IETF Blog

During a period from May 6 to May 9, a number of messages intended for IETF, IRTF, IAB, IESG, and RFC-Editor email lists were accepted by email services, but not forwarded to the list members or ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-mailing-list-delivery-issues/

We will be experimenting with a new survey to help understand why people participate in one IETF meeting but not the meeting following.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/experimental-survey-of-meeting-non-returners/

The final report on the IETF Community Survey 2023 is now available.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-community-survey-2023/

Want to catch up on IETF activity in 2023? The IETF Snapshot provides a short summary of IETF activity for the previous year.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2023/

In a major milestone in the movement to consider human rights impacts of technology, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights details the obstacles and opportunities posed by technic...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/un-report-calls-for-new-era-for-digital-governance/

IETF 119 Brisbane was held 16-22 March 2024

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-119-post-meeting-survey/

Location-tracking accessories provide numerous benefits to users, such as being able to find where they left their keys. But they can also have security and privacy implications if used for malic...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/dult-wg/

Members of the incoming Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the IETF Trust, the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) Board of Directors, and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)—which pr...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-announcement-2024/

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) organizes workshops about topics of interest to the community that bring diverse experts together, raise awareness, and possibly identify the next steps that...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-bias-workshop/

These IETF 119 meeting sessions will include discussions and proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time participants.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf119-new-topics/

Google, auDA, and Internet Association Australia (IAA) provide key support for Brisbane meeting to be held 16-22 March 2024

http://www.ietf.org/blog/google-and-consortium-of-local-organizations-to-host-first-australian-ietf-meeting-in-over-20-years/

Today the JSONPath RFC (RFC 9535) proposed standard was published, precisely 17 years after Stefan Gössner wrote his influential blog post JSONPath – XPath for JSON that resulted in some 50 im...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/jsonpath-rfc/

The IAB’s new Environmental Impacts of Internet Technology (E-Impact) program will hold its first virtual interim meeting over two slots on February 15th and 16th 2024. These interim meetings a...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/eimpact-program-workshop/

In 2022, the IETF formed a working group for Media Over QUIC (MoQ)—a media delivery solution that has the potential to transform how we send and receive media during live streaming, real-time c...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/moq-overview/

The IETF Administration LLC has finalised its budget for 2024.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2024-budget/

Begun in the last quarter of 2023, work is underway to define and deploy a new, cloud-based infrastructure approach for services that support the work of the IETF, and to move those services onto...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/it-infrastructure-transition-project-update/

Today we are pleased to announce an extended agreement with the Internet Society to continue providing major financial support to the IETF for five more years, through March 2029.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/isoc-extends-financial-support-to-2029/

The IETF Administration LLC Strategic Plan sets out the strategy that it aims to follow over the next 3-5 years.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2024-strategic-plan/

The 2023 IETF Community Survey is live and we want to hear from you! Please respond by 22 January 2024.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/launch-of-the-ietf-community-survey-2023/

The IETF Administration LLC recently sought feedback from the community on the possibility of holding an IETF Meeting in the cities of Beijing, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, and Shenzhen. The feedback ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/final-response-to-meeting-venue-consultations/

The IETF Administration LLC has prepared its draft budget for 2024 and now seeks community feedback.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2024-draft-budget/

IETF 118 Prague was held 4-10 November 2023

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-118-post-meeting-survey/

With IETF 118 Prague complete as the last meeting of 2023, we wanted to provide an update on the IETF’s carbon footprint over the past year and efforts going forward to increase the sustainabil...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/net-zero-update-2023/

The IETF 118 meeting was held in Prague in early November. In general, the meeting was productive and full of lively discussions fueled by 1067 onsite participants, and 1806 participants altogeth...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf118-highlights/

I am pleased to announce that Cisco will be the Host for IETF 121 Dublin, 2-8 November 2024.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf121-host/

These IETF 118 meeting sessions included discussions and proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time participants.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf118-new-topics/

The IETF Administration LLC and Secretariat regularly receive questions and requests from the IETF community about the countries that are listed in IETF systems, in particular the list in the mee...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/countries-listed-in-ietf-systems/

A report about the experience of women participating in the IETF aims for a better understanding of the factors behind the relatively low level of participation.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/report-experience-of-women-participating-in-the-ietf/

If you have ever been curious about what the role of an IETF working group chair entails, consider joining online training about promoting contribution, resolving conflict, and building consensus...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/chairs-training-2023/

The IETF Annual Report 2022 provides a summary of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), and RFC Editor community activiti...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/annual-report-2022/

IETF 117 is a few weeks behind us and this time I took the opportunity to report on a few highlights and some of my impressions.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf117-highlights/

The IETF Administration LLC recently sought feedback from the community on the possibility of holding an IETF Meeting in the cities of Beijing, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur and Shenzhen. The feedback r...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/proposed-response-to-meeting-venue-consultations-and-the-complex-issues-raised/

Now's the time to submit Birds of a Feather session (BOFs) ideas for the IETF 118 meeting 4-10 November 2023, with proposals due by 8 September.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf118-bof-proposals/

More than 250 participants gathered online and in person for ANRW 2023, the academic workshop that provides a forum for researchers, vendors, network operators, and the Internet standards communi...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrw-2023-review/

IETF 117 San Francisco was held 22-28 July 2023

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-117-post-meeting-survey/

Recordings are now available for sessions held during the IETF 116 meeting and the IETF Hackathon, where more than 1500 participants gathered in San and online 22-28 July 2023.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf117-catchup/

We have begun putting into action the carbon footprint calculator developed last year and have been doing some initial research into additional steps we might take to reduce and possibly offset t...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/net-zero-update-july-2023/

The core specification for Messaging Layer Security (MLS), which is already making it easy for apps to provide the highest level of end-to-end security for their users, has been published as an R...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/mls-protocol-published/

Messaging Layer Security (MLS) has been developed with broad participation and input to make it easy for apps to provide the highest level of end-to-end security for their users

http://www.ietf.org/blog/support-for-mls-2023/

IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors received from external auditors the report of a clean result for its 2022 annual financial statement.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-2022-annual-financial-audit/

These IETF 117 meeting sessions are likely to include discussions and proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time partic...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf117-new-topics/

The new BPF Working Group is beginning work to document the state of the ecosystem and extensions for this technology that has origins in the Linux kernel and is increasingly being used beyond Li...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/bpf/

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and Internet Architecture Board (IAB) held their annual retreat in Seattle on 8-12 May, with two days for each group and a joint day in the middle.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-and-iesg-retreat-2023/

The IETF’s “running code” mantra is a distinguishing characteristic of how the IETF works, which is why Ericsson has made a three year commitment to supporting events like the IETF Hackatho...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/supporting-running-code/

While the IETF 116 meeting in Yokohama is already a few weeks back, I would still like to take the opportunity to report on a few highlights and some of my personal impressions.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-highlights/

Bufferbloat: It's a term that may not be well-known outside of technical circles, but it's a problem that affects everyone who uses the Internet. Bufferbloat refers to the excessive buffering of ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/banishing-bufferbloat/

IETF 116 Yokohama was held 25-31 March 2023

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-116-post-meeting-survey/

Recordings are now available for sessions held during the IETF 116 meeting and the IETF Hackathon, where more than 1700 participants gathered in Yokohama and online 25-31 March 2023.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-catchup/

With many IETF participants active across a number of active working groups and limited time slots in an IETF meeting week, we aim to arrange sessions in the agenda to minimize conflicts that pre...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/reducing-ietf-meeting-scheduling-conflicts/

The IETF has approved publication of Messaging Layer Security (MLS), a new standard for end-to-end security that will make it easy for apps to provide the highest level of security to their users...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/mls-secure-and-usable-end-to-end-encryption/

Built with input from the IETF community, we now have an initial approach and tools for calculating the IETF’s carbon footprint and a strategy for carbon offsetting. For 2023, we will implement...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/towards-a-net-zero-ietf-next-steps/

The IETF Administration LLC has finalised its 2023 budget following a community consultation.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2023-budget/

A statement of principles regarding remote participation in IETF Meetings

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-statement-on-remote-meeting-participation/

Want to catch up on IETF activity in 2022? The IETF Snapshot provides a short summary of IETF activity for the previous year.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2022/

These IETF 116 meeting sessions are likely to include discussions and proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time partic...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-new-topics/

As research organizations and tech companies embrace quantum computing, many cybersecurity experts have worried that the upcoming super-powerful machines will be able to crack current encryption ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/pquip/

Members of the incoming Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the IETF Trust, the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) Board of Directors, and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)—which pr...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-announcement-2023/

In accordance with our policy of transparency, this blog post aims to keep the community informed about recent correspondence we have received and replied to.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/informing-the-community-on-third-party-correspondence-regarding-the-w3c/

Six network researchers have received Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP), an award focused on recent results in applied networking research and on interesting n...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrp-2023/

Sergio Aguilar Romero and Martine Sophie Lenders, both Ph.D. students in technology fields, attended and participated in the IETF 115 meeting in London with assistance through travel grants from ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/irtf-travel-grants/

The IAB ran an online workshop in December 2022 to begin to explore and understand the environmental impacts of the Internet. The discussion was active, and it will take time to summarise and pro...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-e-impact-workshop/

Birds of a Feather sessions (BOFs) are initial discussions about a particular topic of interest to the IETF community.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-bof-proposals/

