Martine Sophie Lenders has been regularly participating in the IETF for over a decade, starting with the IETF 93 meeting in Prague in 2015. As at every IETF meeting, alongside the established Working Groups there will be a handful of Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions—and these are often the most interesting place to watch where Internet standards work is heading next. Joe Clarke has been appointed as the new IETF NOC Lead and in this post Joe introduces himself and sets out his priorities for the IETF Network.