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IETF 99 Wrap Up

Suresh Krishnan
Internet Area Director

26 Jul 2017

IETF Internet Area Director Suresh Krishnan provides a brief wrap up from IETF 99.

More than 1200 participants gathered in Prague for IETF 99, and nearly 500 individuals registered for remote participation. The IETF Hackathon preceding IETF 99 informed work during the meeting, and gathered more than 200 people--the most ever. Noted highlights during IETF 99 included work on:

TLS 1.3
QUIC
YANG

There were also several working groups that covered various aspects of the Internet of Things.Â In addition, work during the IETF Code Sprint helped improve the tools used by IETF participants as they develop the standards themselves.Â The next IETF meeting, IETF 100, will be held in Singapore on 11-17 November 2017.

For all the details, watch Suresh's summary.

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IETF Internet Area Director Suresh Krishnan provides a brief wrap up from IETF 99.
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The Interoperability of Things: IoT Semantic Interoperability (IOTSI) Workshop 2016

The IETF is about interoperation. Yes, IETF participants like cleaner architecture, and more elegant solutions, and so on. But at bottom, both “rough consensus” and “running code” are all about making diverse things work together as much as possible.
- David Thaler
- IAB Member
- Andrew Sullivan
- IAB Chair
- 26 Mar 2016
Bienvenidos a Buenos Aires! (Welcome to Buenos Aires!)

It’s almost time to pack our bags and head south to Argentina. This is the IETF’s first ever meeting in Latin America!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 18 Mar 2016
YANG Data Models in the Industry: Current State of Affairs

Just before the IETF 95 in Buenos Aires, let’s analyze the current state of affairs in the YANG Data Models world.
- Benoit Claise
- Operations and Management Area Director
- 16 Mar 2016
Transition Plan Enters New Phase

Many of us have been working over the last two years on a small change to the way the IANA functions are managed.
- Andrew Sullivan
- IAB Chair
- 10 Mar 2016
New Research Groups at IETF-95

My previous blog post was about the IETF BoFs, but there are also new meetings in the research arm of the IETF, the IRTF.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 6 Mar 2016
BOFs for IETF-95

With the preliminary agenda just published (or soon will be), I wanted to report what Birds-of-Feather (BoF) sessions there will be at IETF-95. This time there is quite a lot of work following up on a recent IAB workshop on the effect of encryption on network operators.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 2 Mar 2016
IOTSI Workshop Position Papers

Some time ago I mentioned the Internet of Things Semantic Interoperability (IOTSI) workshop organised by the IAB. This workshop is important for the work on application data formats, semantic definitions, and interoperability in the Internet of Things space.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 2 Mar 2016
Non-Technical Trends Affecting the IETF

This blog post is not about technology. A while ago I asked for volunteers to help us understand some of the non-technical changes around the IETF.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 1 Mar 2016
New Working Groups for IETF-95?

Thinking of some new ideas that could be worked on by the IETF? This Friday, February 19th, 23:59 UTC is the deadline to submit proposals for what we call Bird-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions at IETF-95 in Buenos Aires.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 17 Feb 2016
An Interoperable Internet of Things

I cannot think of a better example where interoperability is important than the Internet of Things. Without interoperability, lights won’t work with the switches, sensor’s can’t be read by your smartphone, and devices cannot use the networks around them.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 14 Jan 2016
30 Years of Engineering the Internet

The IETF turns 30! As we work on the day-to-day tasks needed to make the Internet work better, or even as we look back over last year and gaze ahead to the year to come, from time-to-time it is useful to consider our work on timescales that are a bit larger.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 13 Jan 2016
Guidance on Face-to-Face and Virtual Interim Meetings

This statement published on 2016-01-11 provides IESG guidance on interim IETF working group meetings, both face-to-face and virtual.
- 11 Jan 2016
Year 2015 and Beyond

With the year closing, I wanted to make a post highlighting some of the events and hot topics of the year. And say a few words about the challenges that lie ahead.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 29 Dec 2015
IETF Diversity Update

It’s been a while since we’ve had a diversity related update and with the approval of the Anti-Harassment BCP and publication of the Independent Stream Editor (ISE) document, RFC7704 it seems timely.
- Kathleen Moriarty
- Security Area Director
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 4 Dec 2015
Yokohama Summary

Perhaps the topmost thing on my mind is how friendly and welcoming place Japan is for the IETF.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 10 Nov 2015
Internet Governance Forum

The Internet Governance Forum or IGF is an organisation that enables the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet. It is an open meeting for many different types of participants ranging from (some) technical community members to governments.
- 9 Nov 2015
Hacking

The Yokohama IETF Hackathon is now in progress!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 31 Oct 2015
Code Sprinting

The Yokohama Code Sprint is in progress! There are a few new code sprinters, and part our efforts has been in setting up development environments for them, as well as building a Docker image so that future setup will be easier.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 31 Oct 2015
Welcome to the Yokohama IETF (again!)

