Quantum Networking: Drafty Internet Drafts

Speaking as an individual contributor, not as chair of the Quantum Internet Research Group:

We have two new very drafty Internet Drafts out:

Timing Regimes in Quantum Networks and their Physical Underpinnings
Get the HTML version, which renders the figures, names and equations right.This one is intended to bridge the physics and the network engineering; there should be no design decisions in this document, but it should tell us how to use the physics to decide. It should be useful across all possible quantum network designs. In particular, I originated the document to help us understand layering in quantum network architectures.

Comments submittable as email (either direct to both authors or on the QIRG mailing list), or as Issues or Pull Requests on GitHub.

A Quantum Network Architecture
This one is the start of the description of our own quantum network architecture. Still very far to go. 

Comments submittable as email (either direct to all three authors or on the QIRG mailing list), or as Issues or Pull Requests on GitHub.

Comments very welcome on both documents!

These two are the start of what we expect to eventually be a full technical description of our network, spanning as many as two dozen documents.

Voluntary-Participation Surveillance Society and, oh, Little Things Like Aircraft Carriers

 Hilarious, inevitable, tactically troubling, and evidence of our voluntary-participation surveillance society. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/20/stravaleaks-france-s-aircraft-carrier-located-in-real-time-by-le-monde-through-fitness-app_6751640_4.html

Strava is the app I use to record my bike rides; "everybody" is on it. It can obscure your start and end points if you don't want the exact location of your house identified, but if you're on a public app like this, you've already volunteered to share a great deal about yourself.

Warfighters are heavily warned against sharing opsec-sensitive info, and I've been told that modern briefings instruct them not to use Strava while on deployment. But it was inevitable that someone would forget. I'm sure the poor guy has already been disciplined and his shipmates won't let him live it down, for sure.

Dave Farber: Obituaries and Archival Materials

As you know by know, our beloved Professor Dave Farber passed away last month. The impact of his loss will resonate for a long time. Here is my list of articles about his passing, plus a few other things. Let me know if you see other articles that should be included. (Picture above: we cooked Dave turkey on Christmas Day, 2025.)

Perhaps my favorite quote from this set of sources is from Dave Crocker, in the Wall Street Journal:

His mind was, from what I could see, largely undisciplined, which is how he could make these connections so unexpectedly and usefully, but not always usefully. He would say things that put things in juxtaposition because his mind just wandered in various ways.

To me, that's high praise.

Notices from Keio University & Japanese Organizations

• Keio CCRC Obituary Notice
• A Tribute to Dave Farber by Jun Murai at CCRC
• From the WIDE Project (in Japanese and English)
• My eulogy for Dave at his funeral

Other Employers

• UC Irvine

Major Newspapers

• Japan Times
• New York Times
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Wall Street Journal
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Trade Organizations

• Communications of the ACM In Memoriam
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Internet Hall of Fame
• ISC

Historical Materials Archived at Keio

•  The DCS Archives of technical papers
• 50th Anniversary of DCS discussion
• Autobiographical materials and reminiscences in interviews (in four parts)

Other Historical Materials

• Computer History Museum
• Wikipedia