Hi, we are extremely pleased to report that for the 2017 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP), 39 eligible nominations were received. Each submission was reviewed by several members of the selection committee 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 are awarded an Applied Networking Research Prize in 2017. Two prize winners will present their work at the IRTF Open Meeting during IETF-98 in Chicago, IL, USA. The ANRPs for IETF-98 go to: *** Yossi Gilad *** for the “path-end validation” extension to the RPKI: Avichai Cohen, Yossi Gilad, Amir Herzberg, and Michael Schapira. Jumpstarting BGP Security with Path-End Validation. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, Florianopolis, Brazil, August 2016. *** Alistair King *** for a framework to enable efficient processing of large amounts of distributed and/or live BGP data: Chiara Orsini, Alistair King, Danilo Giordano, Vasileios Giotsas, and Alberto Dainotti. BGPStream: A Software Framework for Live and Historical BGP Data Analysis. Proc. ACM IMC, Santa Monica, CA, USA, November 2016. 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: https://irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/irtf-announce https://isoc.org/join More information about the ANRP is at https://irtf.org/anrp. Regards, Lars Eggert, IRTF Chair https://irtf.org/anrp Mat Ford, Internet Society https://isoc.org/research/ 2017 ANRP Selection Committee Mark Allman, ICIR Lou Berger, LabN KC Claffy, CAIDA Lars Eggert, NetApp Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin Nick Feamster, Princeton Mat Ford, ISOC Lisandro Granville, UFRGS Volker Hilt, Bell Labs Suresh Krishnan, Ericsson Allison Mankin, Salesforce Al Morton, AT&T Laboratories Jörg Ott, TU München Colin Perkins, University of Glasgow Aiko Pras, University of Twente Jürgen Schönwälder, Jacobs University Bremen Joe Touch, USC/ISI Rolf Winter, Hochschule Augsburg Lixia Zhang, UCLA