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Catch up on IETF 124
More than 1000 leading Internet technologists gathered 1-7 November for an IETF Hackathon, 100+ working sessions, and more in Montreal and online.
Upcoming events
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IETF 125 Shenzhen
IETF 125 starts Saturday 14 March and runs through Friday afternoon, 20 March.
Shenzhen, China -
IETF 126 Vienna
IETF 126 starts Saturday 18 July and runs through Friday afternoon, 24 July.
Vienna, Austria
What's new?
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Enabling Publishers to Express Preferences for AI Crawlers: An Update on the AIPREF Working Group
In January, the IETF chartered the AI Preferences (AIPREF) Working Group to make it easier to express how AI models should use Internet content. By June, the WG seemed on track towards its goal to deliver specifications by September. However, after extensive discussion and collaboration at an interim meeting earlier this month, a proposal for a new approach is under consideration.
30 Oct 2025 -
YANG Module Versioning and Semver: Importance and impact on Internet-Draft Authors
YANG enables comprehensive network automation by providing a standardized way to model the configuration and state data of network elements. The NETMOD Working Group is getting ready to publish the long-awaited updated versioning scheme for YANG modules published by IETF. These changes will impact current authors of Internet-Drafts (I-Ds) that contain a YANG module.
28 Oct 2025
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Next IETF Meeting
Stay tuned for the latest information on the next IETF meeting scheduled for 14-20 March 2026
Visit the IETF 125 Shenzhen meeting webpage