In the past, this has been called the Network Virtualization Microconference, but this year’s instance is branching out to include IPv6 and Security.

Network-virtualization topics include networking for multi-tenant container clusters, reducing network-namespace load on the system, intelligent processing at the edge of the data center, programmable datapath (as in fun with eBPF, OVS, nft, and much else besides), hardware support, and protocol development.

IPv6 topics include performance (can it catch up to IPv4?), consolidation of common IPv4/IPv6 functionality, solving the IPv6 datacenter addressing problem, and providing network virtualization without encapsulation using logical IPv6 overlays.

Security topics include scalable networking security policies for containers, securing applications in multi-host data centers, encryption of overlays, and hardware support.

It appears that coordinated work in all three of these areas is required to make good progess. For more information, see the wiki page.