http://www.ietf.org/blog/en-gbFri, 07 Jul 2023 19:02:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf117-new-topics/These IETF 117 meeting sessions are likely to include discussions and proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time participants.Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:02:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf117-new-topics/http://www.ietf.org/blog/bpf/The new BPF Working Group is beginning work to document the state of the ecosystem and extensions for this technology that has origins in the Linux kernel and is increasingly being used beyond Linux.David Vernet, Suresh KrishnanWed, 05 Jul 2023 13:38:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/bpf/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-and-iesg-retreat-2023/The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and Internet Architecture Board (IAB) held their annual retreat in Seattle on 8-12 May, with two days for each group and a joint day in the middle.Mirja KühlewindThu, 29 Jun 2023 15:45:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-and-iesg-retreat-2023/http://www.ietf.org/blog/supporting-running-code/The IETF’s “running code” mantra is a distinguishing characteristic of how the IETF works, which is why Ericsson has made a three year commitment to supporting events like the IETF Hackathon.Gonzalo CamarilloWed, 21 Jun 2023 13:52:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/supporting-running-code/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-highlights/While the IETF 116 meeting in Yokohama is already a few weeks back, I would still like to take the opportunity to report on a few highlights and some of my personal impressions.Mirja KühlewindWed, 07 Jun 2023 14:32:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-highlights/http://www.ietf.org/blog/banishing-bufferbloat/Bufferbloat: It's a term that may not be well-known outside of technical circles, but it's a problem that affects everyone who uses the Internet. Bufferbloat refers to the excessive buffering of data packets in network routers and switches, which leads to increased latency. This results in frustratingly slow web browsing, laggy video calls, and overall poor quality of experience for Internet users.Bjørn Ivar TeigenTue, 23 May 2023 22:39:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/banishing-bufferbloat/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-116-post-meeting-survey/IETF 116 Yokohama was held 25-31 March 2023Jay DaleyWed, 26 Apr 2023 13:23:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-116-post-meeting-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-catchup/Recordings are now available for sessions held during the IETF 116 meeting and the IETF Hackathon, where more than 1700 participants gathered in Yokohama and online 25-31 March 2023.Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:41:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-catchup/http://www.ietf.org/blog/reducing-ietf-meeting-scheduling-conflicts/With many IETF participants active across a number of active working groups and limited time slots in an IETF meeting week, we aim to arrange sessions in the agenda to minimize conflicts that prevent participants from joining sessions that are of interest to them. In each post-meeting survey we ask meeting participants to comment on the scheduling conflicts they experienced in the meeting agenda and we then use this information to improve the meeting agenda.Alexa MorrisSat, 01 Apr 2023 02:49:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/reducing-ietf-meeting-scheduling-conflicts/http://www.ietf.org/blog/mls-secure-and-usable-end-to-end-encryption/The IETF has approved publication of Messaging Layer Security (MLS), a new standard for end-to-end security that will make it easy for apps to provide the highest level of security to their users. End-to-end encryption is an increasingly important security feature in Internet applications. It keeps users’ information safe even if the cloud service they’re using has been breached.Nick Sullivan, Sean TurnerWed, 29 Mar 2023 21:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/mls-secure-and-usable-end-to-end-encryption/http://www.ietf.org/blog/towards-a-net-zero-ietf-next-steps/Built with input from the IETF community, we now have an initial approach and tools for calculating the IETF’s carbon footprint and a strategy for carbon offsetting. For 2023, we will implement this approach with data already available and seek to further improve it for future years.Greg WoodWed, 22 Mar 2023 00:26:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/towards-a-net-zero-ietf-next-steps/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2023-budget/The IETF Administration LLC has finalised its 2023 budget following a community consultation.Jay DaleyMon, 20 Mar 2023 19:05:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2023-budget/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-statement-on-remote-meeting-participation/A statement of principles regarding remote participation in IETF MeetingsJason LivingoodFri, 10 Mar 2023 13:01:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-statement-on-remote-meeting-participation/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2022/Want to catch up on IETF activity in 2022? The IETF Snapshot provides a short summary of IETF activity for the previous year.Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:38:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2022/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-new-topics/These IETF 116 meeting sessions are likely to include discussions and proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time participants.Tue, 07 Mar 2023 13:45:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-new-topics/http://www.ietf.org/blog/pquip/As research organizations and tech companies embrace quantum computing, many cybersecurity experts have worried that the upcoming super-powerful machines will be able to crack current encryption methods within minutes, exposing people to surveillance or cybercrime.Grant GrossThu, 23 Feb 2023 22:44:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/pquip/http://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-announcement-2023/Members of the incoming Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the IETF Trust, the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) Board of Directors, and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)—which provides leadership for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)—have been officially announced, with new members selected by the 2022-2023 IETF Nominating Committee.Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:31:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-announcement-2023/http://www.ietf.org/blog/informing-the-community-on-third-party-correspondence-regarding-the-w3c/In accordance with our policy of transparency, this blog post aims to keep the community informed about recent correspondence we have received and replied to.Lars EggertWed, 08 Feb 2023 13:57:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/informing-the-community-on-third-party-correspondence-regarding-the-w3c/http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrp-2023/Six network researchers have received Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP), an award focused on recent results in applied networking research and on interesting new research of potential relevance to the Internet standards community. The award focuses on cases where the researchers or ideas might not otherwise get heavy exposure for their work.Grant GrossMon, 09 Jan 2023 23:50:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrp-2023/http://www.ietf.org/blog/irtf-travel-grants/Sergio Aguilar Romero and Martine Sophie Lenders, both Ph.D. students in technology fields, attended and participated in the IETF 115 meeting in London with assistance through travel grants from the Internet Research Task Force.Grant GrossSat, 07 Jan 2023 01:01:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/irtf-travel-grants/http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-e-impact-workshop/The IAB ran an online workshop in December 2022 to begin to explore and understand the environmental impacts of the Internet. The discussion was active, and it will take time to summarise and produce the workshop report – but the topic is important, so we wanted to share some early impressions of the outcomes.Jari Arkko, Colin PerkinsFri, 06 Jan 2023 15:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-e-impact-workshop/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-bof-proposals/Birds of a Feather sessions (BOFs) are initial discussions about a particular topic of interest to the IETF community.Lars EggertWed, 21 Dec 2022 16:29:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-bof-proposals/http://www.ietf.org/blog/launch-of-ietf-community-survey-2022/The 2022 IETF Community Survey is live! Respond by 23 January 2023.Jay DaleyTue, 20 Dec 2022 16:47:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/launch-of-ietf-community-survey-2022/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-endowment-gift-today/At IETF, the Internet standards built today enable the Internet of tomorrow. The work of the IETF benefits from everyone who contributes time and talent. Right now, you can also support the future of the IETF through a gift to the IETF Endowment, and your gift will be matched 2x by the Internet Society.Lee-Berkeley ShawWed, 14 Dec 2022 21:47:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-endowment-gift-today/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-hackathon/The IETF 115 Hackathon was held 5-6 November in London. 350 people registered to participate onsite and more than 100 more registered to participate remotely to work on 39 projects across essentially all areas of IETF work, marking a return to pre-pandemic levels of participation.Charles EckelTue, 13 Dec 2022 16:46:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-hackathon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-new-connections/Last month, I had the opportunity to attend my first IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) meeting, IETF 115, which was held in London. It was a great experience and I was able to learn a lot from the many network specialists in attendance.Momoka YamamotoTue, 06 Dec 2022 16:47:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-new-connections/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-e-impacts-workshop/This week the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) holds the E-Impact workshop on the environmental impact of Internet applications and systems. This impact is of course complex, since the Internet has both environmental costs and environmental benefits. The workshop will consider if there is something that we as technologists, and standards makers, can do to reduce these costs or increase the benefits.Jari Arkko, Lars Eggert, Colin PerkinsMon, 05 Dec 2022 17:05:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-e-impacts-workshop/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-116-yokohama-registration-now-open/Registration is now open for IETF 116 YokohamaJay DaleyThu, 24 Nov 2022 12:30:34 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-116-yokohama-registration-now-open/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-115-post-meeting-survey/IETF 115 London was held 5-11 November 2022Jay DaleyTue, 22 Nov 2022 13:49:59 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-115-post-meeting-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-catchup/Recordings are now available for sessions held during the IETF 115 meeting and the IETF Hackathon, where more than 1500 participants gathered in London and online 5-11 November 2022.Sun, 13 Nov 2022 18:41:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-catchup/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-researcher-opportunties/The upcoming IETF 115 meeting in London on 5-11 November 2022 is a unique opportunity for networking researchers to learn how RFCs are written, to engage with the Internet standards community to begin to develop research impact, and to meet more than 1,000 leading technologists from around the world currently working in industry, academia, and other organizations.Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:28:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-researcher-opportunties/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-new-topics/These IETF 115 meeting sessions are likely to include discussions and proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time participants.Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:20:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-new-topics/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ntp-update/The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a foundational Internet standard that has provided clock synchronization between computer systems since the early 1980s. It was first standardized as RFC 958 in Sept 1984 with several revisions in the following years. Discussions have been ongoing in the NTP working group for a few years now about updating NTPv4 to NTPv5. This update is motivated by lessons learned, ongoing vulnerabilities, and emerging use cases.Karen O'Donoghue, Dieter SieboldFri, 30 Sep 2022 11:11:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ntp-update/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-aid-workshop-report/The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has published the official report from the workshop on Analyzing IETF Data (AID) 2021.Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:11:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-aid-workshop-report/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-irtfopen/The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) open session at the IETF 115 meeting will feature presentations on research into domain hijacking, the IETF's organizational culture, and DDoS attack detection and mitigation.Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:16:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf115-irtfopen/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf114-childcare/Thanks to the generous support of IETF Diversity and Inclusion sponsors, onsite childcare at an IETF meeting was provided for the first time ever during IETF 114. The successful experience and continued support of sponsors means it will again be offered at the IETF 115 meeting on 5-11 November 2022.Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:26:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf114-childcare/http://www.ietf.org/blog/annual-report-2021/The IETF Annual Report 2021 provides a summary of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), and RFC Editor community activities from last year.Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:03:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/annual-report-2021/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf114-hackathon/IETF 114 was held 23-29 July in Philadelphia. As was typical prior to the pandemic, a Hackathon over the weekend served as a great start to the IETF meeting.Charles EckelThu, 08 Sep 2022 17:48:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf114-hackathon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/follow-up-to-consultation-on-covid-management-for-ietf-115/In early August 2022, the IESG and IETF Administration LLC asked the community for feedback on a proposed COVID management policy for IETF 115.Jay DaleyWed, 07 Sep 2022 11:10:58 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/follow-up-to-consultation-on-covid-management-for-ietf-115/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-114-philadelphia-covid-mitigation-analysis/An in-depth paper on COVID mitigation at IETF 114 Philadelphia.Jason Livingood, Jay Daley, Alexa MorrisTue, 06 Sep 2022 14:12:09 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-114-philadelphia-covid-mitigation-analysis/http://www.ietf.org/blog/rsce-appointment/Alexis Rossi has been appointed as the RFC Series Consulting Editor (RSCE). As RSCE, she will provide expert advice on the processes and policies for the RFC Series, which is made up of documents from the Internet’s principal technical development and standards-setting bodies.Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/rsce-appointment/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-114-post-meeting-survey/The results from our IETF 114 post-meeting survey are now available.Jay DaleyThu, 18 Aug 2022 13:57:55 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-114-post-meeting-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/presenting-at-my-first-ietf-meeting/Walking up to the check-in desk at IETF 114 was a very strange experience for me. You see, only about a month prior, I had walked across the stage to graduate from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and I was concerned that I didn’t fit the profile of a standard IETF attendee. However, over the course of the three days that I was there, I came to learn that there is no such thing as a “typical” IETF contributor and ended up having a great newcomers experience.Lauren DelwicheMon, 15 Aug 2022 16:26:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/presenting-at-my-first-ietf-meeting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf114-new-topics/This list of sessions at the IETF 114 meeting are likely to include discussions and new proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time participants.Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf114-new-topics/http://www.ietf.org/blog/value-of-in-person-collaboration/As the world slowly recovers from COVID-19, in-person meetings at IETF and other organizations are coming back.Grant GrossFri, 15 Jul 2022 14:08:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/value-of-in-person-collaboration/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-rfc-editor-model/The new RFC Editor Model is intended to provide greater transparency, improved responsiveness to the needs of the community, and increased clarity regarding the roles and responsibilities of the groups and individuals involved.Peter Saint-AndreThu, 30 Jun 2022 13:02:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-rfc-editor-model/http://www.ietf.org/blog/http-updates/The IETF has been busy working on updates to the specifications that make up HTTP, one of the most widely used protocols on the Internet, and documenting them in several RFCs published this month.Grant GrossFri, 24 Jun 2022 00:29:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/http-updates/http://www.ietf.org/blog/finalizing-ietf-tools-transition/The final stage of transitioning services from tools.ietf.org will take place over the next few weeks. New services are in place, and some older services will disappear. Several measures are planned to ensure these final steps proceed smoothly.Robert SparksFri, 17 Jun 2022 15:46:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/finalizing-ietf-tools-transition/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-llc-board-retreat-update/The Internet Architecture Board, Internet Engineering Steering Group, and IETF Administration LLC Board convened for the first joint retreat in San Francisco from May 17 to 20, 2022, generously hosted by Google at one of their offices.Mirja KühlewindWed, 15 Jun 2022 17:50:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-llc-board-retreat-update/http://www.ietf.org/blog/towards-a-net-zero-ietf/Introducing a new project to measure and potentially offset IETF carbon emissions.Jay DaleyFri, 06 May 2022 14:06:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/towards-a-net-zero-ietf/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-113-post-meeting-survey/The results from our IETF 113 post-meeting survey are now available.Jay DaleyMon, 02 May 2022 20:43:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-113-post-meeting-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-hackathon/The IETF 113 Hackathon held 19-20 March 2022 in Vienna and online marked the return to in-person collaboration on running code related to Internet standards.Charles EckelTue, 19 Apr 2022 13:20:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-hackathon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-tools-updates/Two updates in the coming weeks will significantly revise the look of the IETF Datatracker and, after a short outage on 25 April 2022, upgrade the hardware for most IETF services.Robert SparksWed, 13 Apr 2022 10:38:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-tools-updates/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ise-eliot-lear/Eliot Lear, a long-time Internet Engineering Task Force participant and engineer for Cisco Systems, was recently appointed independent submissions editor by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).Grant GrossThu, 31 Mar 2022 17:16:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ise-eliot-lear/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-new-participants/This list of sessions at the IETF 113 meeting are likely to include discussions and new proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time participants.Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:56:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-new-participants/http://www.ietf.org/blog/authorsietforg-new-resource-site-for-authors-of-internet-drafts/The new central resource site for authors of Internet-Drafts (I-Ds), authors.ietf.org, is now in production.Jay DaleyThu, 10 Mar 2022 00:43:29 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/authorsietforg-new-resource-site-for-authors-of-internet-drafts/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-irtfopen/The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) open session at the IETF 113 meeting will feature presentations on research into events that could cause large-scale Internet outages and potential biases in networking algorithm tests.Grant GrossWed, 09 Mar 2022 21:50:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-irtfopen/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-systers-iwd/The IETF Systers Program offers women participants the opportunity to network with each other and “gain support by networking, sharing advice and experiences, and collaborating on various projects.”Grant GrossTue, 08 Mar 2022 16:07:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-systers-iwd/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-venue-visit-report/In anticipation of the IETF’s first hybrid meeting on 19-25 March, a small group from the IETF Secretariat and NOC team traveled to Vienna last week to meet with the meeting venue staff and work through our standard checklists as well as some new challenges.Stephanie McCammonThu, 10 Feb 2022 22:13:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-venue-visit-report/http://www.ietf.org/blog/rfc-editor-model-update-comment/The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is requesting comment on an update to the model for organizing the RFC Editor function.Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:07:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/rfc-editor-model-update-comment/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-plenary-experiment-evaluation/For the IETF 112 meeting, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) conducted an experiment by holding the plenary on the Wednesday before other IETF sessions occurred, in order to reduce session conflicts during the week.Fri, 04 Feb 2022 19:09:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-plenary-experiment-evaluation/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2022-budget/The IETF Administration LLC has finalised its 2022 budget following a community consultation.Jay DaleyWed, 02 Feb 2022 02:38:25 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2022-budget/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-registration-open/I am pleased to announce that registration is now open for IETF 113 and the preceding IETF Hackathon.Jay DaleyThu, 27 Jan 2022 14:46:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf113-registration-open/http://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-announcement-2022/Members of the incoming Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the IETF Trust, the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) Board of Directors, and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)—which provides leadership for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)—have been officially announced, with new members selected by the 2021-2022 IETF Nominating Committee.Gabriel MontenegroMon, 24 Jan 2022 13:23:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-announcement-2022/http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-analyzing-ietf-data-workshop/This workshop held online from 29 November to 2 December 2021 aimed to create more insight in what IETF data is available, what methods exist to analyze it, and what that data could explain to IETF leadership, participants, and researchers.Niels ten OeverFri, 17 Dec 2021 15:51:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-analyzing-ietf-data-workshop/http://www.ietf.org/blog/support-ietf-work-2021/The end-of-year is, for many, a season of charitable giving. As you weigh your giving options this season, the IETF Endowment is an option worthy of consideration.Lee-Berkeley ShawMon, 13 Dec 2021 15:55:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/support-ietf-work-2021/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-112-post-meeting-survey/The results from our IETF 112 post-meeting survey are now available.Jay DaleyMon, 13 Dec 2021 03:00:56 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-112-post-meeting-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-360degree-feedback-experiment/The intent of this experiment is to give Area Directors (ADs) direct feedback allowing them to develop their method of working and behaviors.Lars EggertMon, 29 Nov 2021 15:32:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-360degree-feedback-experiment/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-hackathon/The IETF 112 Hackathon held 1 - 5 November 2021 was the 5th online-only IETF Hackathon. Our planning and procedures have improved with each iteration, as have the supporting tools and infrastructure, and the skill with which we use them.Charles EckelMon, 22 Nov 2021 15:19:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-hackathon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-measuring-network-quality-for-end-users-workshop/An Internet Architecture Board (IAB) workshop in September 2021 focused on understanding and improving the end-user experience on the Internet.Grant GrossWed, 10 Nov 2021 16:59:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-measuring-network-quality-for-end-users-workshop/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietfendowment-lacnic-commitment/The Internet registry for Latin America and the Caribbean announces contribution to the IETF Endowment.Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:09:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietfendowment-lacnic-commitment/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-new-participants/This list of sessions at the IETF 112 meeting are likely to include discussions and new proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists.Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:08:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-new-participants/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-retrospective-conclusion/The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) has now completed the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA 2.0) retrospective. The report was developed with community input and review and is now available online.Jason LivingoodMon, 01 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-retrospective-conclusion/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-2022-draft-budget/The IETF Administration LLC has prepared its draft budget for 2022 and now seeks community feedback.Jay DaleyMon, 01 Nov 2021 03:28:14 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-2022-draft-budget/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-anrp-presentations/The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) open session at the IETF 112 online meeting will feature presentations on research into routing protocols, the effects of third-party service dependencies, and censorship on the Internet. IETF 112 is scheduled for November 8 to 12.Grant GrossWed, 27 Oct 2021 14:50:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf112-anrp-presentations/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-board-fresh-perspectives/Two members of the IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors bring deep expertise and experience from outside the realm of developing technical standards, providing perspectives about the factors and priorities important to advancing the community’s work and IETF mission more broadly.Grant