Talks, Articles & Press

The public record of vCon — talks, podcasts, articles, and IETF sessions where vCon has been discussed in public venues.

This section is the curated public record. Anything we link here is on someone else's site, under their byline, in their own words. It is the place to go when you want to see what is actually being said about vCon in public, by whom, and where.

If you arrived here from the home page looking for evidence that vCon is more than a single vendor's idea, the layers below are where that evidence lives.

Where to look, by what you want to verify

The IETF process is itself the strongest evidence that vCon is being built in the open. Specific public statements from carriers, platforms, regulators, and civil society organizations show up across the subsections.

• The standards process. The IETF VCON working group datatracker page is the primary source. Charter, drafts, mailing list archives, and meeting minutes are all public and permanent. See also IETF Sessions below.

• Industry adoption and analyst framing. Conference Keynotes and Articles & Press collect talks and longform writing from TADSummit, TADHack, Telecom Reseller, Medium, and analyst blogs.

• Audio commentary. Podcasts, anchored by Jeff Pulver's ongoing Substack series, is the rolling commentary track on vCon's adoption.

• Related standards work. SCITT is the IETF effort vCon pairs with for lifecycle integrity. Talks linking the two appear in Conference Keynotes and Podcasts; the deep dive lives at SCITT and vCon.

How to use this section

• Get oriented quickly. Pick one talk from Conference Keynotes and one article from Articles & Press. Forty minutes will give you a working mental model.

• Cite vCon. When you need a durable link for a deck, blog post, or RFP, prefer pinned items at the top of each subsection.

• Track the working group. IETF Sessions is the closest thing to a primary source for where the spec is going next.

• Find a quote. Each subsection is reverse chronological. The most recent public statements are at the top.

Subsections

• IETF Sessions — every IETF VCON working group session with recording and minutes

• Conference Keynotes — TADSummit, TADHack, Generative AI Expo, and other event talks

• Podcasts — audio interviews, including Jeff Pulver's ongoing Substack series

• Articles & Press — longform writing, press coverage, and analyst commentary

A note on attribution

We link to public material by the speakers and authors who produced it. We do not characterize positions of organizations beyond what those organizations have said themselves in public, on the record. If you want to know what a given carrier, platform, regulator, or civil society organization thinks about vCon, follow the links to their own words.

Submitting links

Recorded a talk, written an article, or run a podcast episode about vCon? The lightest path is a pull request against talks-articles-press/ in vcon-dev/vcon-docs. Keep entries to one line plus a short takeaway, reverse chronological within each subsection.