The IETF has a limited number of liaison relationships with other organizations. Liaisons are appointed by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) when the IAB feels that conditions warrant appointing a specific person to such a task.
Establishing a liaison relationship can provide the framework for ongoing communications to:
Note that such appointments are rare as the best way for organizations to work with the IETF is to do so within the working groups. The primary contact on liaison negotiation is the IAB.
For more information about the procedures that govern IETF liaisons, please see RFC 4052 “IAB Liaison Management” and RFC 4053 (BCP 103) “Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and from the IETF.”
A list of liaison statements is available on the IETF Datatracker.
To submit a liaison statement:
The list of current liaisons appears below:
SDO | IETF Liaison Manager | IAB Liaison Shepherd | More Info |
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3GPP | Gonzalo Camarillo | Jeff Tantsura | RFC 3113 |
Broadband Forum | David Sinicrope | Brian Trammell | |
CableLabs | Jason Weil | Brian Trammell | RFC 4965 |
Community Coordination Group | Russ Housley, Barry Leiba, Tim Wicinski | Ted Hardie | |
ECMA TC39 | Matt Miller | Martin Thomson | |
ICANN Board of Directors | Harald Alvestrand | Wes Hardaker | RFC 2691 |
ICANN NomCom | Peter Koch | Ted Hardie | |
ICANN RSSAC | Daniel Migault | Ted Hardie | IAB liaison to ICANN Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) |
ICANN RZERC | Jim Reid | Ted Hardie | |
ICANN TLG | Warren Kumari, Tim Wicinski | Ted Hardie | RFC 2691 |
IEEE 802.1 | Eric Gray | Erik Nordmark | RFC 7241 |
IEEE-SA | Russ Housley | Erik Nordmark | |
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC2 | Patrik Fältström | Ted Hardie | RFC 3718, Section 7 |
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 | Stephan Wenger | Ted Hardie | |
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC6 | Allison Mankin | Ted Hardie | |
ISO/TC46 | John Klensin | Alissa Cooper | |
ISO/TC204 | Alexandre Petrescu | Erik Nordmark | |
ITU-T | Scott Mansfield | Mark Nottingham | RFC 6756 |
ITU-T SG15 (optical control plane) | John Drake | Jeff Tantsura | |
Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) | Barry Leiba | Stephen Farrell | |
Multi Stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardisation | Mat Ford, Andrei Robachevsky | Jari Arkko | |
Unicode | Patrik Fältström | Martin Thomson | RFC 3718 |
W3C | Mark Nottingham | Martin Thomson |