The 2022 IETF Community Survey is live! Respond by 23 January 2023.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/launch-of-ietf-community-survey-2022/

At IETF, the Internet standards built today enable the Internet of tomorrow. The work of the IETF benefits from everyone who contributes time and talent. Right now, you can also support the futur...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-endowment-gift-today/

The IETF 115 Hackathon was held 5-6 November in London. 350 people registered to participate onsite and more than 100 more registered to participate remotely to work on 39 projects across essenti...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-hackathon/

Last month, I had the opportunity to attend my first IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) meeting, IETF 115, which was held in London. It was a great experience and I was able to learn a lot fr...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-new-connections/

This week the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) holds the E-Impact workshop on the environmental impact of Internet applications and systems. This impact is of course complex, since the Internet ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-e-impacts-workshop/

Registration is now open for IETF 116 Yokohama

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-116-yokohama-registration-now-open/

IETF 115 London was held 5-11 November 2022

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-115-post-meeting-survey/

Recordings are now available for sessions held during the IETF 115 meeting and the IETF Hackathon, where more than 1500 participants gathered in London and online 5-11 November 2022.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-catchup/

The upcoming IETF 115 meeting in London on 5-11 November 2022 is a unique opportunity for networking researchers to learn how RFCs are written, to engage with the Internet standards community to ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-researcher-opportunties/

These IETF 115 meeting sessions are likely to include discussions and proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time partic...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-new-topics/

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a foundational Internet standard that has provided clock synchronization between computer systems since the early 1980s. It was first standardized as RFC 958 in...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ntp-update/

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has published the official report from the workshop on Analyzing IETF Data (AID) 2021.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-aid-workshop-report/

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) open session at the IETF 115 meeting will feature presentations on research into domain hijacking, the IETF's organizational culture, and DDoS attack detec...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-irtfopen/

Thanks to the generous support of IETF Diversity and Inclusion sponsors, onsite childcare at an IETF meeting was provided for the first time ever during IETF 114. The successful experience and co...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf114-childcare/

The IETF Annual Report 2021 provides a summary of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), and RFC Editor community activiti...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/annual-report-2021/

IETF 114 was held 23-29 July in Philadelphia. As was typical prior to the pandemic, a Hackathon over the weekend served as a great start to the IETF meeting.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf114-hackathon/

In early August 2022, the IESG and IETF Administration LLC asked the community for feedback on a proposed COVID management policy for IETF 115.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/follow-up-to-consultation-on-covid-management-for-ietf-115/

An in-depth paper on COVID mitigation at IETF 114 Philadelphia.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-114-philadelphia-covid-mitigation-analysis/

Alexis Rossi has been appointed as the RFC Series Consulting Editor (RSCE). As RSCE, she will provide expert advice on the processes and policies for the RFC Series, which is made up of documents...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/rsce-appointment/

The results from our IETF 114 post-meeting survey are now available.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-114-post-meeting-survey/

Walking up to the check-in desk at IETF 114 was a very strange experience for me. You see, only about a month prior, I had walked across the stage to graduate from Thomas Jefferson High School fo...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/presenting-at-my-first-ietf-meeting/

This list of sessions at the IETF 114 meeting are likely to include discussions and new proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF o...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf114-new-topics/

As the world slowly recovers from COVID-19, in-person meetings at IETF and other organizations are coming back.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/value-of-in-person-collaboration/

The new RFC Editor Model is intended to provide greater transparency, improved responsiveness to the needs of the community, and increased clarity regarding the roles and responsibilities of the ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-rfc-editor-model/

The IETF has been busy working on updates to the specifications that make up HTTP, one of the most widely used protocols on the Internet, and documenting them in several RFCs published this month...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/http-updates/

The final stage of transitioning services from tools.ietf.org will take place over the next few weeks. New services are in place, and some older services will disappear. Several measures are plan...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/finalizing-ietf-tools-transition/

The Internet Architecture Board, Internet Engineering Steering Group, and IETF Administration LLC Board convened for the first joint retreat in San Francisco from May 17 to 20, 2022, generously h...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-llc-board-retreat-update/

Introducing a new project to measure and potentially offset IETF carbon emissions.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/towards-a-net-zero-ietf/

The results from our IETF 113 post-meeting survey are now available.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-113-post-meeting-survey/

The IETF 113 Hackathon held 19-20 March 2022 in Vienna and online marked the return to in-person collaboration on running code related to Internet standards.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-hackathon/

Two updates in the coming weeks will significantly revise the look of the IETF Datatracker and, after a short outage on 25 April 2022, upgrade the hardware for most IETF services.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-tools-updates/

Eliot Lear, a long-time Internet Engineering Task Force participant and engineer for Cisco Systems, was recently appointed independent submissions editor by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ise-eliot-lear/

This list of sessions at the IETF 113 meeting are likely to include discussions and new proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF o...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-new-participants/

The new central resource site for authors of Internet-Drafts (I-Ds), authors.ietf.org, is now in production.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/authorsietforg-new-resource-site-for-authors-of-internet-drafts/

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) open session at the IETF 113 meeting will feature presentations on research into events that could cause large-scale Internet outages and potential biases ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-irtfopen/

The IETF Systers Program offers women participants the opportunity to network with each other and “gain support by networking, sharing advice and experiences, and collaborating on various proje...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-systers-iwd/

In anticipation of the IETF’s first hybrid meeting on 19-25 March, a small group from the IETF Secretariat and NOC team traveled to Vienna last week to meet with the meeting venue staff and wor...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-venue-visit-report/

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is requesting comment on an update to the model for organizing the RFC Editor function.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/rfc-editor-model-update-comment/

For the IETF 112 meeting, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) conducted an experiment by holding the plenary on the Wednesday before other IETF sessions occurred, in order to reduce se...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-plenary-experiment-evaluation/

The IETF Administration LLC has finalised its 2022 budget following a community consultation.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2022-budget/

I am pleased to announce that registration is now open for IETF 113 and the preceding IETF Hackathon.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-registration-open/

Members of the incoming Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the IETF Trust, the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) Board of Directors, and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)—which pr...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-announcement-2022/

This workshop held online from 29 November to 2 December 2021 aimed to create more insight in what IETF data is available, what methods exist to analyze it, and what that data could explain to IE...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-analyzing-ietf-data-workshop/

The end-of-year is, for many, a season of charitable giving. As you weigh your giving options this season, the IETF Endowment is an option worthy of consideration.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/support-ietf-work-2021/

The results from our IETF 112 post-meeting survey are now available.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-112-post-meeting-survey/

The intent of this experiment is to give Area Directors (ADs) direct feedback allowing them to develop their method of working and behaviors.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-360degree-feedback-experiment/

The IETF 112 Hackathon held 1 - 5 November 2021 was the 5th online-only IETF Hackathon. Our planning and procedures have improved with each iteration, as have the supporting tools and infrastruct...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-hackathon/

An Internet Architecture Board (IAB) workshop in September 2021 focused on understanding and improving the end-user experience on the Internet.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-measuring-network-quality-for-end-users-workshop/

The Internet registry for Latin America and the Caribbean announces contribution to the IETF Endowment.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietfendowment-lacnic-commitment/

This list of sessions at the IETF 112 meeting are likely to include discussions and new proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-new-participants/

The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) has now completed the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA 2.0) retrospective. The report was developed with community input and review and is now ava...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-retrospective-conclusion/

The IETF Administration LLC has prepared its draft budget for 2022 and now seeks community feedback.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-2022-draft-budget/

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) open session at the IETF 112 online meeting will feature presentations on research into routing protocols, the effects of third-party service dependencies,...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-anrp-presentations/

Two members of the IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors bring deep expertise and experience from outside the realm of developing technical standards, providing perspectives about the factor...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-board-fresh-perspectives/

The IETF 111 Hackathon was held July 19-23, 2021. This was the 19th IETF Hackathon, and the 4th held as an online only event.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf111-hackathon/

The results from our IETF 111 post-meeting survey are now available.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-111-post-meeting-survey/

In May of this year the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) on behalf of the IESG and in collaboration with the IAB distributed the first annual IETF community survey to all 56,000 addresses subsc...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-community-survey-2021/

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) held its first fully-online workshop during the first week of November 2020, just before the IETF 109 meeting, to discuss the network impacts of the COVID-19...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/first-fully-online-iab-workshop/

Presentations on research into network specification and verification and on low-latency video streaming will be featured during the Internet Research Task Force Open session of the IETF 111 Onli...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf111-anrp-presentations/

The 2021 Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) provides a forum for researchers, vendors, network operators, and the Internet standards community to present and discuss emerging results in ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrw2021/

The IETF 111 meeting (26-30 July 2021) will feature 5 Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions, which are often early steps toward new work in the IETF, covering a range of topics.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf111-bofs/

The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) is soliciting community feedback on the first draft of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA 2.0) retrospective. Our goal is to complete this proce...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-retrospective-consultation-starts/

The IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors has received a clean result for its 2020 stand-alone annual financial statement.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-2020-financial-review/

The feedback provided in post-meeting surveys frequently references the public side meetings that are held during or alongside IETF meetings. Some feedback is about how those meetings are run, wh...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/public-side-meetings/

