF Intellectual Property Rights disclosure rules apply.

## Important Dates

Nominations close: November 19, 2023
Notifications: January 5, 2024

## Sponsors

The Applied Networking Research Prize is supported by the Internet 
Society in coordination with the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). 
Additional corporate sponsorship is kindly provided by Comcast and NBC 
Universal. If your organisation would like to support the ANRP, please 
contact [e-mail].