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While it may not be well-known outside of technical circles, bufferbloat is a problem that affects everyone who uses the Internet.

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  • Banishing the bane of bufferbloat 

    Bufferbloat affects everyone who uses the Internet, resulting in frustratingly slow web browsing, laggy video calls, and overall poor quality of experience for Internet users and there's a lot of work underway in the IETF to address it.

    23 May 2023
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    IETF 116 Yokohama was held 25-31 March 2023 and the results of the post-meeting survey are now available on a web-based interactive dashboard.

    26 Apr 2023
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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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Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks in the Internet. This document describes NTP version 4 (NTPv4), which is backwards compatible with NTP version 3 (NTPv3)…

RFC 5905was: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ntp-ntpv4-proto/

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