Welcome to IETF-94, and back to Yokohama! We were here in 2002, yet I remember it like yesterday. The impression left by the scenery, the Japanese friendliness, food, and many other things was lasting!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 30 Oct 2015
Visiting the W3C Meeting

Both the IETF and the W3C are meeting in Japan this month.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- Heather Flanagan
- Chair
- Barry Leiba
- Liaison Manager
- Karen O'Donoghue
- Chair
- 29 Oct 2015
Improving Security in the Internet: The Diffie-Hellman Case Study

A recent paper on shortcomings of Diffie-Hellman key exchange has received attention and raised questions about security on the Internet, as Diffie-Hellman is used for cryptographic handshakes in popular Internet protocols.
- Paul Wouters
- Chair
- Jari Arkko
- Tech Advisor
- 22 Oct 2015
Strange but familiar in Dublin

We’re both at ICANN 54 in Dublin, and of course a big topic is the IANA transition.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- Andrew Sullivan
- IAB Chair
- 21 Oct 2015
ICANN54

The ICANN 54 meeting is now starting in Dublin, Ireland. On the agenda are various topics around the IANA stewardship transition.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 17 Oct 2015
Codesprinting in Yokohama

横浜のIETFのためのプログラミング!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 8 Oct 2015
Impressions from the MaRNEW Workshop

Claims of encryption having a effect on network bandwidth optimisation methods have been coming thick and fast to the IETF since IETF89. To help understand the real use cases and issues the IAB organised the Managing Radio Networks in an Encrypted World (MaRNEW) Workshop working with the telecoms association, GSMA.
- Natasha Rooney
- MaRNEW Co-chair, GSMA
- 29 Sep 2015
1984

One of the things that can make surveillance too easy is when the technology we use has weaknesses.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 25 Sep 2015
Encryption and Network Management

MaRNEW This is a joint workshop between the IAB and the GSMA, and the focus will be on managing networks, particularly mobile ones, under the assumption that much of Internet traffic is or will be encrypted.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 24 Sep 2015
Experiment Ethics and Privacy

A key aspect of the IETF is running code, and we often apply our technology in our meetings, or run experiments to determine how well something works or gather information about networks.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 11 Sep 2015
.onion

The IETF community approved document using the Special-Use Domain Names registry established by RFC 6761 to register ‘.onion’ as a special-use name.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 10 Sep 2015
Aiming for a standardized, high-quality, royalty-free video codec to remove friction for video over the Internet

The NETVC working group aims to create a video codec that can be used in open-source software, in addition to proprietary software and hardware encoders.
- Adam Roach
- NETVC Working Group Co-chair
- 1 Sep 2015
IETF-93 Summary

Our meeting in Prague ended last Friday, and I wanted to thank everyone who participated! I hope you all have had an opportunity to return to home and rest after the trip.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 21 Aug 2015
IESG Statement on Maximizing Encrypted Access To IETF Information

The IETF has recognised that the act of accessing public information required for routine tasks can be privacy sensitive and can benefit from using a confidentiality service, such as is provided by TLS. [BCP188]
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 20 Aug 2015
The Full IANA Transition Proposal

The combined proposal from three communities has today gone out from the IANA Transition Coordination Group. This is important.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 31 Jul 2015
A Birthday at an IETF meeting

Today’s blog post is a story from Adam Roach that he had originally shared on social media.
- 20 Jul 2015
The Network and Meeting Rooms are Ready

The IETF meeting rooms and registration desk are ready for the meetings to start. A lot of activity is already going on on Saturday this time, but actual registration opens on Sunday at 1000 in the Congress Hall Foyer on the Lower Lobby level.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 18 Jul 2015
Welcome to Prague!

The IETF is once again in Prague! The city is clearly one of our favourites, given that we’ve been there also in 2007 and 2011.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 17 Jul 2015
Welcome to IETF 90!

The 90th IETF starts next Sunday in Toronto, Canada. Canada is one of our favourite places to meet at.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 17 Jul 2015
IANA Stewardship Transition Update from ICANN 53

I would like to update you on the IANA transition, including important events that took place at the 53rd ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 7 Jul 2015
Sudden Changes and IPv6 for Everyone

Earlier this week, I was sitting on a train ride through Finland. As usual, my iPad acted as a mobile broadband gateway, and I suddenly realized that my other devices were using IPv6 to reach the Internet through the gateway.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 5 Jul 2015
Buenos Aires, allá vamos!

