[Starlink] Fwd: Pre-Proposed SPACE RG side meeting

[Nishanth Sastry]

A gentle reminder of the previously advertised side meeting happening tomorrow (Mar 18, 1515-1615 Bangkok Local Time) about a potential SPACE RG and some updates, including proposed agenda below. Hope to see some of you there.

Best Wishes
nishanth

Forwarded message:

> From: Joerg Ott <ott at in.tum.de>
> To: deepspace at ietf.org
> Cc: Juan A. Fraire <juanfraire at gmail.com>, Nishanth Sastry <n.sastry at surrey.ac.uk>
> Subject: Pre-Proposed SPACE RG side meeting
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:00:18 +0700
>
> Hi,
>
> on 18 March, 15:15-16:15 ICT (8:15-9:15 UTC) at IETF 122 in meeting room 2, we will hold a side of the not yet quite Proposed SPACE RG.  For a draft charter see https://github.com/ekline/spacerg/blob/main/charter.md
>
> [We apologize for the conflict with another satellite side meeting but this didn't exist when we asked for it.  Probably parallelism struck.]
>
> SPACE RG is not competing with existing WGs or other RGs.  It is not intended to do any protocol specifications but rather learn about deployments, measurements, and tools, and share practices and data.
>
> In particular:
>
> SPACE RG is NOT DTN WG (nor a delayed successor of DTNRG) because we will look at quite well-connected megaconstellations such as Starlink and other satellite networks.
>
> SPACE RG is NOT TIPTOP WG either because we don't try to tweak protocols to work better with larger latencies or in specific environments.
>
> We are considering of being an IRTF research group to begin with.  We may compile useful insights into networking properties and look at routing protocols, operational experiences, etc. from a research perspective.
>
> Agenda:
>
> 1. Introduction (5min)
> 2. Short talks for background (clarifying questions only, 25min)
>    Juan Fraire: Models and Methods for Near-Earth and Deep Space Networking
>    Ulrich Speidel: How fast can Starlink really be? A quick summary
>    Nishant Sastry: LEOscope: A global measurement testbed for LEO Satellite Networks
> 3. Round table (20min)
>    Where shoudl a Proposed RG go and what should it "deliver"?
> 4. Charter discussion and next steps (10min)
>
> Please join us on site or online at:
> IETF Webex: https://ietf.webex.com/meet/ietfsidemeeting2
>
> Looking forward to seeing you around!
>
> Best,
> Juan, Nishant, and Jörg