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Catch up on IETF 117 San Francisco

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.

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    IETF 118 Prague 

    IETF 118 starts Saturday 4 November and runs through Friday afternoon, 10 November.

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    IETF 119 Brisbane 

    IETF 119 starts Saturday 16 March and runs through Friday afternoon, 22 March.

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  • Catching up on IETF 117 

    Recordings are now available for sessions held during the IETF 117 meeting and the IETF Hackathon, where more than 1500 participants gathered in San Francisco and online 22-28 July 2023.

    31 Jul 2023
  • Net zero update for July 2023 

    The carbon footprint calculator developed last year provides calculations for the IETF 116 meeting and have been doing some initial research into additional steps we might take to reduce and possibly offset the IETF’s carbon footprint.

    19 Jul 2023
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Working Groups

Working Groups are the primary mechanism for development of IETF specifications and guidelines. Working Groups are typically created to address a specific problem or to produce one or more specific deliverables (a guideline, standards specification, etc.).

Featured Working Group

Messaging Layer Security

Messaging Layer Security provides end-to-end security that makes it easy for apps to provide users the highest level of security, keeping user information safe even if the cloud service they’re using…

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Request for Comments (RFCs)

The IETF publishes RFCs authored by network operators, engineers, and computer scientists to document methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the Internet.

Featured RFC

The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol

The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol specifies a key establishment protocol that provides efficient asynchronous group key establishment with forward secrecy (FS) and post-compromise security …

RFC 9420was: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9420/

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Next IETF meeting

Stay tuned for the latest information on the next IETF meeting scheduled for 4-10 November 2023

Visit the IETF 118 meeting webpage