Lucas Pardue serves as co-chair of the IETF QUIC Working Group, which focuses on a standards-track specification for a UDP-based, stream-multiplexing, encrypted transport protocol. The IETF blog ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/quicwg-more-security-internet-traffic/

Lee-Berkeley Shaw joins the IETF Administration LLC today as Director of Development. She will focus on designing and delivering the strategy to achieve the IETF’s goals for financial sustainab...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/qa-with-our-new-director-of-development/

The IETF’s Transport and Services (TSV) area is developing several potentially transformative technologies while it continues to maintain many of the foundational protocols of the Internet.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-era-transport/

Already broadly deployed and used, QUIC provides lower delay, improved security, and more robust delivery of data.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/innovative-new-technology-for-sending-data/

QUIC, a new Internet transport technology that improves web application performance, security and privacy, was reviewed, redesigned and improved in the IETF, incorporating a broad range of input ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/quic-industry/

The IETF is launching its first annual IETF community survey.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/first-annual-ietf-community-survey/

The deadline for submitting papers for consideration for the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 2021 (ANRW’21) has been extended to 5 May 2021.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrw21-deadline-extended/

After three years of operation, the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) is preparing to conduct a complete assessment of the structure, processes, and operation of the IETF Administrative Support ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-three-year-review-process/

The IETF Annual Report 2020 provides a summary of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), and RFC Editor community activiti...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/annual-report-2020/

I use the Internet almost every day. If you are reading this, you probably do too. The Internet provides access to information and to each other in ways that are ingrained in our daily routines a...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-hackathon/

The result from our IETF 110 post-meeting survey are now available.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-110-post-meeting-survey/

IETF contributors recently asked the IETF LLC about the implications of complying with the US Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Asset Controls (OFAC).

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-statement-ofac-compliance-questions/

We have just pushed the December 2020 Financial Statement for the IETF Administration LLC. These contain some significant end of year audit adjustments that require further explanation.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-december-2020-financial-statements/

The Internet Engineering Task Force recognizes that security vulnerabilities will be discovered in IETF protocols and welcomes their critical evaluation by researchers. After consulting with the ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/reporting-protocol-vulnerabilities/

The IETF Blog recently chatted with incoming chair Lars Eggert about his views of where the IETF is now and what the path ahead looks like. This is an edited version of that conversation.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ietf-chair-lars-eggert/

Newly selected members of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) were officially seated in their new roles this week during the 110th Internet En...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-internet-architecture-board-and-internet-engineering-steering-group-meet-for-first-time/

The IETF Administration LLC has finalised its 2021 budget following a community consultation.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2021-budget/

A pair of presentations featured during the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open session of the IETF 110 Online meeting (8-12 March 2021) will highlight the application of machine learning to...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-anrp-presentations/

After review, research, and consultation with existing meeting hosts and sponsors, the IETF Administration LLC is implementing a restructured sponsorship program in support of the Internet Engine...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/revised-ietf-sponsorship-program/

With the IETF 110 meeting beginning next week, this post provides an update on the steps that have been taken since IETF 109 to improve the technical services that support participation in IETF o...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-technical-update/

This document is written to help authors and chairs (especially newer authors and chairs) understand what to do with IESG ballot positions. The most important bit of advice is “Don’t Panic.�...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/handling-iesg-ballot-positions/

The IETF Administration LLC ran a survey over December 2020 - January 2021 to assess community satisfaction with the LLC’s performance in 2020 and community views on our proposed activities for...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-2020-end-year-survey/

In October-November 2020 the IETF Administration LLC ran a survey of I-D authors on the formats and tools that they use. The results of this survey are now available.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/results-and-analysis-of-the-survey-of-i-d-authors-on-formats-and-tools/

A proposal aimed at addressing authentication challenges faced by Internet of Things (IoT) applications was approved for scheduling at IETF 110.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-bofs/

The publication of the standards that provide a foundation for Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) marks a milestone in the development of conferencing services used by billions of people aroun...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-milestone/

WebRTC technologies enjoy broad support by IETF participants, W3C Members, and across industry.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-support/

WebRTC enables rich, interactive, live voice and video communications anywhere on the Web, boosting global interconnection

http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-standardized/

This technical retrospective examines the technical services provided during IETF 109 to help understand the impact of service improvements made between IETF 108 and IETF 109 and what went well a...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-109-technical-retrospective/

Today we are releasing a survey for feedback on the performance of the IETF LLC in 2020.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-2020-year-review-survey/

The IETF Administration LLC has prepared its draft budget for 2021 and now seeks community feedback.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-2021-draft-budget/

WebRTC may arguably be the most important set of technologies used during the COVID-19 pandemic. All web-based videoconferencing services make use of WebRTC, a large set of technologies that allo...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-pandemic/

The result from our IETF 109 post-meeting survey are now available.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-109-post-meeting-survey/

For the global IETF community, the past year has been about adapting the way we do things to fit a reality that has not allowed us to gather in person. This means finding ways to remain focused o...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-hackathon/

More than 1000 participants gathered for a lively and productive online meeting at IETF 109.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-highlights/

Today we are pleased to announce an agreement with the Internet Society that extends their significant existing financial commitment to the IETF for an additional term of six years and establishe...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/isoc-financial-commitment/

The 109th IETF meeting will be held online November 16-20 from 5:00 to 11:00 UTC each day. IETF 109 will cap a full year of online IETF meetings.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-preview/

We have three general categories of issues: stabilizing and documenting the v3 grammar, managing the costs and speed of the v3 editing process, and managing the output formats.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/rfc-v3-xml-issues/

Registration is now open and the final agenda has been published for the IETF 109 Online meeting hosted by Cisco.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/register-now-ietf-109-online-meeting/

Two proposals for early-stage discussion were made for IETF 109.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-bofs/

Think back to the start of what some refer to as “the COVID-19 era.” It was early 2020 and prep for IETF 107 was in full swing. The wiki for the IETF 107 Hackathon already boasted an exciting...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-goes-online/

We recently ran a survey to understand why people who participated in an IETF meeting in 2018/2019 did not participate in IETF 108 to see if there are any issues that we need to fix. The results ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-108-non-participation-survey/

We often talk about how the Internet evolves. In large part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the year 2020 represents a situation where in a relatively short time, new user demands caused fairly sig...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-workshop-covid-19-network-impacts/

While interoperability testing has been one of the hallmarks of open standards and Internet protocol development for more than three decades, the process itself has been limited by manual and inc...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/quic-automated-interop-testing/

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open Meeting at the IETF 101 in London had a rather curious point on the agenda: “Vision for a QIRG: Quantum Internet Research Group”. With the hype ar...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/quantum-internet/

The IETF Administration LLC has reforecast its 2020 budget to address the significant changes in the underlying assumptions since the original budget was created.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2020-budget-reforecast/

Seven of the IRTF research groups and the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) met co-located the IETF 108 meeting, and three Applied Networking Research Prizes were awarded.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-irtf/

IETF 108 was the first-ever online IETF meeting with a full agenda.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-108-highlights/

The full results of our post-meeting survey for IETF 108 are now available along with an extended commentary below.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-108-meeting-survey/

The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) has discussed the issue of competition law several times since we formed and is aware it was the topic of a BoF a few years ago. As a result we felt it was ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-statement-competition-law-issues/

The IETF Administration LLC has now published a set of operational policies and its 2020 Strategic Plan.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-operational-policies-and-2020-strategic-plan/

The 108th IETF meeting will be held online July 27-31 from 11:00 to 16:00 UTC each day.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-preview/

Several new working groups are scheduled to meet for the first time during the IETF 108 Online meeting held 27-31 July 2020.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-five-first-time-wg-meetings/

Three presentations on a wide range of networking research will be featured during the Internet Research Task Force Open session of the IETF 108 Online meeting scheduled for 27-31 July.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-anrp-presentations/

The IETF 108 Online meeting will host three sessions aiming to form new working groups.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-bofs/

Registration is now open for the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) 2020, which will bring together researchers, operators and representatives of the Internet standards community from ar...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrw2020-registration/

The IETF 108 meeting, hosted by Ericsson, is switching to a fully online meeting over 5 days with an agenda structure similar to that of an in-person meeting.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-fee-waiver-new-policy/

The Internet Architecture Board held a virtual retreat in the first week of June, organized in three 1-hour all-IAB sessions and a bunch of break-out sessions distributed over the week.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-all-virtual-retreat-june-2020/

Almost immediately after the IETF 107 meeting concluded, discussions began about how the experience of participating in IETF meetings online could be improved.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-preparing/

At its meeting last week, the IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors received from external auditors the report of a clean result for its first-ever stand-alone annual financial statement.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-successful-first-annual-financial-review/

Explaining why we will charge for IETF 108 Online registration and how we set the fees.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-registration-fees/

With some preliminary scheduling decisions made for IETF 108, we wanted to explain how our survey data has informed decisionmaking thus far.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-survey-results-informed-planning/

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the IETF LLC Board of Directors, and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Chair have decided to replace the in-person IETF 108 Madrid meeting wi...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-online/

This IETF Annual Report 2019 provides a summary of Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Architecture Board, Internet Research Task Force, and RFC Editor community activities in 2019.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/annual-report-2019/

The initial results of the survey on planning for possible online IETF meetings are now available.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/community-views-possible-online-ietf-meetings/

