RFC 9490 · INFORMATIONAL · 2024

Report from the IAB Workshop on Management Techniques in Encrypted Networks

Overview

RFC 9490, “Report from the IAB Workshop on Management Techniques in Encrypted Networks”, is an Informational document published in January 2024 by M. Knodel, W. Hardaker, T. Pauly. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

The "Management Techniques in Encrypted Networks (M-TEN)" workshop was convened by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) from 17 October 2022 to 19 October 2022 as a three-day online meeting. The workshop was organized in three parts to discuss ways to improve network management techniques in support of even broader adoption of encryption on the Internet. This report summarizes the workshop's discussion and identifies topics that warrant future work and consideration.

Note that this document is a report on the proceedings of the workshop. The views and positions documented in this report are those of the expressed during the workshop by participants and do not necessarily reflect IAB views and positions.

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