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Presenting at my first IETF meeting

Read how a presentation at the IETF114 meeting MBONED working group session turned into an introduction to "an incredible community"

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IETF 114 post-meeting survey
The results from our IETF 114 post-meeting survey are now available on a web-based interactive dashboard. This commentary highlights where changes we have made based on feedback have been a success, and areas we still need to work on.
18 Aug 2022
Presenting at my first IETF meeting
Walking up to the check-in desk at IETF 114, my very first IETF meeting, was a very strange experience for me. However, over the course of the three days that I was there, I ended up having a great newcomers experience.
15 Aug 2022

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The MBONE Deployment Working Group is a forum for coordinating the deployment, engineering, and operation of multicast routing protocols and procedures in the global Internet, inter-domain and singl…

mboned mboned@ietf.org

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Topics of interest

Automated network management
The IETF is working on standards for automated network management which, as the name implies, aims to improve and make more efficient management of networks as they continue to increase in size and complexity.
The Internet of Things at the IETF
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