What will our first meeting next year be like?
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 3 Jul 2015
Draft deadlines and exceptions

Before an IETF meeting, we sometimes receive a few requests to extend the deadlines related to Internet Draft submissions.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 2 Jul 2015
CARIS Workshop Summary and Reflection

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Society (ISOC) hosted day-long Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale (CARIS) workshop took place last Friday in coordination with the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) Conference in Berlin.
- 25 Jun 2015
IESG Statement on Internet Draft Authorship

The IESG has received some reports of IETF participants having been listed as document authors on drafts without their consent ("surprised authorship").
- 11 Jun 2015
New Ideas for IETF Education

Education and newcomer orientation activities have existed in the IETF in various forms from the early 1990s (if not earlier). As the IETF and the world around us evolves, we are now rethinking what types of activities are best suited for the future.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- Mirjam Kuehne
- EDU Team
- Nalini Elkins
- EDU and Mentoring Teams
- 8 Jun 2015
Code Sprint at IETF 93

We will once again have a Code Sprint in Prague prior to IETF-93.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 2 Jun 2015
New Ideas for IETF 93

This is a good time to submit more new proposals for the IETF!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 2 Jun 2015
IESG Retreat

An IETF meeting is a busy time for the Area Directors. We do not have much time for discussing IETF-wide topics or getting to know new team members. Every year we meet for a couple of days as a team, outside the IETF meeting.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 21 May 2015
From NetFlow to IPFIX via PSAMP: 13 years of Standardization Explained

The first flow-related BoF (birds of a feather) took place in London in summer 2001 during the IETF meeting 51.
- Benoit Claise
- Operations and Management Area Director
- 20 May 2015
IETF Hackathon

On the weekend before the IETF meeting in Prague (July 18-19), we will hold our second IETF Hackathon event at the Hilton Prague.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 17 May 2015
Internet organisations’ coordination meeting

This is a brief report from a meeting between a number of Internet organisations that took place last week in London.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 5 May 2015
Retreats 2015

Every year, IETF’s leadership groups (IAB, IESG, IAOC) meet for retreats. This year all the three groups meet in London.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 4 May 2015
End-to-End Message Encryption — Can it be done?

End-to-end (e2e) encryption for email is hard. We know this from OpenPGP and S/MIME efforts with the main problem being around obtaining, installing, and exchanging keys.
- Kathleen Moriarty
- Security Area Director
- 30 Apr 2015
Internet Security vs. Quantum Computing

One of the great scientific challenges of our time is the construction of a practical quantum computer.
- Russ Housley
- Chair
- Dr. David A. McGrew
- 22 Apr 2015
IANA Protocol Parameters Explained

You may have heard about the IANA transition, or to be more precise, about the transition of US government oversight relating to IANA. In March 2014, the US government announced their intent to relinquish their role to the multistakeholder Internet community.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 20 Apr 2015
Plurilingüe IETF

La semana pasada, al hablar de Internet abierta para un evento de Gobernanza en Moscú, Jari se reunió con gente del Capítulo Rusia de Internet Society.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- Alvaro Retana
- Routing Area Director
- 19 Apr 2015
New Datatracker UI

The upgrade to the datatracker UI mentioned in plenary at IETF 92 has just been released. This effort has been underway for more than a year.
- Robert Sparks
- Datatracker Project Manager
- 15 Apr 2015
Monikielinen IETF

Last week, while speaking about open Internet in Moscow for an Internet Governance event, Jari met with folks from the Internet Society Russia Chapter. They had recently made a translation of the IETF Journal to Russian!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- Alvaro Retana
- Routing Area Director
- 15 Apr 2015
RFC 1

April 7 marks the anniversary of the publication of the first RFC.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 7 Apr 2015
Thoughts from IETF 92

Thank you all for a wonderful meeting. I wanted to thank all the sponsors and participants, and our host Google for their support. And the wonderful social event. Well done, you all!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 30 Mar 2015
New Internet Engineering Steering Group and Internet Architecture Board Members Selected

Newly selected members of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Committee (IESG) met in person for the first time during the 92nd Internet Engineering Task Force Meeting this week in Dallas, Texas.
- 25 Mar 2015
Coordinating Incident Response at Internet Scale (CARIS)

Coordinating incident response at Internet scale as a concept sounds fabulous, but can we achieve it? What will it take?
- Kathleen Moriarty
- Security Area Director
- 21 Mar 2015
Behind the Scenes

First things first, the network for IETF-92 is up and works well! Both the meeting area and hotel room networks are operational.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 20 Mar 2015
10 Days to IETF 92

There is just 10 days until our next meeting begins, in Dallas, Texas. This is our third visit to Dallas
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 11 Mar 2015
IETF Tools and Dallas

We will once again have a Code Sprint, now in Dallas prior to IETF-92.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 10 Mar 2015
Ensuring Continuity of the IANA Registries

One question that often comes up regarding the IANA Stewardship transition is how to ensure that the IANA protocol parameter registries continue to serve the worldwide Internet community.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- Russ Housley
- IAB Chair
- 22 Feb 2015
HTTP/2 Approved

After more than two years of discussion, over 200 design issues, 17 drafts, and 30 implementations, the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications have now been approved by the IETF’s steering group for publication as standards-track RFCs.
- Mark Nottingham
- HTTPBIS Working Group Chair
- Barry Leiba
- Applications Area Director
- 18 Feb 2015
New Proposals for IETF 92

The deadline for submitting proposals for new working groups for IETF-92 is approaching fast.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 3 Feb 2015
SEMI Workshop

I’m on the train this morning after the two-day Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet (SEMI) workshop at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich.
- Russ Housley
- IAB Chair
- 3 Feb 2015
Like a DART: Moving rapidly from a need to a solution for WebRTC