Support of the premier Internet standards development organization includes hosting three future meetings

http://www.ietf.org/blog/global-host-huawei/

As set out in our recent email and blog post, we have developed an assessment framework and decision making process for the decision on whether or not the in-person IETF 108 Madrid can go ahead. ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/assessment-criteria-decision-personvirtual-ietf-108/

While email and calendaring are well-established Internet applications used by billions of people around the world, there is tons of work going on at the IETF right now to maintain and improve th...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/modernizing-email-and-calendars/

IETF 108 is scheduled to be held 25-31 July 2020 in Madrid, Spain. However, based on current conditions in Spain and around the world, we are actively planning for a virtual version of the IETF 1...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-planning-update/

Last week the IETF held its first-ever all-virtual meeting in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-highlights/

The 2020-2021 IESG and IAB were officially seated as more than 1000 leading technologists were set to join the first-ever virtual Internet Engineering Task Force meeting

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-2020-2021/

Following the announcement by the IESG and the IRTF Chair that the in-person IETF 107 Vancouver meeting is being cancelled, this is an update on various financial and administrative details.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-cancellation-administrative/

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Chair have decided to cancel the in-person IETF 107 Vancouver meeting. This decision is based on input w...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-in-person-cancelled/

This is a further update, as of 4 March 2020, on IETF 107 Vancouver and the ongoing situation with COVID-19 (Coronavirus).

http://www.ietf.org/blog/update-ietf-107-vancouver-and-covid-19/

As IETF 107 Vancouver approaches we thought it would be useful to update you on our planning around COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and the potential impact on this meeting.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/further-update-covid-19-coronavirus-and-ietf-107-vancouver/

For IETF 108 Madrid we will be introducing childcare for the first time at an IETF meeting to see how it goes.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/childcare-starting-ietf-108-madrid/

The IETF 107 meeting in Vancouver taking place March 21-27 will host four sessions aiming to form new working groups.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-bofs/

The IETF LLC Board met for a two-day face-to-face retreat on 29-30 January 2020 in Washington, D.C. I wanted to take this opportunity to give a quick update to the IETF community.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/recap-january-2020-ietf-llc-board-retreat/

I am pleased to announce that Greg Wood will be joining the IETF LLC as Director of Communications and Operations beginning February 1, 2020.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-staffing-update/

The IETF Administration LLC has finalised its 2020 budget following a community consultation.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2020-budget/

Providers of voice over IP in the United States will be required to implement the IETF’s Secure Telephony Identity Revisited (STIR) protocol as a result of recently enacted legislation to addre...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/stir-action/

Just over a year after it was published as an RFC, TLS 1.3 adoption is growing rapidly.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/tls13-adoption/

At the end of November the IETF community gathered in Singapore for its 106th meeting. Across all six of the IETF’s technical areas, we saw constructive discussions of new work proposals, exist...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf106-highlights/

The IETF Network Operations Center (NOC) team takes on the large task to build each meetings network. Monitoring the network once it is built is important. The NOC uses a number of tools and one ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/meeting-network-monitoring/

Looking ahead to IETF 106 taking place 16-22 November 2019 in Singapore? Here are a few final items to consider before the meeting starts.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf106-starts-soon/

The IETF Administration LLC has drafted the 2020 Budget under the guidance of its first permanent board. Careful consideration has been provided to each budget request as well as the needs of the...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/2020-draft-budget-narrative/

One of our key work items, developing policies for the IETF LLC, is now complete.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-policies-published/

The IESG held a second retreat in 2019 to focus on strategic objectives.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-strategic-retreat/

One of the most critical tasks facing the inaugural IETF LLC Board this year was to hire a permanent IETF Executive Director.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-exec-director/

All proposed sessions focused on new work will see time on the IETF 106 agenda.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf106-bofs/

Continuing the tradition of activity around the IETF on the Internet of Things (IoT), there was a great deal of work on topics related to or affecting IoT in Montreal at the latest IETF Hackathon...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf105-iot-wrapup/

Once again at IETF 105, a highlight of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open session was presentations by recent winners of the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP).

http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrp-ietf105/

We have all heard the the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” In that case, how many words is running code worth? Based on recent IETF Hackathons, I would estimate the number to be...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/how-many-words/

Recently, the output of the IETF Secure Telephony Identity Revisited (STIR) working group has received considerable attention from service providers, regulators, and the press because it addresse...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/stir/

The 105th gathering of the IETF community took place July 20-26, 2019. It featured several popular special sessions in addition to productive working group meetings.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-105-highlights/

The IETF community will gather in Montréal for its 105th meeting from July 20 to July 26, 2019.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf105-preview/

RFC 8617 addresses authentication failures in complex mail flows.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/arc/

Six sessions devoted to new work proposals will be scheduled on the IETF 105 agenda.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf105-bofs/

One of the IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors' key work items has been to develop policies for the IETF LLC. We are now beginning our first formal IETF community consultation during which...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-draft-policies-comment/

Presentations by recent winners of the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) were a highlight the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open session at IETF 104.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrp-ietf104/

Since 1993 the Tao of the IETF has functioned as the guide for new attendees to the IETF. Over time both the IETF and the Tao have changed. The last revision of the Tao was in 2012, which led us ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-version-tao-ietf/

The IETF Administration LLC has begun the public phase of our search for a permanent IETF Executive Director. The closing date for applications is 12 noon (EST) on Friday, June 21, 2019.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-execdir/

At IETF 104, there was a great deal of activity related to various aspects of the IoT ecosystem across numerous working groups, Birds-of-a-Feather gatherings, the Thing-to-Thing Research Group (T...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-iot-wrapup/

The IETF LLC Board met for a two-day face-to-face meeting last week in Washington, D.C.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-board-first-meeting/

IETF 104 in Prague featured what was by far the biggest and most successful IETF Hackathon ever.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/third-hackathon-prague/

Web Packaging is being considered for standardization. Would doing so create better Internet experiences? Consolidate more power into the hands of a few Internet giants? Make online content acces...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/webpackaging/

The new JMAP protocol addresses shortcomings of previous open protocols connecting email clients and servers were not designed for the modern age. JMAP is the result of efforts to address shortco...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/jmap/

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) spent two days of quality time exploring ways to improve the IETF at its annual retreat last week.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2019/

Prague proved once again to be a productive and fun venue to advance the work of the IETF.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-highlights/

More than 1200 leading technologists gathered 
for the 104th Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Prague

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-2018-2019/

For our 104th meeting we will be returning to one of the IETF’s favorite cities: Prague, Czech Republic.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-preview/

Support of the premier Internet standards development organization will include hosting the 106th IETF meeting on 16-22 November 2019

http://www.ietf.org/blog/nokia-globalhost/

This week the IETF again turns its attention to Internet of Things (IoT) security with the release of RFC 8520 on Manufacturer Usage Descriptions (MUD).

http://www.ietf.org/blog/mud/

The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol, recently published as RFC 8555, lets you set up a secure website in just a few seconds.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/acme/

The YANG Catalog, a platform for publishing and accessing information about and tooling for developing and using YANG models, is entering a new phase as it transitions to a platform supported by ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-catalog-move/

As chair of the 2018-2019 IETF Nominating Committee (NomCom), it gives me great pleasure to announce the results of the selection process for the IETF Administration LLC Board and the IETF Trust.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-board-ietf-trust-announcement-2019/

Six sessions focused on potential new work to be added to the IETF 104 agenda.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-bofs/

An RFC updating DNS terminology was recently published, continuing a decades-long IETF practice of publishing documents to help introduce interested readers to protocol topics by going through th...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/dns-terminology/

Comcast NBCUniversal, a long-time supporter of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), has made a significant contribution to the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC), which was established at ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-first-contribution/

The IETF Administration LLC is pleased to announce that Cisco will co-host IETF 104 with CZ.NIC. The meeting will be at the Hilton Prague March 23-29, 2019.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/cisco-co-host-ietf104/

The Chair of the 2018-2019 Nominating Committee (NomCom) announced the results of the NomCom selection process for the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) positions to serve for the 2019-2...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/annouce-nomcom-iesg-2019/

Just when you thought it could not get any better, the IETF Hackathon reached new heights, not just in number of participants or projects, but in meaningful contributions to the IETF community an...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-bangkok-jumpstarts-innovation/

The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) Interim Board has approved the 2019 budget as recommended by the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC).

http://www.ietf.org/blog/2019-ietf-administration-llc-budget/

The DoH specification in RFC 8484 defines a standardized format and protocol for sending Domain Name System (DNS) queries through HTTP rather than the traditional DNS protocol.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/doh-operational-and-privacy-issues/

The Internet is not merely about technology and business. The Internet affects many aspects of our lives and societies. And of course, our societies affect the Internet. One way that this happens...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/experiences-igf-2018/

Bert Hubert, the founder of PowerDNS and author of RFC 5452, shares his views on forces influencing DNS protocol development.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/herding-dns-camel/

From November 3 to 9, the IETF community gathered for its 103rd meeting in the bustling city of Bangkok. This was our first meeting in Thailand. The incredible hospitality, sleek venue, and delic...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-103/

From November 3 to 9, the IETF will gather for its first visit to Bangkok, Thailand. Here's snapshot of some of the sessions and topics on tap for the week.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-103-preview/

