Hi, we are extremely pleased to report that for the 2013 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP), 36 eligible nominations were received. Each submission was reviewed by eight members of the selection committee according to a diverse set of criteria, including scientific excellence and substance, timeliness, relevance, and potential impact on the Internet. Based on this review, four submissions were awarded an Applied Networking Research Prize in 2013. The fourth winning paper for 2013 will be presented at IETF-88 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The award for IETF-88 goes to: *** Idilio Drago *** for characterizing traffic and workloads of the Dropbox cloud storage system: Idilio Drago, Marco Mellia, Maurizio M. Munafo, Anna Sperotto, Ramin Sadre and Aiko Pras. Inside Dropbox: Understanding Personal Cloud Storage Services. Proc. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), November 2012, Boston, MA, USA. Idilio has been invited to present his findings in the IRTF Open Meeting during IETF-88 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Join him there! The call for ANRP nominations for the 2014 awards cycle will open in the fall of 2013. Read more about the ANRP at http://irtf.org/anrp. Please subscribe to the IRTF-Announce mailing list in order to receive future calls for ANRP nominations and join ISOC to stay informed of other networking research initiatives: http://irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/irtf-announce http://isoc.org/join Regards, Lars Eggert, IRTF Chair http://irtf.org/anrp Mat Ford, Internet Society http://isoc.org/research -- 2013 ANRP Selection Committee Mark Allman, ICIR Marcelo Bagnulo, UC3M Lou Berger, LabN Olivier Bonaventure, UCL Louvain Ross Callon, Juniper Lars Eggert, NetApp Olivier Festor, INRIA Mat Ford, ISOC Lisandro Granville, UFRGS Volker Hilt, Bell Labs Suresh Krishnan, Ericsson Dan Massey, Colorado State Al Morton, AT&T Laboratories Jörg Ott, Aalto University Colin Perkins, University of Glasgow Stefano Previdi, Cisco Jürgen Schönwälder, Jacobs University Bremen Yang Richard Yang, Yale Lixia Zhang, UCLA