In less than 9 months–representing just two IETF meeting cycles–the DiffServ Applied to Real-time Transports (DART) working group (WG) moved from a concept to Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) approval of the Internet Draft it was chartered to produce.
- Ben Campbell
- Chair
- David L. Black
- Tech Advisor
- 26 Jan 2015
IETF turns 29

The IETF traces its start back to a meeting that took place 29 years ago today, January 16th. Happy birthday, IETF!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 16 Jan 2015
Taking a Step towards IANA Transition

Protocol parameters such as port numbers are an integral part of technical specifications that the IETF produces and developers implement. Along with naming and numbering functions, protocol parameters are maintained through IANA.
- 8 Jan 2015
IETF IANA Transition Proposal Last Call

In March the US government announced their intent to move their role in overseeing the IANA system to the Internet community. Since the announcement, the communities impacted by IANA functions have been working hard to develop a transition proposal.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 28 Nov 2014
YANG Really Takes Off in the Industry

Just after the IETF 90 meeting last July, I posted this “YANG Takes Off in the Industry” blog.
- Benoit Claise
- Operations and Management Area Director
- 27 Nov 2014
IETF 91 Summary

Our meeting in Honolulu is over. How did it go? Let us know. In the following I have collected some of my own observations.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 21 Nov 2014
MAC Privacy

This week at IETF91 we carried out an experiment to randomize Wi-Fi MAC addresses of users to improve privacy.
- 15 Nov 2014
Exploring the IETF

New to the IETF, or exploring new topics for your work? I wanted to point people to the various introductory sessions and materials that we have about the IETF and Internet technology.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 9 Nov 2014
Welcome to IETF 91!

I wanted to welcome everyone to the 91st IETF meeting that is starting tomorrow, November 9th, here in Honolulu, Hawaii. I also wanted to welcome our remote attendees!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 8 Nov 2014
Getting Visas to an IETF Meeting

We wanted to let you know that a number of Chinese participants have had trouble for getting visas to this meeting.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- Chris Griffiths
- IAOC Chair
- Michael Richardson
- Nomcom Chair
- 8 Nov 2014
Networks in Paradise! (or It's Christmas for the NOC!)

The network for the IETF is a bit of a unique beast.
- Jim Martin
- 7 Nov 2014
Honolulu IETF Hot Topics

The IETF meeting in Honolulu starts a week from now.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 1 Nov 2014
IANA Stewardship Transition at ICANN 51

I thought it might be useful to provide a brief summary of some of the things that have happened in the past week related to the transition of the IANA Stewardship.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 23 Oct 2014
Hawaii BoF Proposals Due Soon

New IETF work begins often as a proposed new working group, through something called a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session.
- 22 Sep 2014
Hawaii Code Sprint

We will once again have a Code Sprint in Honolulu prior to IETF-91.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 19 Sep 2014
IANA Transition Update

The transition of NTIA’s stewardship of IANA has been discussed extensively. Just last week there was a meeting of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group or ICG.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 10 Sep 2014
Celebrating the Importance of OpenStand

The OpenStand approach to creating global standards has never been more relevant—or important—than it is today.
- Russ Housley
- IAB Chair
- 28 Aug 2014
Mailing Lists: What works, what doesn’t?

The IETF has had another lively discussion about mailing list usage in the ietf@ietf.org mailing list, followed by a long plenary debate on how to make it more useful to the community.
- Kathleen Moriarty
- Security Area Director
- 18 Aug 2014
YANG Takes Off in the Industry

In 2003, RFC 3535, “Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop” documented the outcomes of a dialog started between network operators and protocol developers to guide the IETFs focus on future work regarding network management.
- Benoit Claise
- Operations and Management Area Director
- 31 Jul 2014
IETF 90 Summary

IETF-90 is over and I wanted to provide a summary of what I saw in the meeting.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 29 Jul 2014
Robots are taking over the IETF

We have built a lot of support for remote attendance in the IETF, but this week I saw something new.
- 26 Jul 2014
Plan for IANA

On Thursday morning of the IETF 90 meeting, we had a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session called IANAPLAN: Planning for the IANA/NTIA Transition.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 25 Jul 2014
IESG Statement on Designating RFCs as Historic

RFC 2026 defines a "Historic" status for documents: A specification that has been superseded by a more recent specification or is for any other reason considered to be obsolete is assigned to the "Historic" level.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 20 Jul 2014
ICANN and Transition of NTIA’s Stewardship

Last week, I visited the ICANN50 meeting in London. The meeting was held at a location well known to us at the IETF – the Hilton London Metropole.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 2 Jul 2014
IETF 90 BoFs

For every IETF meeting, the steering group receives a number of proposals for new work. Not all new work in the IETF has to go through a public meeting to be accepted.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 17 Jun 2014
IETF 90 BoF Deadline Coming Up

New IETF work begins often as a proposed new working group, through something called a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 5 Jun 2014
Retreat and LACNIC