Two years ago, the IETF chartered the QUIC Working Group to "provide a standards-track specification for a UDP-based, stream-multiplexing, encrypted transport protocol, based on pre-standardizati...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/whats-happening-quic/

RFC8200 (STD86) was published a year ago and this elevates the IPv6 protocol to Internet Standard. This has been the long-awaited end result of the decades-long experience of deploying and collec...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ipv6-internet-standard/

Two Birds of a Feather sessions have been approved for the next IETF meeting, one of which focuses on Remote ATtestation ProcedureS (RATS).

http://www.ietf.org/blog/birds-and-rats/

For better or worse, Requests for Comments (RFCs) are how we specify many protocols on the Internet. These documents are alternatively treated as holy texts by developers who parse them for hidde...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/how-read-rfc/

As Ph.D. students, our typical encounter with the IETF community and their work is by stumbling over RFCs and Internet-Drafts that either relate to or are a fundamental basis for our research.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/researchers-first-encounter/

After more than 10 years, the IETF is making a major update to the administrative framework for supporting its work.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/evolving-administrative-arrangements/

William Zhang, a high school student from Alexandria, Virginia, USA presented his work on Automatic Multicast Tunneling at IETF 101 in March 2018.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/my-experience-ietf-newcomer/

TLS 1.3 updates the most important security protocol on the Internet, delivering superior privacy, security, and performance.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/tls13/

From July 14 to 20 over a thousand participants gathered in Montreal for a productive IETF meeting.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-102/

IETF 102, taking place July 14-20 in Montréal, Québec, Canada, is shaping up as a unique gathering for people from across a wide array of Internet engineering backgrounds and disciplines.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/something-everyone-ietf-102/

Three community discussion sessions on wide-ranging topics have been approved for the next IETF meeting.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/birds-feather-ietf-102/

Today is the 6th anniversary of World IPv6 Launch. We have come a long way since June 6, 2012.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/world-ipv6-launch-6th-anniversary/

At the end of April the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) gathered in Paris for its 2018 retreat.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2018/

The IETF has chartered a new working group to document changes to its administrative arrangements.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-working-group-chartered/

I am writing to share the sad news that Bob Braden has passed away. Bob's contributions to the development of the Internet were extensive.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/remembering-bob-braden/

IETF Hackathons began just over three years ago as a way of connecting Internet protocol development more closely with running code, and they have been growing ever since.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-london/

Just after IETF 101 in London, let’s analyze the current state of affairs in the YANG Data Models world.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-data-models-industry-march-2018/

The IETF community took full advantage of the opportunity to collaborate at the 101st IETF meeting last week in London, UK.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-101-highlights/

More than 1000 leading technologists gathered 
for the 101st Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in London

http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-architecture-board-and-internet-engineering-steering-group-seat-members-2018-2019/

IETF participants are gearing up for an intense week of collaboration and discussion at IETF 101, with numerous sessions focused on new work proposals and our largest Hackathon yet.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-101-preview/

One of the tasks of the Internet Architecture Board is to look at trends affecting the Internet. Recently, we've been discussing traffic flows and popular applications on the Internet, and the ro...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/consolidation/

A slate of new work proposals have been approved for scheduling at the upcoming IETF 101 meeting.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-ietf-101/

Bufferbloat is responsible for much of the poor performance seen in the Internet today and causes latency (called “lag” by gamers) even by your own routine web browsing and video playing.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/blind-men-and-elephant/

The IAOC is pleased to announce Bangkok, Thailand as the site for IETF 103 from November 3 - 9, 2018.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/bangkok-selected-ietf-103/

As chair of the 2017-2018 NomCom, it gives me great pleasure to announce the results of the NomCom selection process for all positions to serve for the 2018-2020 cycle.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-2017-2018-announcement-nomcom-selections/

Internet routers must be able to buffer packets: buffering acts like a shock absorber for transient overloads that arise when the input link is faster than the output link or packets arrive simul...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/codel-improved-networking-through-adaptively-managed-router-queues/

The deadline to submit Birds of a Feather (BoF) proposals for IETF 101 is rapidly approaching: Friday, February 2 at 23:59 UTC.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-101-bof-deadline/

The Internet Governance Forum’s meetings bring together Internet user communities, businesses, technical folk, and a set of UN and government bodies.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-governance-forum-2017/

Thanks to everyone who provided further input about the revamped www.ietf.org website around IETF 100.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-website-status-update/

For years, the IETF has been driving the industry transition from an overloaded Software Defined Networking (SDN) buzzword to data modeling-driven management.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-data-models-industry-current-state-affairs-november-2017/

Hackers.mu is a developer group based in Mauritius made up of a wide range of people from different backgrounds: high school students, university students, professional engineers, and advisors to...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/participating-ietf-hackathon-mauritius/

IETF 100 wrapped up just over a week ago in steamy Singapore. In addition to our usual productive working group sessions, hallway conversations, and ad hoc collaboration, we took the opportunity ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-100/

The YANG team delivered again at the IETF 100 hackathon. With our goal to help YANG model users and designers, we developed new automation tools.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-catalog-latest-developments-ietf-100-hackathon/

IETF 100 is just around the corner. It will offer all the usual opportunities for high-bandwidth exchange among IETF participants and collaboration around specs, coding and interop work. This pos...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-100-preview/

RFC 8188 builds on existing protocols to provide a new option for delivering trustworthy messages containing confidential information over the Internet.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/privacy-and-trustworthiness-web-notifications/

A highly interactive workshop organized by the Internet Architecture Board raises important issues and generates ideas for significant follow-on work.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ename-workshop/

Birds of a Feather sessions (BoFs) are initial, informal, in-person discussions about a particular the topic of interest to the IETF community. BoFs may or may not lead to establishing an IETF Wo...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-ietf-100/

The IAOC is pleased to announce Vancouver, BC, Canada as the site for IETF 107 from March 21 - 27, 2020.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/vancouver-selected-ietf-107/

In early 2002, the RFC Editor revised their website look and feel to one that would stay essentially unchanged for the next 13 years.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-rfc-editor-website/

I am pleased to share that the IAOC has successfully concluded its search for an interim IETF Administrative Director.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/interim-ietf-administrative-director-hired/

With the intention to encourage the development of a solution to an issue currently under discussion within an IETF working group, I wanted to offer a personal view of a possible ways forward.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/strengthening-internet-security-and-accommodating-data-center-requirements-finding-path-forward/

IETF Internet Area Director Suresh Krishnan provides a brief wrap up from IETF 99.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-99-wrap/

IETF 99 is about to kick off in Prague, Czech Republic. There is lots of exciting work going on across more than 100 working groups, plus Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions, plenary talks, and oth...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-99-preview/

Working on technical standards in the computing, communications and networking industries often involves dealing with patents. Like most standards-development organizations (SDOs), the IETF has p...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/whats-behind-bcp79bis/

5G is the latest generation of cellular network standards. There’s a tremendous amount of activity around it in the industry. But how does 5G relate to Internet technology? Are there 5G-related...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/5g-and-internet-technology/

On the joint day of the the recent IESG and IAB retreats, the group discussed a number of topics related to network operator activities for encrypted flows.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/what-does-internet-access-mean/

Last week I had the opportunity to participate at the 3GPP plenary meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, at the invitation of the 3GPP liaison to the IETF, Georg Mayer.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/working-together-3gpp-5g/

Before each IETF meeting, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) collects proposals for new working groups. We decide which ones are ready for community discussion on the IETF meeting age...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-upcoming-ietf-99-meeting/

Recently published IETF RFCs aim to expand the capabilities of such services, and to make them more broadly implementable.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/increasing-capabilities-advanced-automatic-crash-notifications/

Periodic posts on the IETF Blog highlight individuals who serve in IETF leadership roles, people who have recently begun working in the IETF, and organizations that make the work of the IETF poss...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/profile-mirja-kuhlewind/

The IESG held its annual retreat last week, meeting one day jointly with the IAB and two days on our own in Montreal, Canada.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2017/

As Routing Area Directors, we have now made it a habit to share some of our thoughts after each IETF meeting. This is a short summary of some of the highlights from the recent one in Chicago.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/routing-area-update-after-ietf-98/

About a month ago I officially took on the role of IETF Chair.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/looking-ahead-facing-change/

Newly selected members of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Committee (IESG) were officially seated in their new roles during the 98th Internet Engineeri...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-2017/

There has been a lot of progress on the project to revamp of the www.ietf.org website.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/seeking-community-feedback-revamp-wwwietforg/

The IETF 98 is now over. This was a successful IETF meeting in multiple ways, one of which is the IETF Hackathon, two days of hacking on Saturday/Sunday.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-catalog-latest-development-ietf-98-hackathon/

The 98th IETF meeting wrapped up last Friday in Chicago. It was a typically busy work week for IETF participants, but also a special week, as a number of changes in our leadership became official...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-98/

Periodic posts on the IETF Blog highlight individuals who serve in IETF leadership roles, people who have recently begun working in the IETF, and organizations that make the work of the IETF poss...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/profile-jari-arkko/

Periodic posts will highlight individuals who serve in IETF leadership roles, people who have recently begun working in the IETF, and organizations that make the work of the IETF possible. Each p...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/profile-alissa-cooper/

The Chicago IETF begins in a couple of days, and I wanted to point people to a few highlights from my perspective.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-98-highlights/

