IETF Draft: Quantum-Native Architectural Tenets and Philosophy for the Quantum Internet  

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  This document extends RFC 9340 by outlining a set of quantum-native architectural tenets for the design and evolution of the Quantum Internet.  These principles should not be interpreted as dogmas, but as pragmatic guidelines and criteria for harnessing the unique properties of quantum entanglement within networked systems.  Such design perspectives, while departing from the classical Internet, remain aligned with a foundational insight: the principle of constant change, articulated in RFC 1958.

   The document specifies quantum-native extensions to the Quantum  Internet framework, defining an entanglement packet switching paradigm and an explicit separation between the Quantum Data Plane and Quantum Control Plane.  It introduces Quantum Internet Addressing to extend quantum semantics into control and coordination, and generalizes the classical forwarding concept to quantum packets.