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Read how a presentation at the IETF114 meeting MBONED working group session turned into an introduction to "an incredible community"
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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 2022Suggested IETF 114 Sessions for Getting Familiar with New Topics
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 or long-time participants.
19 Jul 2022
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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.orgRequest for Comments (RFCs)
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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-multicastTopics 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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New transport technology
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