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

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CALL FOR PAPERS --- Deadline Extended to *** July 24th, 2026 ***

First International Workshop on a Resilient, Renewable, and Responsible=20
Internet (RE-NET)
https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2026/#!/renet

Co-located with
ACM CoNEXT 2026 - 22nd International Conference on emerging Networking=20
EXperiments and Technologies,
December 7th-10th, 2026, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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The First International Workshop on a Resilient, Renewable, and=20
Responsible Internet (RE-NET 2026), co-located with the 22nd=20
International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and=20
Technologies (CoNEXT 2026), brings together researchers and=20
practitioners working at the intersection of society and networking=20
technologies. The workshop=E2=80=99s goal is to promote an Internet that =
is=20
re-invented in the sense that novel networking developments are guided=20
by societal needs.

The workshop seeks high-quality contributions addressing theoretical=20
research, method and algorithm development, system design, experimental=20
evaluations, operational experiences, and socio-technical studies on the=20
interplay of Internet technologies and society.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Formalization of societal goals and their transformation to network=20
services
- Transparency, explainability, and accountability in network management=20
and services
- Contracts and governance mechanisms that relate societal goals to=20
technology provisioning
- Trust establishment and assurance in networking
- Privacy preservation of personal data in a global network infrastructur=
e
- 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.)=20
models and solutions
- Sovereignty, safety, and liability in networked critical infrastructure=
s
- Application use cases and studies exposing shortcomings of current=20
Internet technologies
- Studies on inclusion/exclusion and citizen trust in Internet-based=20
services
- Analyses of Internet vulnerabilities and the consequences of Internet=20
outages
- Studies on the impact of Internet-based services on societal structures

Important workshop dates:

Paper submission deadline (extended): July 24th, 2026 (AoE)
Paper acceptance notification: August 28th, 2026 (AoE)
Camera-ready deadline: September 25th, 2026 (AoE)

Submission guidelines (updated):

Workshop papers will be published in the same set of proceedings as the=20
conference's short papers, and will be available on the ACM Digital=20
Library. Submitted papers must be at most 6 pages long, including=20
figures and references, in two-column 10pt ACM conference proceedings=20
format. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, not=20
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=20
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, Universit=C3=A9 Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino
=C3=96znur =C3=96zkasap, Ko=C3=A7 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 M=C3=BCnster
S=C3=A1ndor Laki, E=C3=B6tv=C3=B6s Lor=C3=A1nd University
Enio Kaljic, University of Sarajevo

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