Re: [irtf-discuss] Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) awards for IETF 109

[Rodney Van Meter <[e-mail]>]

As always, the *individuals* being awarded are highly worthy.  I have no complaints against them or their advisors or their work.

But when the *system* bubbles up from the same sources again and again, then a lot of *current* good work goes unrecognized, and the people and institutions on the margins aren’t encouraged, and new blood stops coming in.

I’m not tracking networking conferences as closely as I used to (ask me about quantum, though!), but I’ll try to check some of smaller venues for recent interesting work for this year’s nominations.  There are a lot of regional conferences and smaller workshops where, to be frank, much of the work counts as a good first step, but there are also gems out there.  It shouldn’t always be SIGCOMM, INFOCOM, NSDI.

Again, congrats to this time’s winners, good work!

—Rod

Rodney Van Meter
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Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan

> On Sep 29, 2020, at 7:57, Joseph Touch <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Colin,
> 
> FWIW, it would be nice if these awards didn’t constantly seem to go to groups already heavily entrenched in the IETF (granted the students are new, but the advisors don’t seem to be).
> 
> Joe
>