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.
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.
Let's start with technical and big-Internet affecting issues. When I talked with the steering group about the events of the year, these came up:
But there were also more internally oriented events for the IETF. For me the big thing was focusing more on open source and bringing back the running code aspect to the IETF. Our Hackathon events have now seen their first year, and grown to a successful ~100 person event. We are looking forward to the second year, and the next event will be April 2-3, just before IETF-95 in Buenos Aires [15].
We also re-organised the IETF areas, creating the new Applications and Real-time area (ART), and helping the steering group organise its work in a flexible manner on current topics [16].
We also saw development and increased usage of remote attendance facilities through Meetecho and other systems. Did you know that all 2015 IETF sessions are on YouTube [16]?
Here are some of the challenges that we saw coming up:
What other challenges do we face in the Internet, and are there proposals that you would like to see taken forward to solve them? Let us know on ietf@ietf.org.
Inside the IETF, one of the key issues continues to be that we remain the most useful place for today’s Internet technologists to work with each other. I’m happy about our reach into more open source folks, our meetings and ISOC programs reaching out to different groups and different regions, but that is only the start. What can we do to make the IETF a better place for you to develop standards that you need?
With this, I want to thank everyone who has participated in IETF projects and wish you happy holidays. We have more work to do, but we should be happy about the things we’ve achieved in 2015. See you next year!
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.
Perhaps the topmost thing on my mind is how friendly and welcoming place Japan is for the IETF.
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.
The Yokohama IETF Hackathon is now in progress!
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.
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