During an IETF meeting, the IESG and IAB members are busy with what is going on in our areas, and we have little time to talk to each other. But we organise yearly retreats where we get to talk to each other, and can tackle issues beyond the usual daily ones.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 22 May 2014
DISCUSS Criteria in IESG Review

This document describes the role of the 'DISCUSS' position in the IESG review process. It gives some guidance on when a DISCUSS should and should not be issued. It also discusses procedures for DISCUSS resolution.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 7 May 2014
NETmundial Summary

The NETmundial meeting was held last week in São Paulo, Brazil. I wanted to provide a brief report of my view of the meeting and its outcome.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 2 May 2014
IANA Changes Process

I have previously talked about the upcoming changes at IANA.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 1 May 2014
NETmundial

The two-day NETmundial conference that starts on Wednesday. Me, Russ, and several other IETFers are attending this event.
- 20 Apr 2014
New TLDs

The previous blog post talked about the IANA discussions at the ICANN meeting. But of course that was not the only topic that we talked about.
- 3 Apr 2014
IANA Changes

Two weeks ago there was an announcement from the US government regarding their role in managing IANA.
- 1 Apr 2014
Internet Technical Leaders Welcome IANA Globalization Progress

The leaders of the Internet technical organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet infrastructure (IETF, IAB, RIRs, ccTLD ROs, ICANN, ISOC, and W3C), welcome the US Government’s announcement of the suggested changes related to the IANA functions contract.
- 24 Mar 2014
IETF 89 Videos

I wanted to share two excellent videos in this post.
- 24 Mar 2014
Web Anniversary

Today I would like to celebrate the anniversaries of the World Wide Web (25 years) and W3C (20 years).
- 11 Mar 2014
IETF 89 Summary

With the IETF week over, I wanted to write a brief summary of the main discussions. And what a week! I spent ten days in London due to a workshop preceding the IETF and even some meetings that took place after the IETF.
- 10 Mar 2014
Writable MIB Module IESG Statement

The IESG is aware of discussions in the OPS area and in a number of working groups about the current practice for standards-based approaches to configuration.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 2 Mar 2014
Welcome to IETF 89!

The IETF-89 meeting is starting a week from now in London, UK. This is our second time in London. Our previous visit was IETF-51 in August 2001.
- 24 Feb 2014
Views on Internet Technology Adoption

The IETF’s relevance in the marketplace was the subject of a workshop held by the IAB in December in Cambridge UK on Internet Technology Adoption and Transition (ITAT).
- 9 Feb 2014
Celebrating Data Privacy Day

Today is International Data Privacy Day, and I wanted to let Alissa Cooper say a few words about how we are working on privacy topics at the IETF. - Jari Arkko, IETF Chair
- 28 Jan 2014
HTTP 2.0

I wanted to draw attention to Mark Nottingham’s excellent blog article about strengthening HTTP.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 9 Jan 2014
IANA

In this article I wanted to highlight an important but often hidden part in the IETF ecosystem: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 3 Jan 2014
2013 Review

The last days of the year seems like a good opportunity to reflect on some of things that happened during 2013.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 30 Dec 2013
We Will Strengthen the Internet

Wow what a week! Working with Internet technology often involves details deep inside the technology. But it seems that this week has been a perfect storm of highly visible and important technical developments:
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 8 Nov 2013
Les leaders en ingénierie décident de mettre à jour des normes afin d’améliorer la confidentialité et la sécurité sur Internet

L’IETF a suscité un large consensus pour l’amélioration de la sécurité des protocoles Internet en réponse à la surveillance omniprésente
- 7 Nov 2013
Destacados ingenieros coinciden en que hay que actualizar las normas para mejorar la seguridad y privacidad en Internet

Amplio consenso de la IETF por mejorar la seguridad de los protocolos de Internet en respuesta a la vigilancia generalizada
- 7 Nov 2013
Leading Engineers Agree to Upgrade Standards to Improve Internet Privacy and Security

IETF reaches broad consensus to improve the security of Internet protocols to respond to pervasive surveillance
- 7 Nov 2013
Strengthening the Internet

Reports about pervasive surveillance have been the big discussion topic in the Internet community in the last couple of months. Our commerce, business, and personal communications all depend on the Internet being secure and trusted, so the situation is disturbing.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- Stephen Farrell
- Security Area Director
- Sean Turner
- Security Area Director
- 6 Nov 2013
Piloting a University Outreach Programme

Many students were brought to IETF 87 by a pilot university outreach programme, run by ISOC with 15 universities in Germany and Austria.
- 4 Nov 2013
IETF Anti-Harassment Policy

This IESG statement explains that the IETF strives to create and maintain an environment in which people of many different backgrounds are treated with dignity, decency, and respect.
- 3 Nov 2013
Network is Up!

The IETF network for the meeting is up. Even the network in the hotel rooms switched to IETF network by mid-Friday. Everything is ready for the IETFers to come!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 2 Nov 2013
Welcome to IETF 88!