IETF Hackathons embody the IETF’s tradition of running code—testing theories against the realties of implementation, with a goal of accelerating the definition and adoption of protocols and t...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/university-students-create-running-code-internet/

Recent news stories, and some IETF list discussion, have related to the release of (claimed) CIA materials relating to surveillance, hacking and information warfare.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/observations-cia-revelations/

The current IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) arrangements were created more than ten years ago when the IETF initially took charge of its own administration .

http://www.ietf.org/blog/reviewing-and-assessing-ietf-administrative-support-activity/

Every year, the IETF selects its leadership through the nominations committee or NomCom process. Today, the committee has announced our new steering group (IESG) members.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-iesg/

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a global community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers that develops Internet protocols.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/barriers-entry/

RFCs are documents designed to serve a variety of purposes. They offer information to developers engineers on how to make the Internet interoperate.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-rfc-archive/

The essence of the IETF is that it is a place for people who both write code and specs.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-chicago/

First, there will be a CodeSprint on Saturday March 25th just before IETF-98 in Chicago.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/call-tools-volunteers-and-contractors/

Do you have an idea that you believe would be worthwhile standardising? Now would be a great time to start talking about it, in time for our meeting in Chicago in March!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ideas-ietf-98/

The Internet Governance Forum or IGF is a discussion forum on matters relating to the administrative and policy questions surrounding the Internet. A handful of IETFers attended the yearly IGF me...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-governance-forum-igf-2016/

I wanted to send a post summarising my thoughts of the discussions at IETF-97. We had 1042 people from 52 countries on site in Seoul, very active development on a number of fronts, and I thought ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/reflections-ietf-97/

Looking Back on IETF 97

http://www.ietf.org/blog/reflections-routing-area-after-ietf-97/

This report is sent out before IETF-97 begins, in an effort to reduce reporting at the plenary and to provide an ability to discuss topics on list beforehand and afterwards.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-and-chair-report-ietf-97/

Let me start with some good news. Not only we recently approved RESTCONF (right now in the RFC editor queue), but we published the IPv4 and IPv6 base routing models in RFC 8022.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-quick-status-update-ietf-97/

IETF-97 is starting in a couple of days in Seoul, Korea, as well as running online for many participants connecting over the Internet.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-97/

The arrangements relating to administrative support for the IETF (IASA, RFC 4071) were created more than ten years ago, when the IETF initially took charge of its own administration.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/proposed-project-ietf-administrative-support-20/

The scale, complexity, and potential harm of Denial-of-Service attacks involving the use of compromised or misconfigured nodes or “things” is increasing. Across multiple services and activiti...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/attacks-against-architecture/

A month before the meeting our steering group collects proposals for new working groups. We decide which ones are ready enough for the community to discuss the proposals in the meeting. We did th...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-seoul/

Today marks the execution of the contracts and arrangements relating to the IANA stewardship transition. The US government has ended their role in this matter. I am happy about the transition, an...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-stewardship-and-transition-goes-ahead/

Standards organisations have their areas of work, but for many topics efforts affect multiple organisations, or even span across multiple organisations. Take the IETF and the IEEE for instance, a...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/working-ieee-802/

I wanted to remind you that we are soliciting proposals for new work at the IETF. If you have an idea, this would be a good time to bring it up!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/bofs-ietf-97/

The essence of the IETF is not that we write specs for some other people to implement. It is that we are a place for people who write code to write specs as well. With that in mind, a big part of...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/codesprints-hackathons-and-interops-seoul/

Kicking off IETF 96 in Berlin, Germany was the weekend’s IETF Hackathon. There is growing engagement between the Open Source communities and the IETF. The IETF Hackathon had more participants t...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/routing-area-directors-thoughts-ietf-96/

We had a great meeting in Berlin, the IETF crowd clearly likes to meet there! As our meeting ended, we had 1424 people participating on site and 337 people remotely. Out of the registered remote ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-96-thoughts/

“There’s a huge problem with the Internet of Things and we need to do something about it.” That was the invitation that brought participants to the Internet of Things Software Update Worksh...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/patching-internet-things-iot-software-update-workshop-2016/

When the idea of participating in this hackathon came about, the goal was mostly to leverage FD.io’s Vector Packet Processor (VPP) as a platform and show its performance, capabilities, modulari...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/hacking-packet-processing-ietf96/

This report is sent out before IETF-96 begins, in an effort to reduce reporting at the plenary and to provide an ability to discuss topics on list beforehand and afterwards. This reporting style ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-chair-and-iesg-report-ietf-96/

I arrived in Berlin today, but there are many volunteers and support vendors who arrived days earlier to prepare for the meeting. It takes a lot of effort to setup the network, for instance. The ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/berlin-network/

Today is the deadline for registering at the IETF with the early bird price. Do register!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-and-hackathon-coming/

During nearly every IETF meeting since 1993, an informal gathering of women participants, the Systers, has taken place. We chose the name Systers as an answer to the late Anita Borg’s call for ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-systers/

In my experience it is important that we talk to each other, all of us, the techies, the operators, the economists, and the policy people. We live in a connected world that is developing very rap...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/working-together/

I wanted to provide a brief update on the the progress of the www.ietf.org website revamp project, which began in earnest last year and is scheduled to move into production by the end of this yea...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/wwwietforg-revamp-update/

I wanted to report what new ideas are going to be discussed at the meeting in Berlin in July.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-topics-berlin-meeting/

In the midst of a day’s discussion about particular issue that troubles us with technology or something else, it can be difficult to focus on topics that have a longer timescale. As you probabl...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/long-term-ietf-evolution/

Today the US Department of Commerce National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) announced that the Internet community’s proposal to transition the stewardship of the Interne...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ntia-assessment-iana-stewardship-transition-proposal/

If you have followed the IETF discussion list recently, you’ve probably seen a thread about a planned meeting in Singapore next year. Traditionally, the IETF announces meeting sites as they hav...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/meeting-woes/

The IETF meetings are a busy time for many of the active participants, including members of our steering group or the IESG. Most of the time is spent in actual working group meetings, and there�...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-leadership-team-retreats/

The IESG has just had a two and half days of meetings in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These events are an important opportunity for our group to meet and discuss broader topics and IETF work in more...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2016/

We had a great IETF 95 meeting in Buenos Aires a few weeks ago, with a lot of topics and many participants.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-95-summary/

Over the last few years, the IETF community has been focused on improving and expanding the use of the technical foundations for Internet security.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-getting-tls-13-working-browser/

I am pleased to announce that Ericsson has just signed a MoU with the ISOC (Internet Society) in which Ericsson commits to support the IETF in a ongoing fashion.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ericsson-commits-support-ietf-long-term/

In 2013, the IESG set the IETF anti-harassment policy. The IETF strives to create and maintain an environment in which people of many different backgrounds are treated with dignity, decency, and ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/team-help-regarding-harassment-concerns/

A recent Internet Draft noted the growing Free and Open Source Software movement as a trend that the IETF, as a community, can participate in by helping open source and open standards work togeth...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/bringing-together-open-standards-and-open-source-2016/

This morning I arrived in Buenos Aires, where volunteers and staff have been busy preparing for our 95th IETF meeting. It looks like everything is ready, the network is up and the hotel facilitie...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/buenos-dias-buenos-aires/

The IETF is about interoperation. Yes, IETF participants like cleaner architecture, and more elegant solutions, and so on. But at bottom, both “rough consensus” and “running code” are all...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/interoperability-things-iot-semantic-interoperability-iotsi-workshop-2016/

It’s almost time to pack our bags and head south to Argentina. This is the IETF’s first ever meeting in Latin America!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/bienvenidos-buenos-aires-welcome-buenos-aires/

Just before the IETF 95 in Buenos Aires, let’s analyze the current state of affairs in the YANG Data Models world.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-data-models-industry-current-state-affairs/

Many of us have been working over the last two years on a small change to the way the IANA functions are managed.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/transition-plan-enters-new-phase/

My previous blog post was about the IETF BoFs, but there are also new meetings in the research arm of the IETF, the IRTF.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-research-groups-ietf-95/

With the preliminary agenda just published (or soon will be), I wanted to report what Birds-of-Feather (BoF) sessions there will be at IETF-95. This time there is quite a lot of work following up...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/bofs-ietf-95/

Some time ago I mentioned the Internet of Things Semantic Interoperability (IOTSI) workshop organised by the IAB. This workshop is important for the work on application data formats, semantic def...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iotsi-workshop-position-papers/

This blog post is not about technology. A while ago I asked for volunteers to help us understand some of the non-technical changes around the IETF.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/non-technical-trends-affecting-ietf/

Thinking of some new ideas that could be worked on by the IETF? This Friday, February 19th, 23:59 UTC is the deadline to submit proposals for what we call Bird-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions at IETF...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-working-groups-ietf-95/

I cannot think of a better example where interoperability is important than the Internet of Things. Without interoperability, lights won’t work with the switches, sensor’s can’t be read by ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/interoperable-internet-things/

The IETF turns 30! As we work on the day-to-day tasks needed to make the Internet work better, or even as we look back over last year and gaze ahead to the year to come, from time-to-time it is u...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/30-years-engineering-internet/

With the year closing, I wanted to make a post highlighting some of the events and hot topics of the year. And say a few words about the challenges that lie ahead.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/year-2015-and-beyond/

