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Have a new idea for discussion? Consider proposing a Birds of a Feather session.

Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions at IETF meetings are one way to initiate discussions about a particular topic of interest to the IETF community. The deadline for proposing BOFs for IETF 115 is 9 September.

Learn more about how to propose a BOF session.

Upcoming events

IETF 115 London
IETF 115 starts Saturday 5 November and runs through Friday afternoon, 11 November.
London, UK
IETF 116 Yokohama
IETF 116 starts Saturday 25 March and runs through Friday afternoon, 31 March.
Yokohama, Japan

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What's new?

Supporting diversity and inclusion at IETF meetings by providing childcare
Thanks to the generous support of IETF Diversity & Inclusion sponsors, onsite childcare at an IETF meeting was provided for the first time ever during IETF 114. The successful experience and continued support of sponsors means it will again be offered at the IETF 115 meeting on 5-11 November 2022.
14 Sep 2022
IETF Annual Report 2021
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 activities from last year.
9 Sep 2022

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Search the IETF email archive

Much of the daily work of the IETF is conducted on electronic mailing lists. A new mail archive tool realizing the requirements developed in RFC 6778 is now in use:

Search IETF Datatracker

The IETF Datatracker contains data about IETF documents, working groups, meetings, agendas, minutes, presentations, and more:

Understanding the Internet Engineering Task Force

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.).

See how IETF Working Groups operate

Featured Working Group

MBONE Deployment

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

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.

Learn more about RFCs

Featured RFC

Automatic Multicast Tunneling

This document describes Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT), a protocol for delivering multicast traffic from sources in a multicast-enabled network to receivers that lack multicast connectivity to t…

RFC 7450was: draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast

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
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity to enable objects to exchange data with the manufacturer, operator, and/or other connected devices.
New transport technology
The development of new transport technologies in the IETF provides capabilities that improve the ability of Internet applications to send data over the Internet.