IETF | Suggested IETF 127 Sessions for Getting Familiar with New Topics

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These IETF 127 meeting sessions are likely to include discussions and proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time participants.
If you are a new IETF participant, or if you are an experienced participant who would like to get familiar with a new topic, there are many sessions at the IETF 127 San Francisco meeting that will include interesting discussions. Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions in particular may be interesting as BoFs are one way for potential new work to be discussed in the IETF community. A full agenda is available on the IETF Datatracker. Additional information about and links to session agendas will be added to this page as they are available.
If you are new to the IETF or just new to IETF meetings, please be sure to consider registering for the expanded New Participant Program. Once you've registered for the IETF 127 meeting, additional sign up is required via your participant dashboard for this free program on Sunday, 15 November 2026 at the meeting venue and via remote participation.
Even if you do not register for the IETF 127 meeting, you can watch live streams of selected sessions.
This post will be updated as more information for IETF 127 is available. Of particular note, agendas and other materials for sessions are posted very close to agenda times so please check the IETF Datatracker for the latest information.
Note: All times are PST (UTC -8)
IETF Hackathon Kickoff (separate free registration required) Continental 4 The IETF Hackathon is a two-day event where participants develop and test that their code can interoperate with others, or where new code is written, often to implement recent IETF work. The kickoff meeting describes all the projects that will go on this week; they are also already listed on the Hackathon wiki. Feel free to join an existing team to squash some bugs! You do not need to bring code; you can simply join a topic of interest and contribute to existing code, help with testing or in many other ways.
New Participant Program Continental 6 This free of charge program on Sunday, 15 November 2026 will take place at the meeting venue, with morning sessions (09:30-12:45) and afternoon sessions (14:00-15:30). After registering for the IETF 127 meeting, additional sign up is required via your participant dashboard. Participation in all sessions will be available via Meetecho. See the expanded New Participant Program webpage for details about all the sessions.
Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG) Golden Gate 3 The IEPG is an informal gathering that meets on the Sunday prior to IETF meetings. The IEPG sessions cover a wide range of operator and operational topics, and often include real-world measurements, discussions around deployment issues, as well as more academic research type presentations. Unlike IETF working groups, it does not work on or generate Internet-Drafts.
Hackathon Results Presentations Continental 4IETF Hackathon participants brief the group about what they accomplished.
New Participants' Quick Connections (Open to new participants only) Continental 3 The Quick Connections is a simple and effective way for new participants to be introduced to a variety of experienced IETF participants—often working group (WG) chairs, Area Directors