It’s been a while since we’ve had a diversity related update and with the approval of the Anti-Harassment BCP and publication of the Independent Stream Editor (ISE) document, RFC7704 it seems...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-diversity-update/

Perhaps the topmost thing on my mind is how friendly and welcoming place Japan is for the IETF.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/yokohama-summary/

The Internet Governance Forum or IGF is an organisation that enables the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet. It is an open meeting for many different types of participa...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-governance-forum/

The Yokohama IETF Hackathon is now in progress!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/hacking/

The Yokohama Code Sprint is in progress! There are a few new code sprinters, and part our efforts has been in setting up development environments for them, as well as building a Docker image so t...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/code-sprinting/

Welcome to IETF-94, and back to Yokohama! We were here in 2002, yet I remember it like yesterday. The impression left by the scenery, the Japanese friendliness, food, and many other things was la...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-yokohama-ietf-again/

Both the IETF and the W3C are meeting in Japan this month.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/visiting-w3c-meeting/

A recent paper on shortcomings of Diffie-Hellman key exchange has received attention and raised questions about security on the Internet, as Diffie-Hellman is used for cryptographic handshakes in...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/improving-security-internet-diffie-hellman-case-study/

We’re both at ICANN 54 in Dublin, and of course a big topic is the IANA transition.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/strange-familiar-dublin/

The ICANN 54 meeting is now starting in Dublin, Ireland. On the agenda are various topics around the IANA stewardship transition.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/icann54/

横浜のIETFのためのプログラミング!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/codesprinting-yokohama/

Claims of encryption having a effect on network bandwidth optimisation methods have been coming thick and fast to the IETF since IETF89. To help understand the real use cases and issues the IAB o...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-marnew-workshop/

One of the things that can make surveillance too easy is when the technology we use has weaknesses.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/1984/

MaRNEW is a joint workshop between the IAB and the GSMA, and the focus will be on managing networks, particularly mobile ones, under the assumption that much of Internet traffic is or will be enc...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/encryption-and-network-management/

A key aspect of the IETF is running code, and we often apply our technology in our meetings, or run experiments to determine how well something works or gather information about networks.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/experiment-ethics-and-privacy/

The IETF community approved document using the Special-Use Domain Names registry established by RFC 6761 to register ‘.onion’ as a special-use name.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/onion/

The NETVC working group aims to create a video codec that can be used in open-source software, in addition to proprietary software and hardware encoders.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/aiming-standardized-high-quality-royalty-free-video-codec-remove-friction-video-over-internet/

Our meeting in Prague ended last Friday, and I wanted to thank everyone who participated! I hope you all have had an opportunity to return to home and rest after the trip.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-93-summary/

The combined proposal from three communities has today gone out from the IANA Transition Coordination Group. This is important.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/full-iana-transition-proposal/

Today’s blog post is a story from Adam Roach that he had originally shared on social media.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/birthday-ietf-meeting/

The IETF meeting rooms and registration desk are ready for the meetings to start. A lot of activity is already going on on Saturday this time, but actual registration opens on Sunday at 1000 in t...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/network-and-meeting-rooms-are-ready/

The IETF is once again in Prague! The city is clearly one of our favourites, given that we’ve been there also in 2007 and 2011.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-prague/

The 90th IETF starts next Sunday in Toronto, Canada. Canada is one of our favourite places to meet at.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-90/

I would like to update you on the IANA transition, including important events that took place at the 53rd ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-update-icann-53/

Earlier this week, I was sitting on a train ride through Finland. As usual, my iPad acted as a mobile broadband gateway, and I suddenly realized that my other devices were using IPv6 to reach the...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/sudden-changes-and-ipv6-everyone/

What will our first meeting next year be like?

http://www.ietf.org/blog/buenos-aires-alla-vamos/

Before an IETF meeting, we sometimes receive a few requests to extend the deadlines related to Internet Draft submissions.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/draft-deadlines-and-exceptions/

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Society (ISOC) hosted day-long Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale (CARIS) workshop took place last Friday in coordination with t...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/caris-workshop-summary-and-reflection/

Education and newcomer orientation activities have existed in the IETF in various forms from the early 1990s (if not earlier). As the IETF and the world around us evolves, we are now rethinking w...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ideas-ietf-education/

We will once again have a Code Sprint in Prague prior to IETF-93.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/code-sprint-ietf-93/

This is a good time to submit more new proposals for the IETF!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ideas-ietf-93/

An IETF meeting is a busy time for the Area Directors. We do not have much time for discussing IETF-wide topics or getting to know new team members. Every year we meet for a couple of days as a t...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat/

The first flow-related BoF (birds of a feather) took place in London in summer 2001 during the IETF meeting 51.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/netflow-ipfix-psamp-13-years-standardization-explained/

On the weekend before the IETF meeting in Prague (July 18-19), we will hold our second IETF Hackathon event at the Hilton Prague.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon/

This is a brief report from a meeting between a number of Internet organisations that took place last week in London.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-organisations-coordination-meeting/

Every year, IETF’s leadership groups (IAB, IESG, IAOC) meet for retreats. This year all the three groups meet in London.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/retreats-2015/

End-to-end (e2e) encryption for email is hard. We know this from OpenPGP and S/MIME efforts with the main problem being around obtaining, installing, and exchanging keys.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/end-end-message-encryption-can-it-be-done/

One of the great scientific challenges of our time is the construction of a practical quantum computer.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-security-vs-quantum-computing/

You may have heard about the IANA transition, or to be more precise, about the transition of US government oversight relating to IANA. In March 2014, the US government announced their intent to r...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-protocol-parameters-explained/

La semana pasada, al hablar de Internet abierta para un evento de Gobernanza en Moscú, Jari se reunió con gente del Capítulo Rusia de Internet Society.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/plurilingue-ietf/

The upgrade to the datatracker UI mentioned in plenary at IETF 92 has just been released. This effort has been underway for more than a year.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-datatracker-ui/

Last week, while speaking about open Internet in Moscow for an Internet Governance event, Jari met with folks from the Internet Society Russia Chapter. They had recently made a translation of the...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/monikielinen-ietf/

Today marks the 46th anniversary of RFC 1.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/rfc-1/

Thank you all for a wonderful meeting. I wanted to thank all the sponsors and participants, and our host Google for their support. And the wonderful social event. Well done, you all!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/thoughts-ietf-92/

Newly selected members of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Committee (IESG) met in person for the first time during the 92nd Internet Engineering Task F...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-internet-engineering-steering-group-and-internet-architecture-board-members-selected/

Coordinating incident response at Internet scale as a concept sounds fabulous, but can we achieve it? What will it take?

http://www.ietf.org/blog/coordinating-incident-response-internet-scale-caris/

First things first, the network for IETF-92 is up and works well! Both the meeting area and hotel room networks are operational.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/behind-scenes/

There is just 10 days until our next meeting begins, in Dallas, Texas. This is our third visit to Dallas

http://www.ietf.org/blog/10-days-ietf-92/

We will once again have a Code Sprint, now in Dallas prior to IETF-92.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-tools-and-dallas/

One question that often comes up regarding the IANA Stewardship transition is how to ensure that the IANA protocol parameter registries continue to serve the worldwide Internet community.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ensuring-continuity-iana-registries/

After more than two years of discussion, over 200 design issues, 17 drafts, and 30 implementations, the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications have now been approved by the IETF’s steering group for p...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/http2-approved/

The deadline for submitting proposals for new working groups for IETF-92 is approaching fast.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-proposals-ietf-92/

I’m on the train this morning after the two-day Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet (SEMI) workshop at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/semi-workshop/

In less than 9 months–representing just two IETF meeting cycles–the DiffServ Applied to Real-time Transports (DART) working group (WG) moved from a concept to Internet Engineering Steering Gr...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/dart-moving-rapidly-need-solution-webrtc/

The IETF traces its start back to a meeting that took place 29 years ago today, January 16th. Happy birthday, IETF!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-turns-29/

Protocol parameters such as port numbers are an integral part of technical specifications that the IETF produces and developers implement. Along with naming and numbering functions, protocol para...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/taking-step-towards-iana-transition/

In March the US government announced their intent to move their role in overseeing the IANA system to the Internet community. Since the announcement, the communities impacted by IANA functions ha...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-iana-transition-proposal-last-call/

Just after the IETF 90 meeting last July, I posted this “YANG Takes Off in the Industry” blog.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-really-takes-industry/

Our meeting in Honolulu is over. How did it go? Let us know. In the following I have collected some of my own observations.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-91-summary/

This week at IETF91 we carried out an experiment to randomize Wi-Fi MAC addresses of users to improve privacy.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/mac-privacy/

New to the IETF, or exploring new topics for your work? I wanted to point people to the various introductory sessions and materials that we have about the IETF and Internet technology.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/exploring-ietf/

I wanted to welcome everyone to the 91st IETF meeting that is starting tomorrow, November 9th, here in Honolulu, Hawaii. I also wanted to welcome our remote attendees!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-91/

We wanted to let you know that a number of Chinese participants have had trouble for getting visas to this meeting.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/getting-visas-ietf-meeting/

The network for the IETF is a bit of a unique beast.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/networks-paradise-or-its-christmas-noc/

The IETF meeting in Honolulu starts a week from now.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/honolulu-ietf-hot-topics/

