********************************************************************** The call for ANRP nominations for the 2015 awards cycle is now open! Read more about the ANRP at http://irtf.org/anrp. DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 31, 2014 ********************************************************************** Hi, we are extremely pleased to report that for the 2014 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP), 46 eligible nominations were received. Each submission was reviewed by four 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, six submissions were awarded an Applied Networking Research Prize for 2014. The final three prize winners for 2014 will present their work at IETF-91 in Honolulu, HI, USA. The ANRP awards for IETF-91 go to: *** Sharon Goldberg *** for discussing threats when BGP RPKI authorities are faulty, misconfigured, compromised, or compelled to misbehave: Danny Cooper, Ethan Heilman, Kyle Brogle, Leonid Reyzin and Sharon Goldberg. On the Risk of Misbehaving RPKI Authorities. Proc. ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-XII), College Park, MD, USA, November 2013. *** Tobias Flach *** for the design of novel loss recovery mechanisms for TCP that minimize timeout-driven recovery: Tobias Flach, Nandita Dukkipati, Andreas Terzis, Barath Raghavan, Neal Cardwell, Yuchung Cheng, Ankur Jain, Shuai Hao, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Ramesh Govindan. Reducing Web Latency: the Virtue of Gentle Aggression. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, Hong Kong, China, August 2013. *** Misbah Uddin *** for developing matching and ranking for network search queries to make operational data available in real-time to management applications: Misbah Uddin, Rolf Stadler and Alexander Clemm. Scalable Matching and Ranking for Network Search. Proc. International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Zürich, Switzerland, October 2013. Sharon, Tobias and Misbah have been invited to present his findings in the IRTF Open Meeting during IETF-91 in Honolulu, HI, USA. Join them there! 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 -- 2014 ANRP Selection Committee Mark Allman, ICIR Marcelo Bagnulo, UC3M Lou Berger, LabN Olivier Bonaventure, UCL Louvain Ross Callon, Juniper KC Claffy, CAIDA Lars Eggert, NetApp Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin 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 Joe Touch, USC/ISI Rolf Winter, Hochschule Augsburg Yang Richard Yang, Yale Lixia Zhang, UCLA