Skip to main content
  • IETF Community Survey 2025

    Each year the IETF Community Survey provides a comprehensive assessment of community demographics, engagement patterns, and perceptions of organizational effectiveness. The full report from the 2025 edition is now available.

    14 Jul 2026
  • Birds of a Feather at IETF 126

    The IETF 126 Vienna meeting takes place 18–24 July 2026. As at every IETF meeting, alongside the established Working Groups there will be a handful of Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions—and these are often the most interesting place to watch where Internet standards work is heading next.

    2 Jul 2026
  • From Lab to RFC: A PhD Student's Journey through the IETF

    Martine Sophie Lenders has been regularly participating in the IETF for over a decade, starting with the IETF 93 meeting in Prague in 2015. She has authored several Internet-Drafts—two of which recently were published as RFCs—and at the same time works on a PhD at FU Berlin and as a research associate at TU Dresden. We asked a few questions about what her experience in the IETF has been like while pursuing an academic journey.

    1 Jul 2026
  • Suggested IETF 126 Sessions for Getting Familiar with New Topics

    These IETF 126 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 participants.

    29 Jun 2026
  • IETF LLC Board Retreat 2026

    The IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors held its annual retreat 29-30 April 2026 in Amsterdam. In addition to all Board members, the IETF Executive Director, the Director of Finance, and the Board Secretary were present. Here is a short summary of the main points we discussed.

    4 Jun 2026

Filter by topic and date

Filter by topic and date

Vancouver

3 Sep 2013

It seems like yesterday when we were in Berlin, but I wanted to highlight that our Vancouver meeting is coming up soon.

Vancouver

It seems like yesterday when we were in Berlin, but I wanted to highlight that our Vancouver meeting is coming up soon. Sooner than usual, in fact, given the dates of the meetings this year. The meeting starts in just 60 days, on November 3rd.

The meeting host is Huawei. They are one of the biggest contributors in Internet standards work today and a long time sponsor of the IETF. Thank you for hosting us in Vancouver! The support of the host is an important part of setting up a successful meeting.

And I have high expectations for the meeting, given the exciting work that is ongoing in various working groups, not to mention some proposals for new work. But given that the meeting is so close, I wanted to note that proposals for those new efforts are due September 23rd, just three weeks away. Talk to your Area Directors about these efforts right away, if you have not done so already. Requests to schedule a working group meeting are due also on the 23rd.

And, for everyone, registration is open – please register to the meeting!

I am personally looking forward to going again to Vancouver, a beautiful city, and the location of many productive IETF meetings. IETF-88 is the fifth meeting we hold in Vancouver!

Here are some important links for meeting:

Photo by Brian Campbell


Share this page