IETF 122: Hackathon Participation

India at IETF 122 – From Hackathon to Global Standards

Overview

AIORI 1’s journey culminated with its winning teams—Red Relay and SecureNet Innovators—presenting at the IETF 122 Hackathon, the world’s premier forum for Internet standards development. The AIORI-IMN team and AIORI 1 Hackathon winners worked on implementing RFC 8250 in AIORI-IMN platform and participated in IETF 122 hackathon as champions.

Project Focus

Evaluating DNS Server Performance using IPv6 PDM (RFC 8250)

The Team

Anand Raje

(Program Coordinator) CTO, India InternetFoundation, IndustryMember, IAYPC 2024 - IEEE India Council

Arnav Das

Research Associate, India Internet Foundation

Aindri Mukherjee

Research Associate, India Internet Foundation

Debayan Mukherjee

Research Associate, India Internet Foundation

Sampurna Pyne

Debarghya Bhattacharya

Nabhonil Bhattacharya

Aditya Ghosh

Dipankar Basu

Raja Karmakar

Achievements

  • Developed Linux kernel module and eBPF tools for PDM
  • Created a Python-based DNS measurement toolkit
  • Contributed to Scapy (open-source network testing library)
  • Used AIORI-IMN Testbed to run real traffic scenarios
  • Presented project in official IETF 122 Hackathon session

GitHub Links:

URLs:

AIORI Portal: https://portal.aiori.in

PDM Implementation: https://v2.aior.in/PDM

Significance

This marked one of the first formal technical contributions from an Indian academic-industry collaborative team to the IETF Hackathon ecosystem, underscoring India’s emerging role in global Internet engineering.

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