CFP - CoNEXT 2026 Workshop on a Resilient, Renewable, and Responsible Internet (RE-NET)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

First International Workshop on a Resilient, Renewable, and Responsible 
Internet (RE-NET)
https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2026/#!/renet

*** UPDATE on paper submission instructions

Co-located with
ACM CoNEXT 2026 - 22nd International Conference on emerging Networking 
EXperiments and Technologies,
December 7th-10th, 2026, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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The First International Workshop on a Resilient, Renewable, and 
Responsible Internet (RE-NET 2026), co-located with the 22nd 
International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and 
Technologies (CoNEXT 2026), brings together researchers and 
practitioners working at the intersection of society and networking 
technologies. The workshop’s goal is to promote an Internet that is 
re-invented in the sense that novel networking developments are guided 
by societal needs.

The workshop seeks high-quality contributions addressing theoretical 
research, method and algorithm development, system design, experimental 
evaluations, operational experiences, and socio-technical studies on the 
interplay of Internet technologies and society.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Formalization of societal goals and their transformation to network 
services
- Transparency, explainability, and accountability in network management 
and services
- Contracts and governance mechanisms that relate societal goals to 
technology provisioning
- Trust establishment and assurance in networking
- Privacy preservation of personal data in a global network infrastructure
- Sustainable networking, including the use of renewable energy sources
- Trade-offs between energy-efficient networking and (agentic) AI
- Responsible Internet of Agents
- AI-facilitated responsible networking
- Explainable AI in network management
- Reliability, safety, and resilience of networks and services
- SDN and programmable networking for responsibility goals
- Responsible XaaS (everything as a service, e.g., CaaS, FaaS, etc.) 
models and solutions
- Sovereignty, safety, and liability in networked critical infrastructures
- Application use cases and studies exposing shortcomings of current 
Internet technologies
- Studies on inclusion/exclusion and citizen trust in Internet-based 
services
- Analyses of Internet vulnerabilities and the consequences of Internet 
outages
- Studies on the impact of Internet-based services on societal structures

Important workshop dates:

Paper submission deadline: July 14th, 2026
Paper acceptance notification: August 14th, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: September 14th, 2026

Submission guidelines (update):

Workshop papers will be published in the same set of proceedings as the 
conference's short papers, and will be available on the ACM Digital 
Library. Submitted papers must be at most 6 pages long, including 
figures and references, in two-column 10pt ACM conference proceedings 
format. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, not 
previously published work and work that is not currently under review.

Papers should be submitted to https://re-net2026.hotcrp.com/.

Peer-review process:

A single-blind peer-review process will be adopted. Each submitted paper 
will receive at least three reviews from the Technical Program Committee.

Workshop and TPC chairs:

Paola Grosso, University of Amsterdam
Karin Anna Hummel, Johannes Kepler University Linz

TPC:

Tihana Galinac Grbac, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
Jean-Marc PIERSON, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino
Öznur Özkasap, Koç University
Sergey Gorinsky, IMDEA Networks Institute
Nikolaos Fotiou, Internet Identity Security and Privacy Solutions Greece
George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business
Henning Schulzrinne, Trustees of Columbia University
Pavol Helebrandt, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Gabriel Scalosub, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Helen Eenmaa, University of Tartu
Ralph Holz, University of Münster
Sándor Laki, Eötvös Loránd University
Enio Kaljic, University of Sarajevo

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