Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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.

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