GrossMon, 27 Sep 2021 13:28:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-board-fresh-perspectives/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf111-hackathon/The IETF 111 Hackathon was held July 19-23, 2021. This was the 19th IETF Hackathon, and the 4th held as an online only event.Charles EckelWed, 08 Sep 2021 21:32:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf111-hackathon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-111-post-meeting-survey/The results from our IETF 111 post-meeting survey are now available.Jay DaleyMon, 23 Aug 2021 01:58:03 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-111-post-meeting-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-community-survey-2021/In May of this year the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) on behalf of the IESG and in collaboration with the IAB distributed the first annual IETF community survey to all 56,000 addresses subscribed to IETF mailing lists. Its purpose was "To help better understand our community and its makeup, gather views on the IETF and how well it works for participants, and gain insight into how we compare to similar organisations".Jay DaleyWed, 11 Aug 2021 17:52:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-community-survey-2021/http://www.ietf.org/blog/first-fully-online-iab-workshop/The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) held its first fully-online workshop during the first week of November 2020, just before the IETF 109 meeting, to discuss the network impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.Mirja KühlewindFri, 23 Jul 2021 15:58:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/first-fully-online-iab-workshop/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf111-anrp-presentations/Presentations on research into network specification and verification and on low-latency video streaming will be featured during the Internet Research Task Force Open session of the IETF 111 Online meeting scheduled for 26-30 July.Thu, 22 Jul 2021 01:06:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf111-anrp-presentations/http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrw2021/The 2021 Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) provides a forum for researchers, vendors, network operators, and the Internet standards community to present and discuss emerging results in applied networking research, with a special emphasis on tools, datasets, and other artifacts accompanying related research papers.Nick Feamster, Andra Elena LutuThu, 15 Jul 2021 13:57:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrw2021/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf111-bofs/The IETF 111 meeting (26-30 July 2021) will feature 5 Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions, which are often early steps toward new work in the IETF, covering a range of topics.Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:27:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf111-bofs/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-retrospective-consultation-starts/The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) is soliciting community feedback on the first draft of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA 2.0) retrospective. Our goal is to complete this process by October 2021 so that we can present a final report in November 2021 at IETF 112. This time frame provides significant opportunity for community input and revision of the assessment.Jason LivingoodThu, 24 Jun 2021 19:57:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-retrospective-consultation-starts/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-2020-financial-review/The IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors has received a clean result for its 2020 stand-alone annual financial statement.Sean TurnerThu, 24 Jun 2021 14:44:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-2020-financial-review/http://www.ietf.org/blog/public-side-meetings/The feedback provided in post-meeting surveys frequently references the public side meetings that are held during or alongside IETF meetings. Some feedback is about how those meetings are run, while other feedback is about the level of IETF support for side meetings.Lars EggertMon, 21 Jun 2021 20:29:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/public-side-meetings/http://www.ietf.org/blog/quicwg-more-security-internet-traffic/Lucas Pardue serves as co-chair of the IETF QUIC Working Group, which focuses on a standards-track specification for a UDP-based, stream-multiplexing, encrypted transport protocol. The IETF blog recently asked Pardue about the QUIC standards project.Grant GrossMon, 14 Jun 2021 16:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/quicwg-more-security-internet-traffic/http://www.ietf.org/blog/qa-with-our-new-director-of-development/Lee-Berkeley Shaw joins the IETF Administration LLC today as Director of Development. She will focus on designing and delivering the strategy to achieve the IETF’s goals for financial sustainability, with a focus on growing the IETF Endowment. We asked her questions about her plans for the IETF and her background.Grant GrossMon, 07 Jun 2021 13:21:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/qa-with-our-new-director-of-development/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-era-transport/The IETF’s Transport and Services (TSV) area is developing several potentially transformative technologies while it continues to maintain many of the foundational protocols of the Internet.Martin Duke, Zaheduzzaman Sarker, Magnus WesterlundThu, 03 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-era-transport/http://www.ietf.org/blog/innovative-new-technology-for-sending-data/Already broadly deployed and used, QUIC provides lower delay, improved security, and more robust delivery of data.Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:43:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/innovative-new-technology-for-sending-data/http://www.ietf.org/blog/quic-industry/QUIC, a new Internet transport technology that improves web application performance, security and privacy, was reviewed, redesigned and improved in the IETF, incorporating a broad range of input from across the industry.Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:37:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/quic-industry/http://www.ietf.org/blog/first-annual-ietf-community-survey/The IETF is launching its first annual IETF community survey.Jay DaleyFri, 07 May 2021 00:20:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/first-annual-ietf-community-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrw21-deadline-extended/The deadline for submitting papers for consideration for the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 2021 (ANRW’21) has been extended to 5 May 2021.Nick Feamster, Andra Elena LutuTue, 20 Apr 2021 21:28:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrw21-deadline-extended/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-three-year-review-process/After three years of operation, the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) is preparing to conduct a complete assessment of the structure, processes, and operation of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA 2.0) and the IETF LLC. Before beginning this work, we are soliciting community feedback on the proposed timeline and process we will use to conduct the retrospective.Jason LivingoodMon, 12 Apr 2021 14:44:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-three-year-review-process/http://www.ietf.org/blog/annual-report-2020/The IETF Annual Report 2020 provides a summary of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), and RFC Editor community activities from last year.Jason Livingood, Lars EggertTue, 06 Apr 2021 13:38:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/annual-report-2020/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-hackathon/I use the Internet almost every day. If you are reading this, you probably do too. The Internet provides access to information and to each other in ways that are ingrained in our daily routines and on which we rely for both work and play.Charles EckelFri, 02 Apr 2021 18:10:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-hackathon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-110-post-meeting-survey/The result from our IETF 110 post-meeting survey are now available.Jay DaleyThu, 25 Mar 2021 23:33:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-110-post-meeting-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-statement-ofac-compliance-questions/IETF contributors recently asked the IETF LLC about the implications of complying with the US Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Asset Controls (OFAC).Jason LivingoodWed, 24 Mar 2021 14:18:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-statement-ofac-compliance-questions/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-december-2020-financial-statements/We have just pushed the December 2020 Financial Statement for the IETF Administration LLC. These contain some significant end of year audit adjustments that require further explanation.Jay DaleyTue, 23 Mar 2021 10:52:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-december-2020-financial-statements/http://www.ietf.org/blog/reporting-protocol-vulnerabilities/The Internet Engineering Task Force recognizes that security vulnerabilities will be discovered in IETF protocols and welcomes their critical evaluation by researchers. After consulting with the community, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) recently provided guidance on how to report vulnerabilities to ensure they are addressed as effectively as possible.Roman DanyliwMon, 22 Mar 2021 15:35:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/reporting-protocol-vulnerabilities/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ietf-chair-lars-eggert/The IETF Blog recently chatted with incoming chair Lars Eggert about his views of where the IETF is now and what the path ahead looks like. This is an edited version of that conversation.Grant GrossMon, 15 Mar 2021 16:56:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ietf-chair-lars-eggert/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-internet-architecture-board-and-internet-engineering-steering-group-meet-for-first-time/Newly selected members of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) were officially seated in their new roles this week during the 110th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting.Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:11:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-internet-architecture-board-and-internet-engineering-steering-group-meet-for-first-time/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2021-budget/The IETF Administration LLC has finalised its 2021 budget following a community consultation.Jay DaleyMon, 08 Mar 2021 01:56:03 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2021-budget/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-anrp-presentations/A pair of presentations featured during the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open session of the IETF 110 Online meeting (8-12 March 2021) will highlight the application of machine learning to video bit-rate adaptation and Domain Name System (DNS) caching and privacy.Colin PerkinsThu, 04 Mar 2021 20:38:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-anrp-presentations/http://www.ietf.org/blog/revised-ietf-sponsorship-program/After review, research, and consultation with existing meeting hosts and sponsors, the IETF Administration LLC is implementing a restructured sponsorship program in support of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), and Internet Architecture Board (IAB).Jay DaleyTue, 02 Mar 2021 23:46:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/revised-ietf-sponsorship-program/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-technical-update/With the IETF 110 meeting beginning next week, this post provides an update on the steps that have been taken since IETF 109 to improve the technical services that support participation in IETF online meetings.Jay DaleyTue, 02 Mar 2021 21:56:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-technical-update/http://www.ietf.org/blog/handling-iesg-ballot-positions/This document is written to help authors and chairs (especially newer authors and chairs) understand what to do with IESG ballot positions. The most important bit of advice is “Don’t Panic.”Warren KumariFri, 26 Feb 2021 17:12:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/handling-iesg-ballot-positions/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-2020-end-year-survey/The IETF Administration LLC ran a survey over December 2020 - January 2021 to assess community satisfaction with the LLC’s performance in 2020 and community views on our proposed activities for 2021.Jason LivingoodMon, 22 Feb 2021 10:33:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-2020-end-year-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/results-and-analysis-of-the-survey-of-i-d-authors-on-formats-and-tools/In October-November 2020 the IETF Administration LLC ran a survey of I-D authors on the formats and tools that they use. The results of this survey are now available.John Levine, Jay DaleyThu, 04 Feb 2021 07:25:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/results-and-analysis-of-the-survey-of-i-d-authors-on-formats-and-tools/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-bofs/A proposal aimed at addressing authentication challenges faced by Internet of Things (IoT) applications was approved for scheduling at IETF 110.Wed, 03 Feb 2021 10:43:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf110-bofs/http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-milestone/The publication of the standards that provide a foundation for Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) marks a milestone in the development of conferencing services used by billions of people around the world.Alissa CooperWed, 27 Jan 2021 20:51:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-milestone/http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-support/WebRTC technologies enjoy broad support by IETF participants, W3C Members, and across industry.Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:37:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-support/http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-standardized/WebRTC enables rich, interactive, live voice and video communications anywhere on the Web, boosting global interconnectionTue, 26 Jan 2021 16:37:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-standardized/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-109-technical-retrospective/This technical retrospective examines the technical services provided during IETF 109 to help understand the impact of service improvements made between IETF 108 and IETF 109 and what went well and what did not go so well during IETF 109. It concludes with the current plan for improvement to be implemented prior to IETF 110.Jay DaleyThu, 17 Dec 2020 13:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-109-technical-retrospective/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-2020-year-review-survey/Today we are releasing a survey for feedback on the performance of the IETF LLC in 2020.Jason LivingoodTue, 15 Dec 2020 15:08:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-2020-year-review-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-2021-draft-budget/The IETF Administration LLC has prepared its draft budget for 2021 and now seeks community feedback.Jay DaleyMon, 14 Dec 2020 09:58:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-2021-draft-budget/http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-pandemic/WebRTC may arguably be the most important set of technologies used during the COVID-19 pandemic. All web-based videoconferencing services make use of WebRTC, a large set of technologies that allow web browsers to make voice, video, and real-time data calls. WebRTC protocols were developed at the IETF.Grant GrossTue, 08 Dec 2020 12:30:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-pandemic/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-109-post-meeting-survey/The result from our IETF 109 post-meeting survey are now available.Jay DaleyMon, 07 Dec 2020 14:47:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-109-post-meeting-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-hackathon/For the global IETF community, the past year has been about adapting the way we do things to fit a reality that has not allowed us to gather in person. This means finding ways to remain focused on accomplishing our goals, even if that means working a bit differently. That has definitely been true for IETF Hackathon.Charles EckelWed, 02 Dec 2020 19:49:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-hackathon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-highlights/More than 1000 participants gathered for a lively and productive online meeting at IETF 109.Alissa CooperTue, 01 Dec 2020 17:45:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-highlights/http://www.ietf.org/blog/isoc-financial-commitment/Today we are pleased to announce an agreement with the Internet Society that extends their significant existing financial commitment to the IETF for an additional term of six years and establishes a new program to help fundraising efforts aimed at further strengthening the IETF’s long-term financial position.Jason LivingoodMon, 30 Nov 2020 12:10:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/isoc-financial-commitment/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-preview/The 109th IETF meeting will be held online November 16-20 from 5:00 to 11:00 UTC each day. IETF 109 will cap a full year of online IETF meetings.Alissa CooperMon, 09 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-preview/http://www.ietf.org/blog/rfc-v3-xml-issues/We have three general categories of issues: stabilizing and documenting the v3 grammar, managing the costs and speed of the v3 editing process, and managing the output formats.John LevineTue, 03 Nov 2020 16:49:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/rfc-v3-xml-issues/http://www.ietf.org/blog/register-now-ietf-109-online-meeting/Registration is now open and the final agenda has been published for the IETF 109 Online meeting hosted by Cisco.Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:48:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/register-now-ietf-109-online-meeting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-bofs/Two proposals for early-stage discussion were made for IETF 109.Alissa CooperWed, 21 Oct 2020 17:05:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf109-bofs/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-goes-online/Think back to the start of what some refer to as “the COVID-19 era.” It was early 2020 and prep for IETF 107 was in full swing. The wiki for the IETF 107 Hackathon already boasted an exciting list of projects.Charles EckelThu, 24 Sep 2020 17:19:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-goes-online/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-108-non-participation-survey/We recently ran a survey to understand why people who participated in an IETF meeting in 2018/2019 did not participate in IETF 108 to see if there are any issues that we need to fix. The results are now available and this blog post explains some of the insights in the data.Jay DaleyFri, 18 Sep 2020 07:40:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-108-non-participation-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-workshop-covid-19-network-impacts/We often talk about how the Internet evolves. In large part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the year 2020 represents a situation where in a relatively short time, new user demands caused fairly significant changes in what the Internet was needed for.Jari ArkkoMon, 14 Sep 2020 19:44:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-workshop-covid-19-network-impacts/http://www.ietf.org/blog/quic-automated-interop-testing/While interoperability testing has been one of the hallmarks of open standards and Internet protocol development for more than three decades, the process itself has been limited by manual and inconsistent testing.Marten Seemann, Jana IyengarTue, 08 Sep 2020 09:54:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/quic-automated-interop-testing/http://www.ietf.org/blog/quantum-internet/The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open Meeting at the IETF 101 in London had a rather curious point on the agenda: “Vision for a QIRG: Quantum Internet Research Group”. With the hype around quantum computing growing every year, it was only natural that some people would start asking whether the Internet could also benefit from the quantum revolution.Wojciech Kozlowski, Rodney Van MeterMon, 31 Aug 2020 10:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/quantum-internet/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2020-budget-reforecast/The IETF Administration LLC has reforecast its 2020 budget to address the significant changes in the underlying assumptions since the original budget was created.Jay DaleyFri, 28 Aug 2020 02:30:28 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2020-budget-reforecast/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-irtf/Seven of the IRTF research groups and the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) met co-located the IETF 108 meeting, and three Applied Networking Research Prizes were awarded.Colin PerkinsWed, 26 Aug 2020 10:46:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-irtf/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-108-highlights/IETF 108 was the first-ever online IETF meeting with a full agenda.Alissa CooperFri, 14 Aug 