I thought it might be useful to provide a brief summary of some of the things that have happened in the past week related to the transition of the IANA Stewardship.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-icann-51/

New IETF work begins often as a proposed new working group, through something called a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/hawaii-bof-proposals-due-soon/

We will once again have a Code Sprint in Honolulu prior to IETF-91.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/hawaii-code-sprint/

The transition of NTIA’s stewardship of IANA has been discussed extensively. Just last week there was a meeting of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group or ICG.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-transition-update/

The OpenStand approach to creating global standards has never been more relevant—or important—than it is today.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/celebrating-importance-openstand/

The IETF has had another lively discussion about mailing list usage in the ietf@ietf.org mailing list, followed by a long plenary debate on how to make it more useful to the community.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/mailing-lists-what-works-what-doesnt/

In 2003, RFC 3535, “Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop” documented the outcomes of a dialog started between network operators and protocol developers to guide the IETFs focu...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-takes-industry/

IETF-90 is over and I wanted to provide a summary of what I saw in the meeting.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-90-summary/

We have built a lot of support for remote attendance in the IETF, but this week I saw something new.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/robots-are-taking-over-ietf/

On Thursday morning of the IETF 90 meeting, we had a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session called IANAPLAN: Planning for the IANA/NTIA Transition.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/plan-iana/

Last week, I visited the ICANN50 meeting in London. The meeting was held at a location well known to us at the IETF – the Hilton London Metropole.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/icann-and-transition-ntias-stewardship/

For every IETF meeting, the steering group receives a number of proposals for new work. Not all new work in the IETF has to go through a public meeting to be accepted.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-90-bofs/

New IETF work begins often as a proposed new working group, through something called a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-90-bof-deadline-coming/

During an IETF meeting, the IESG and IAB members are busy with what is going on in our areas, and we have little time to talk to each other. But we organise yearly retreats where we get to talk t...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/retreat-and-lacnic/

The NETmundial meeting was held last week in São Paulo, Brazil. I wanted to provide a brief report of my view of the meeting and its outcome.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/netmundial-summary/

I have previously talked about the upcoming changes at IANA.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-changes-process/

The two-day NETmundial conference that starts on Wednesday. Me, Russ, and several other IETFers are attending this event.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/netmundial/

The previous blog post talked about the IANA discussions at the ICANN meeting. But of course that was not the only topic that we talked about.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-tlds/

Two weeks ago there was an announcement from the US government regarding their role in managing IANA.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-changes/

The leaders of the Internet technical organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet infrastructure (IETF, IAB, RIRs, ccTLD ROs, ICANN, ISOC, and W3C), welcome the US Government’s a...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-technical-leaders-welcome-iana-globalization-progress/

I wanted to share two excellent videos in this post.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-89-videos/

Today I would like to celebrate the anniversaries of the World Wide Web (25 years) and W3C (20 years).

http://www.ietf.org/blog/web-anniversary/

With the IETF week over, I wanted to write a brief summary of the main discussions. And what a week! I spent ten days in London due to a workshop preceding the IETF and even some meetings that to...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-89-summary/

The IETF-89 meeting is starting a week from now in London, UK. This is our second time in London. Our previous visit was IETF-51 in August 2001.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-89/

The IETF’s relevance in the marketplace was the subject of a workshop held by the IAB in December in Cambridge UK on Internet Technology Adoption and Transition (ITAT).

http://www.ietf.org/blog/views-internet-technology-adoption/

Today is International Data Privacy Day, and I wanted to let Alissa Cooper say a few words about how we are working on privacy topics at the IETF. - Jari Arkko, IETF Chair

http://www.ietf.org/blog/celebrating-data-privacy-day/

I wanted to draw attention to Mark Nottingham’s excellent blog article about strengthening HTTP.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/http-20/

In this article I wanted to highlight an important but often hidden part in the IETF ecosystem: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).

http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana/

The last days of the year seems like a good opportunity to reflect on some of things that happened during 2013.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/2013-review/

Wow. What a week!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/we-will-strengthen-internet/

L’IETF a suscité un large consensus pour l’amélioration de la sécurité des protocoles Internet en réponse à la surveillance omniprésente

http://www.ietf.org/blog/les-leaders-en-ingenierie-decident-de-mettre-jour-des-normes-afin-dameliorer-la-confidentialite-et-la-securite-sur-internet/

Amplio consenso de la IETF por mejorar la seguridad de los protocolos de Internet en respuesta a la vigilancia generalizada

http://www.ietf.org/blog/destacados-ingenieros-coinciden-en-que-hay-que-actualizar-las-normas-para-mejorar-la-seguridad-y-privacidad-en-internet/

IETF reaches broad consensus to improve the security of Internet protocols to respond to pervasive surveillance

http://www.ietf.org/blog/leading-engineers-agree-upgrade-standards-improve-internet-privacy-and-security/

Reports about pervasive surveillance have been the big discussion topic in the Internet community in the last couple of months. Our commerce, business, and personal communications all depend on t...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/strengthening-internet/

In Berlin, you may have noticed many students among the IETF participants. Many of them were brought to the IETF by a pilot university outreach programme, run by ISOC with 15 universities in Germ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/piloting-university-outreach-programme/

The IETF network for the meeting is up. Even the network in the hotel rooms switched to IETF network by mid-Friday. Everything is ready for the IETFers to come!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/network/

The IETF-88 meeting is starting next week in Vancouver. Vancouver is a long-time IETF favourite city, as this will be our fifth time there. And we were there just last year. Vancouver works well ...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-88/

More than 1200 top engineers and technologists will assemble to advance the development of open Internet standards

http://www.ietf.org/blog/huawei-hosts-88th-internet-engineering-task-force-meeting/

When I visited the ICANN meeting last summer, they were about to launch a set of panels to advice themselves about strategic topics in coming years. Those panels are now operational.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/future-identifiers/

As I mentioned in “Security and Pervasive Monitoring” article in September, the IETF community has expressed concerned about the large-scale monitoring of Internet traffic.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/plenary-internet-hardening/

I visited the RIPE meeting and IGF meetings recently, and wanted to post two speeches that I held in these events.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/speeches/

Last week I toured China, talking to the local IETF contributors. And there are so many! I talked to people from equipment vendors, operators, researcher institutions, and local standards organis...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/china/

The Internet community and the IETF care deeply about how much we can trust commonly used Internet services and the protocols that these services use.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/security-and-pervasive-monitoring/

It seems like yesterday when we were in Berlin, but I wanted to highlight that our Vancouver meeting is coming up soon.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/vancouver/

The IETF meeting in Berlin is now over. I hope everyone has been able to return home safely, and that you all can enjoy at least a weekend if not some vacation time after a busy meeting week.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/meeting-summary/

I wanted to return to a topic that we have talked about before: increasing diversity at the IETF.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/diverse-ietf/

A while ago I wrote about the issue of the IETF document process being quite heavy-weight in its final stages. Documents go through a lot of review and changes in their last few months. Some of t...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/role-working-groups/

This week I’m visiting the ICANN meeting in Durban, South Africa. It has been an opportunity to meet many interesting people and get a glimpse of the issues that other important organisations i...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/different-internet/

The Internet of Things is about embedding communications technology in all objects that can benefit from it, from cars to buildings, everyday objects and even materials. This is an ongoing revolu...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/web-things/

In two weeks, we will have the IETF-87 meeting in Berlin! The previous time IETF was in Germany was in August 1997 in Munich – that was too long ago and it is a pleasure to be back!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-87/

I would like to talk about standards and what kind of approaches are suitable for developing them when it comes to Internet technology and applications.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/permissionless-innovation/

One of the most rewarding parts of my job is talking to various IETF contributors or people who rely on our results, and trying to understand their experiences about the IETF process and what kin...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/balancing-process/

Diversity has been a recent big discussion topic at the IETF. Many of us have participated in this discussion, but I also wanted to bring it up here in the blog.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/diversity/

I wanted to return to the topic of Bits-n-Bites which we briefly reported on already earlier. Dan York and Paul Brigner from ISOC shot a few videos of some of the interesting demos, and the video...

http://www.ietf.org/blog/bits-n-bites-video/

I was asked to discuss some of the work that the IETF is doing with their Bits-N-Bites program, and some of the demos and lab work we did at IETF86 in Orlando this past week.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/bits-n-bites-ietf-86/

IETF participants define the standards for the global network that connects more than 2 billion people

http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-engineering-task-force-and-internet-architecture-board-announce-new-leadership-teams/

Our meeting in Orlando ended on Friday. I thought it was a very successful meeting, and brought up many new topics that we should pursue.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/running-code-ietf-86/

I would like to welcome you all to Orlando, where the 86th IETF meeting starts on Sunday!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-86/

The previous article talked about how exciting and important the work at the IETF is. And it is. But there are also challenges, both for the Internet as a whole and for us at the IETF.

http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-challenges/

Welcome to a new publication from the IETF, a blog from the (incoming) IETF chair!

http://www.ietf.org/blog/chairs-blog/

IEEE, IAB, IETF, Internet Society and W3C Invite Other Standards Organizations, Governments and Companies to Support Modern Paradigm for Global, Open Standards

http://www.ietf.org/blog/leading-global-standards-organizations-endorse-openstand-principles-drive-innovation-and-borderless-commerce/