Climate

We had the pleasure to be part of the Dagstuhl seminar Towards Climate-Friendly Internet Research, which took place on July 7–9, 2021. This was the first online Dagstuhl seminar we attended. While the online format was caused by the Corona pandemic, it actually made a lot of sense to hold the seminar in an online format given that the event was largely focused on the question how we can reduce the carbon footprint of the academic community, the network operator communities, and the standardization communities. A simple back of the envelope calculation of the carbon footprint of big network standardization meetings (the IETF runs three meetings a year with 1000+ people attending) leads to pretty gigantic numbers.