Re: [nwcrg] Updates on milestones

Hi All,

Inline.

> On 8 Apr 2019, at 14:45, Marie-Jose Montpetit <marie@mjmontpetit.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks again to everyone who showed up in Prague in person and on Meetecho.
> 
> One thing we now have to doahead of Montreal is to update our milestones and make sure all drafts are current. We may host a virtual interim to review these goals (date TBD).
> 
> In order to make sure our milestones are current here my review:
> 	- ICN/NC is well under way
> 	- NC and satellite -  same
> 	- SWIF open source codec same; both the related drafts and the hackaton outcomes
> 	- The Tetrys draft is outdated; we had however a goal of having a draft per code in nwcrg and are still on that course; we need advice from the authors
> 	- Interaction between network coding and congestion control: after a burst of interest this seems to have not gathered any further inputs; should we drop it?
> 	- QUIC and NC: we now have active contributors and we expect the activity to pick up with a goal of QUIC v2 implementation (including multipath)
> New potential milestones:
> 	- New topics related to programmable switching/data plane forwarding and NC (link to COINRG) - to be followed? It was not presented in nwcrg nor coinrg so is this a real interest?

We have been developing P4 programs (a language to program programmable data planes, PDPs) to run NC on these devices, but it is still work-in-progress. We are currently evaluating a first prototype in software, and we are now preparing the next stage: to run this in our hardware platforms (a SmartNIC based on NetFPGA, and a Barefoot Tofino switch). We should thus have something to share in the near future -- not necessarily in the next meeting, but hopefully soon.

We have been collaborating with a couple of other research groups around this topic, but besides us my feeling is that there is indeed interest in the community around this topic -- and generally on the opportunity PDPs offer to experiment new networking architectures at scale. For instance, last week I was in Dagstuhl organising a seminar on programmable data planes (https://www.dagstuhl.de/no_cache/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=19141 <https://www.dagstuhl.de/no_cache/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=19141> — a report will be out soon, and maybe a CCR editorial too), and several people seemed interested in this line of work.

Cheers,

Fernando

> 	- New topic on low delay coding - worth to be continued?
> 
> So list what do you think?
> 
> M/V
> 
> Marie-Jose Montpetit, Ph.D.
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