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Recipient of the Minister of Science and ICT Award for Leading International Internet Standardization

Professor Jaehoon Paul Jeong of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Computing and Informatics, received the Minister of Science and ICT Award at the Global ICT Standards Conference (GISC) 2025 (https://gisc.or.kr/) held at EL Tower in Seoul on November 3. Since its launch in 2017, GISC has been the largest international event in Korea focused on standards and patents, bringing together experts to discuss the future of next-generation ICT technologies and standards. GISC 2025, held under the theme “AI for All,” gathered ICT standardization professionals, industry representatives, academics, and research institutions from around the world to share the latest knowledge and insights. The conference focused on standardization issues in key and emerging technologies such as AI, 6G, quantum technologies, and digital transformation, with global companies, international standardization organizations, and policy agencies participating to discuss interoperability, reliability, and the integration of standards and intellectual property, presenting a vision for the future digital society.

Each year, GISC recognizes researchers who have made significant contributions to the development and standardization of international technologies by awarding the Minister of Science and ICT Award. Professor Jaehoon Paul Jeong was recognized at GISC 2025 for his contributions in developing cloud-based security service technologies and vehicle networking technologies for autonomous vehicles. These technologies were implemented in multiple international standards approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and further shared through open-source projects to demonstrate proof of concept (POC), earning him the Minister of Science and ICT Award for his contributions to ICT standardization in 2025.

Figure 1. Receiving the Minister of Science and ICT Award for ICT Standard

Figure 2. Certificate of the Minister of Science and ICT Award for ICT Standard

Professor Jaehoon Paul Jeong has been engaged in Internet technology standardization at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for 23 years, from 2002 to 2025, and continues to actively participate as an ICT international standardization expert at TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association of Korea).

As shown in Figure 3, Professor Paul co-authored RFC 8192 on problem statements and use cases for the I2NSF (Interface to Network Security Functions) Working Group (WG) for cloud-based security systems. He also served as editor for six I2NSF WG documents that have been approved as RFCs. These six documents are scheduled to be published as RFCs in the first half of 2026. The SKKU IoT Lab team led by Professor Paul (http://iotlab.skku.edu/) participated in IETF hackathons with the I2NSF Framework Project, winning four awards (IETF-97, IETF-99, IETF-100, IETF-103), contributing to global recognition of Korea's Internet technologies in the I2NSF field.

Professor Paul also edited the problem statements and use case documents for the IPWAVE (IP Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) WG for IPv6-based vehicular networking, which were published as RFC 9365. To implement proof of concept (POC) for I2NSF WG and IPWAVE WG standard documents, he leads open-source projects on GitHub. Over the past 23 years (2002–2025), he has served as lead author of two RFCs, RFC 4339 and RFC 5006 (later updated as RFC 6106 and RFC 8106). He actively participates in standardization at the IETF NMRG (Network Management Research Group) as editor for intent-based networking use case documents. Through these activities, Professor Paul has made significant contributions to the development of Internet technologies worldwide as an Internet expert.

Figure 3. Cloud Security System Based on the I2NSF Framework

Professor Paul’s SKKU team contributed to global recognition of Korea and Sungkyunkwan University as a leading institution in Internet technology development and standardization through their IETF standardization activities on the I2NSF cloud security system and IPWAVE vehicular networking.

The following shows the Internet standard documents contributed by Professor Paul in the I2NSF and IPWAVE Working Groups.

I2NSF Working Group: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/i2nsf/documents/
IPWAVE Working Group: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/ipwave/documents/

Professor Paul’s research team established the I2ICF (Interface to In-Network Computing Functions) group (https://mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lists/i2icf.ietf.org/) at the IETF to develop standard documents for controlling and managing mobile objects connected to 5G mobile networks (e.g., software-defined vehicles, robotic cars, robots, drones). At the IETF 124 Hackathon held in Montreal, Canada in November 2025, the team demonstrated I2ICF technology as a proof of concept (POC) and is working to establish a new working group within the IETF. Figure 4 shows Professor Paul’s hackathon team, and Figure 5 shows a poster presenting the implementation and test setup of the I2ICF hackathon project. This standardization work is part of Professor Paul’s standardization tasks under the IITP project “Development of SDV Software Framework Standards for Intelligent Converged Services.”

Figure 4. I2ICF Hackathon Team at IETF 124 Meeting

Figure 5. I2ICF Hackathon Project Poster at IETF 124

The following shows the I2ICF drafts currently being standardized by Professor Paul’s research team.

I2ICF Problem Statement: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jeong-opsawg-i2icf-problem-statement/
I2ICF Framework: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jeong-opsawg-i2icf-framework/

Professor Paul’s research team develops networking and security technologies for the Internet and actively participates in Internet standardization at the IETF as Korea’s leading standardization expert. Their research results are also published annually in top academic journals. In addition, Professor Paul serves as the publicity chair for NetSoft 2025 and program committee chair for ICMU 2025, contributing to the global recognition of Korea and Sungkyunkwan University. He currently serves as the director of the Graduate School of Convergence Security at Sungkyunkwan University, responsible for nurturing talents in convergence security.