Let's talk about some topics of interest at the IETF#
RIPE 93 digest Program Core pick 26–30 October 2026
Suresh Krishnan, Internet Architecture Board
- Why: This IAB/IESG BoF is the most direct hit on the agentic-identity agenda at the whole meeting: workload identity standards (WIMSE) being applied to AI agents, OAuth working-group work on AI-agent authorization, and two new AI-focused WGs.
- What: An interactive session on IETF topics relevant to operators: AI (AGENTPROTO for AI-agent application interoperability; DAWN for AI resource discovery over mDNS), identity/authentication/authorization/audit (WIMSE guidelines for AI-agent authN/authZ and gap analysis — workload identity methods designed to apply to AI agents; OAuth WG work on AI-agent authorization; a new "audit" BoF on auditing distributed, time-evolving systems), post-quantum cryptography (PQUIP operational guidance, RFC 9958, hybrid work across tls/jose/cose/lamps, Merkle-tree certificates in PLANTS), plus IPv6, DNS, routing and space topics.
- How: Presentation-light, feedback-heavy: the explicit goal is to collect operator positions and feed them back into the IETF process.
- Where applicable: Anyone whose roadmap depends on workload identity, OAuth/OIDC extension points, or PQC migration timelines for BGP/DNS security.