The IETF-88 meeting is starting next week in Vancouver. Vancouver is a long-time IETF favourite city, as this will be our fifth time there. And we were there just last year. Vancouver works well for the IETF, and I’m very happy to return again!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 30 Oct 2013
Huawei Hosts 88th Internet Engineering Task Force Meeting

More than 1200 top engineers and technologists will assemble to advance the development of open Internet standards
- 29 Oct 2013
Future Identifiers

When I visited the ICANN meeting last summer, they were about to launch a set of panels to advice themselves about strategic topics in coming years. Those panels are now operational.
- 29 Oct 2013
Plenary on Internet Hardening

As I mentioned in “Security and Pervasive Monitoring” article in September, the IETF community has expressed concerned about the large-scale monitoring of Internet traffic.
- 29 Oct 2013
Speeches

I visited the RIPE meeting and IGF meetings recently, and wanted to post two speeches that I held in these events.
- 22 Oct 2013
China

Last week I toured China, talking to the local IETF contributors. And there are so many! I talked to people from equipment vendors, operators, researcher institutions, and local standards organisations.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 19 Sep 2013
Security and Pervasive Monitoring

The Internet community and the IETF care deeply about how much we can trust commonly used Internet services and the protocols that these services use.
- 7 Sep 2013
Vancouver

It seems like yesterday when we were in Berlin, but I wanted to highlight that our Vancouver meeting is coming up soon.
- 3 Sep 2013
Meeting Summary

The IETF meeting in Berlin is now over. I hope everyone has been able to return home safely, and that you all can enjoy at least a weekend if not some vacation time after a busy meeting week.
- 7 Aug 2013
A Diverse IETF

I wanted to return to a topic that we have talked about before: increasing diversity at the IETF.
- 29 Jul 2013
The Role of Working Groups

A while ago I wrote about the issue of the IETF document process being quite heavy-weight in its final stages. Documents go through a lot of review and changes in their last few months. Some of this is natural as the document gains more exposure.
- 28 Jul 2013
A Different Internet

This week I’m visiting the ICANN meeting in Durban, South Africa. It has been an opportunity to meet many interesting people and get a glimpse of the issues that other important organisations in the Internet ecosystem deal with.
- 17 Jul 2013
The Web of Things

The Internet of Things is about embedding communications technology in all objects that can benefit from it, from cars to buildings, everyday objects and even materials. This is an ongoing revolution in the scope and scale of networking.
- 15 Jul 2013
Welcome to IETF-87!

In two weeks, we will have the IETF-87 meeting in Berlin! The previous time IETF was in Germany was in August 1997 in Munich – that was too long ago and it is a pleasure to be back!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 12 Jul 2013
Permissionless Innovation

I would like to talk about standards and what kind of approaches are suitable for developing them when it comes to Internet technology and applications.
- 13 May 2013
Balancing the Process

One of the most rewarding parts of my job is talking to various IETF contributors or people who rely on our results, and trying to understand their experiences about the IETF process and what kinds of technical topics they expect us to tackle. This article focuses on the process aspects.
- 1 May 2013
Diversity

Diversity has been a recent big discussion topic at the IETF. Many of us have participated in this discussion, but I also wanted to bring it up here in the blog.
- 17 Apr 2013
Bits-n-Bites on Video

I wanted to return to the topic of Bits-n-Bites which we briefly reported on already earlier. Dan York and Paul Brigner from ISOC shot a few videos of some of the interesting demos, and the videos are now available below.
- 9 Apr 2013
Bits-n-Bites at IETF 86

As we were preparing for the Orlando meeting, we talked about ways to make the Bits-N-Bites program more dynamic and provide a place for the IETF community to perform experimentation and get running code in a production like network setting.
- Chris Griffiths
- IETF Participant
- 17 Mar 2013
Internet Engineering Task Force and Internet Architecture Board Announce New Leadership Teams

IETF participants define the standards for the global network that connects more than 2 billion people
- 13 Mar 2013
Running Code at IETF 86

Our meeting in Orlando ended on Friday. I thought it was a very successful meeting, and brought up many new topics that we should pursue.
- 13 Mar 2013
Welcome to IETF 86!

I would like to welcome you all to Orlando, where the 86th IETF meeting starts on Sunday!
- 8 Mar 2013
IETF Challenges

The previous article talked about how exciting and important the work at the IETF is. And it is. But there are also challenges, both for the Internet as a whole and for us at the IETF.
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 2 Mar 2013
Chair's Blog

Welcome to a new publication from the IETF, a blog from the (incoming) IETF chair!
- Jari Arkko
- IETF Chair
- 22 Feb 2013
IESG Statement on Ethertypes

The IEEE Registration Authority (IEEE RA) assigns Ethertypes with oversight from the IEEE Registration Authority Committee (IEEE RAC).
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 25 Oct 2012
IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

Internet-Drafts (I-Ds) are working documents of the IETF. RFC 2026, BCP 9, describes the purpose of I-Ds, and it also provides some policies that govern the I-D Repository.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 25 Oct 2012
Leading Global Standards Organizations Endorse 'OpenStand' Principles that Drive Innovation and Borderless Commerce

