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IETF 111 Online preliminary agenda posted

The preliminary agenda for the meeting on 26-30 July includes all planned working group, research group, and Birds of a Feather sessions, with the final agenda to be posted on 2 July.

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IETF 111 Online
IETF 111 starts Monday, 26 July and runs through Friday afternoon, 30 July. Sessions will run from 12:00-18:00 PDT (19:00-01:00 UTC) each day.
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IETF 112 Madrid
IETF 112 starts Saturday 06 November and runs through Friday afternoon, 12 November.
Madrid

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Starting Consultation on the IASA2 Retrospective
The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) is soliciting community feedback on the first draft of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA 2.0) retrospective. Our goal is to complete this process by October 2021 so that we can present a final report in November 2021 at IETF-112. This time frame provides significant opportunity for community input and revision of the assessment.
24 Jun 2021
IETF Administration LLC Completes 2020 Financial Review
The IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors had received a clean result for its 2020 stand-alone annual financial statement.
24 Jun 2021

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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:

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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.).

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Featured Working Group

QUIC

The QUIC working group will provide standards-track specifications for a UDP-based, stream-multiplexing, encrypted transport protocol, based on pre-standardization implementation and deployment exper…

quic quic@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.

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Featured RFC

QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport

This document defines the core of the QUIC transport protocol. QUIC provides applications with flow-controlled streams for structured communication, low-latency connection establishment, and network…

RFC 9000was: draft-ietf-quic-transport

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.