[IRTF-Announce] Applied Networking Research Prize presentations at IETF 122

[Colin Perkins]

I'm pleased to announce that the Applied Networking Research Prize 
awards for IETF 122 will go to:

[Changjie Wang](https://www.kth.se/profile/changjie) for his work on the 
use of large-language models to support network configuration:

  - Changjie Wang, Mariano Scazzariello, Alireza Farshin, Simone 
Ferlin, Dejan Kostić, and Marco Chiesa, [NetConfEval: Can LLMs 
Facilitate Network Configuration](https://doi.org/10.1145/3656296), 
Proceedings ACM CoNEXT 2024.

[Henry Birge-Lee](https://henrybirgelee.com/) for his work on secure 
collaborative path control in BGP:

  - Henry Birge-Lee Sophia Yoo, Benjamin Herber, Jennifer Rexford, and 
Maria Apostolaki, [TANGO: Secure Collaborative Route Control across the 
Public 
Internet](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/presentation/birge-lee), 
Proceedings USENIX NSDI 2024.

The presentations and award talks will take place during the IRTF Open 
Meeting at IETF 122 in Bangkok in March 2025. A live stream will be 
available at https://www.ietf.org/live/ for those unable to attend in 
person.

The Applied Networking Research Prize recognises the best recent 
results in applied networking research, interesting new research ideas 
of potential relevance to the Internet standards community, and 
people who are likely to have an impact on Internet standards 
and technologies in the future.

The ANRP is supported by the Internet Society and the IRTF, and 
sponsored by Comcast and NBC Universal.

Colin Perkins
IRTF Chair