IEEE, IAB, IETF, Internet Society and W3C Invite Other Standards Organizations, Governments and Companies to Support Modern Paradigm for Global, Open Standards
- 12 Aug 2012
IESG Statement on Designating RFCs as Historic

NOTE: This IESG Statement is superseded by the IESG Statement "IESG Statement on Designating RFCs as Historic" dated 20 July 2014.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 20 Oct 2011
IESG Statement on Designating RFCs as Historic

NOTE: This IESG Statement is superseded by the IESG Statement "IESG Statement on Designating RFCs as Historic" dated 20 July 2014.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 27 Jun 2011
IESG Statement on IESG Processing of RFC Errata concerning RFC Metadata

This IESG statement describes the manner in which the IESG will process RFC Errata concerning RFC Metadata [RFC5741].
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 13 Jun 2011
IESG Statement on Document Shepherds

This statement provides guidance from the IESG on selection of a Document Shepherd for documents from IETF working groups and documents from individuals.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 11 Oct 2010
IESG Statement on the Usage of Assignable Codepoints, Addresses and Names in Specification Examples

Protocol specifications and other documents intended for RFC publication often include useful examples with correctly formatted and syntactically valid codepoints, addresses or names.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 24 May 2010
IESG Statement on NomCom Eligibility and Day Passes

RFC 3777 requires that voting members of the nominating committee (NomCom) be selected from volunteers that have attended at least three of the last five IETF meetings.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 24 May 2010
IESG Statement on Copyright

This IESG Statement obsoletes all earlier IESG Statements regarding Copyright statements in MIB and PIB Modules.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 8 Sep 2009
IESG Statement on Proposed Status for IETF Documents Reserving Resources for Example Purposes

This IESG Statement deals with the proposed status for IETF documents reserving values, numbers, addresses, etc. for example purposes. In this statement we use the term 'resources' for these values, numbers, addresses, etc.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 20 Jan 2009
Guidance on Interim Meetings, Conference Calls and Jabber Sessions

This statement dated 2008-09-02 provides IESG guidance on interim IETF Working Group meetings, conference calls, and jabber sessions. NOTE: This statement is superseded by the IESG Statement "Guidance on Face-to-Face and Virtual Interim Meetings" dated 2016-01-11.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 2 Sep 2008
IESG Processing of RFC Errata for the IETF Stream

The [below] describes the manner in which the IESG will be processing RFC Errata for the IETF Stream. The current tools on the RFC Editor site support "approved" and "rejected", but they need to be updated to also permit "hold for document update" as errata states.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 30 Jul 2008
IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

The following principles apply to spam control on IETF mailing lists:
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 14 Apr 2008
IESG Statement on Registration Requests for URIs Containing Telephone Numbers

RFC4395: Guidelines and Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 3 Mar 2008
IESG Statement on RFC3406 and URN Namespaces Registry Review

RFC 3406: URN Namespace Definitions
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 27 Feb 2008
Advice for WG Chairs Dealing with Off-Topic Postings

Managing off-topic postings to IETF Working Group (WG) mail lists is challenging.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 23 Jan 2008
On Appeals of IESG and Area Director Actions and Decisions

The IESG re-affirms that its reading of RFC 2026 is that any action made by an Area Director or the IESG may be made the subject of the conflict resolution mechanisms set out in Section 6.5 of RFC 2026.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 4 Oct 2007
Experimental Specification of New Congestion Control Algorithms

This document describes the process that the IETF transport area directors employ when new congestion control algorithms that differ significantly from currently-published IETF standards are brought to the IETF for specification and publication as Experimental RFCs.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 5 Jul 2007
Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents

This statement discusses the process related to "individual submissions", publication of RFCs by finding a sponsoring Area Director to take it through IETF and Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) review. This statement covers both the the processing in the IESG as well as guidance on when such sponsoring is appropriate.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 20 Mar 2007
Last Call Guidance to the Community

Under RFC 2026, the IESG issues Last Calls to the IETF community for all draft Standards Track and BCP documents, and for selected draft Informational and Experimental documents.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 15 Jan 2007
IESG Statement: Normative and Informative References

Nearly all RFCs contain citations to other documents, and these are listed in a References section near the end of the RFC.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 19 Apr 2006
IESG Statement on Disruptive Posting

The IESG today makes the following statement, but will welcome community feedback on it.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 17 Feb 2006
Guidance for Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

NOTE: This IESG Statement is superseded by the IESG Statement "IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists" dated 14 April 2008.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 9 Jan 2006
IESG Statement on AUTH48 State

The IESG has decided that as of now, any IESG-approved drafts that enter the AUTH48 state, where the RFC Editor waits for final text approval from all listed authors, may be released on the responsible AD's authority if any authors have not responded after a reasonable time, typically two weeks.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 5 Jan 2006
Syntax for Format Definitions

The IESG does not prescribe the use of any single syntax for format definitions.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 12 May 2005
IESG Statement on IDN

IDNA [IDNA] specifies an encoding of characters in the Unicode character repertoire [UNICODE] which is backwards-compatible with the current definition of hostnames.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 11 Feb 2003
Copyright Statement in MIB and PIB Modules

NOTE: This IESG Statement is superseded by the IESG Statement "IESG Statement on Copyright" dated 8 September 2009.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 27 Nov 2002
Guidance for Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

NOTE: This IESG Statement is superseded by the IESG Statement "IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists" dated 14 April 2008.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 13 Mar 2002
On Design Teams

Design teams are mentioned in The Working Group Guidelines RFC (RFC 2418) as follows:
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 21 Dec 2001
Guidelines for the Use of Formal Languages in IETF Specifications

This temporary guideline has been prepared by the IESG in response to a specific case; it is intended that it be put into an internet-draft and progressed as an IETF consensus position.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 1 Oct 2001
Establishment of Temporary Sub-IP Area

NOTE: This statement formed the Sub-IP Area, and this Area has subsequently been closed.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 21 Mar 2001
Plans to Organize "Sub-IP" Technologies in the IETF

Two weeks ago I sent a message informing the community of some plans to improve the organization of some significant work going on in the IETF on "sub-ip" technologies.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 6 Dec 2000
A New IETF Work Area

Traditionally the IETF has focused its efforts "above the wire and below the application."
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 20 Nov 2000
Guidance on Interim IETF Working Group Meetings and Conference Calls

This is the IESG "Statement Guidance on Interim IETF Working Group Meetings and Conference Calls" dated 2000-08-29 . NOTE: This IESG Statement is superseded by the IESG Statement "Guidance on Interim Meetings, Conference Calls and Jabber Sessions" dated 2 September 2008.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 29 Aug 2000
IESG Guidance on the Moderation of IETF Working Group Mailing Lists

In some cases, it is necessary and appropriate to moderate IETF mailing lists.
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- 29 Aug 2000

How to Read an RFC

Researchers' first encounter with the IETF community: gaining insight into Internet standardization

Evolving the administrative arrangements supporting the IETF

My Experience as an IETF Newcomer

TLS 1.3

Highlights from IETF 102

Something for Everyone at IETF 102

Birds of a Feather at IETF 102

World IPv6 Launch - 6th Anniversary

IESG Retreat 2018

IASA2 Working Group Chartered

Remembering Bob Braden

IETF Hackathon in London

YANG Data Models in the Industry: Current State of Affairs (March 2018)

IETF 101 Highlights

Internet Architecture Board and Internet Engineering Steering Group Seat Members for 2018-2019

IETF Meeting Photography Policy

IETF 101 Preview

Consolidation

New Work at IETF 101

The Blind Men and the Elephant

Bangkok selected for IETF 103

NomCom 2017-2018: Announcement of NomCom selections

CoDel: Improved networking through adaptively managed router queues

IETF 101 BoF Deadline

Internet Governance Forum 2017

IETF Website Status Update

YANG Data Models in the Industry: Current State of Affairs (November 2017)

Participating in the IETF Hackathon from Mauritius

Highlights from IETF 100

YANG Catalog Latest Developments (IETF 100 Hackathon)

IETF 100 Preview

Privacy and Trustworthiness for Web Notifications

ENAME Workshop

New work at IETF 100

Vancouver selected for IETF 107

The New RFC Editor Website

Interim IETF Administrative Director hired!

Strengthening Internet Security and Accommodating Data Center Requirements: Finding a Path Forward

IETF 99 Wrap Up

IETF 99 Preview

Seeking community feedback on revamp of www.ietf.org

At Long Last, A Revised Patent Policy for IETF: What’s Behind BCP79bis?

5G and Internet Technology

What does “Internet Access” mean?

Working Together with 3GPP on 5G

New Work at Upcoming IETF 99 Meeting

Increasing capabilities of advanced automatic crash notifications

IETF Profile: Mirja Kühlewind

IESG Retreat

Routing Area Update after IETF 98

Looking Ahead, Facing Change

Internet Architecture Board and Internet Engineering Steering Group Seat Members for 2017-2018

YANG Catalog Latest Development (IETF 98 Hackathon)

Highlights from IETF 98

IETF Profile: Jari Arkko

IETF Profile: Alissa Cooper

IETF-98 Highlights

University Students Create Running Code for the Internet

Observations on the CIA Revelations

Reviewing and Assessing the IETF Administrative Support Activity

License File for Open Source Repositories

New IESG

Barriers to Entry

A New RFC Archive

IETF Hackathon in Chicago

Call for Tools Volunteers and Contractors

New Ideas for IETF-98?

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2016

Reflections from IETF 97

Reflections on the Routing Area after IETF 97

IESG and Chair Report, IETF-97

YANG Quick Status Update Before this IETF 97

Support Documents in IETF Working Groups

Welcome to IETF-97!

Proposed Project: IETF Administrative Support 2.0

Attacks Against the Architecture

New Work in Seoul

IANA Stewardship and Transition Goes Ahead

Working with the IEEE 802