2020 19:21:21 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-108-highlights/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-108-meeting-survey/The full results of our post-meeting survey for IETF 108 are now available along with an extended commentary below.Jay DaleyThu, 13 Aug 2020 11:33:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-108-meeting-survey/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-statement-competition-law-issues/The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) has discussed the issue of competition law several times since we formed and is aware it was the topic of a BoF a few years ago. As a result we felt it was a good time to release this statement.Jason LivingoodTue, 28 Jul 2020 11:32:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-statement-competition-law-issues/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-preview/The 108th IETF meeting will be held online July 27-31 from 11:00 to 16:00 UTC each day.Alissa CooperThu, 23 Jul 2020 09:23:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-preview/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-operational-policies-and-2020-strategic-plan/The IETF Administration LLC has now published a set of operational policies and its 2020 Strategic PlanJay DaleyThu, 23 Jul 2020 04:12:29 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-operational-policies-and-2020-strategic-plan/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-five-first-time-wg-meetings/Several new working groups are scheduled to meet for the first time during the IETF 108 Online meeting held 27-31 July 2020.Alissa CooperWed, 15 Jul 2020 18:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-five-first-time-wg-meetings/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-anrp-presentations/Three presentations on a wide range of networking research will be featured during the Internet Research Task Force Open session of the IETF 108 Online meeting scheduled for 27-31 July.Colin PerkinsMon, 13 Jul 2020 17:52:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-anrp-presentations/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-bofs/The IETF 108 Online meeting will host three sessions aiming to form new working groups.Alissa CooperTue, 23 Jun 2020 10:06:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-bofs/http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrw2020-registration/Registration is now open for the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) 2020, which will bring together researchers, operators and representatives of the Internet standards community from around the world and is set to take place online during the week of 27-31 July 2020.Mirja Kühlewind, Roland van Rijswijk-DeijMon, 22 Jun 2020 09:45:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrw2020-registration/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-fee-waiver-new-policy/The IETF 108 meeting, hosted by Ericsson, is switching to a fully online meeting over 5 days with an agenda structure similar to that of an in-person meeting.Jay DaleyFri, 19 Jun 2020 16:18:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-fee-waiver-new-policy/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-all-virtual-retreat-june-2020/The Internet Architecture Board held a virtual retreat in the first week of June, organized in three 1-hour all-IAB sessions and a bunch of break-out sessions distributed over the week.Mirja KühlewindFri, 19 Jun 2020 09:01:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-all-virtual-retreat-june-2020/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-preparing/Almost immediately after the IETF 107 meeting concluded, discussions began about how the experience of participating in IETF meetings online could be improved.Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:53:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-preparing/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-successful-first-annual-financial-review/At its meeting last week, the IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors received from external auditors the report of a clean result for its first-ever stand-alone annual financial statement.Jason LivingoodThu, 28 May 2020 10:59:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-successful-first-annual-financial-review/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-registration-fees/Explaining why we will charge for IETF 108 Online registration and how we set the fees.Jay DaleyWed, 27 May 2020 18:57:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-registration-fees/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-survey-results-informed-planning/With some preliminary scheduling decisions made for IETF 108, we wanted to explain how our survey data has informed decisionmaking thus far.Alissa Cooper, Jay Daley, Colin PerkinsThu, 21 May 2020 09:24:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-survey-results-informed-planning/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-online/The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the IETF LLC Board of Directors, and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Chair have decided to replace the in-person IETF 108 Madrid meeting with an online meeting.Alissa Cooper, Colin Perkins, Jason LivingoodThu, 14 May 2020 21:24:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-online/http://www.ietf.org/blog/annual-report-2019/This IETF Annual Report 2019 provides a summary of Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Architecture Board, Internet Research Task Force, and RFC Editor community activities in 2019.Tue, 12 May 2020 15:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/annual-report-2019/http://www.ietf.org/blog/community-views-possible-online-ietf-meetings/The initial results of the survey on planning for possible online IETF meetings are now available.Jay DaleyTue, 12 May 2020 10:10:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/community-views-possible-online-ietf-meetings/http://www.ietf.org/blog/global-host-huawei/Support of the premier Internet standards development organization includes hosting three future meetingsTue, 28 Apr 2020 15:33:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/global-host-huawei/http://www.ietf.org/blog/assessment-criteria-decision-personvirtual-ietf-108/As set out in our recent email and blog post, we have developed an assessment framework and decision making process for the decision on whether or not the in-person IETF 108 Madrid can go ahead. The proposed framework and process is detailed below and we welcome community feedback.Jay Daley, Alissa Cooper, Colin PerkinsFri, 17 Apr 2020 09:50:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/assessment-criteria-decision-personvirtual-ietf-108/http://www.ietf.org/blog/modernizing-email-and-calendars/While email and calendaring are well-established Internet applications used by billions of people around the world, there is tons of work going on at the IETF right now to maintain and improve the protocols used by client applications to access email and related data from servers and cloud services.Bron GondwanaWed, 08 Apr 2020 17:55:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/modernizing-email-and-calendars/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-planning-update/IETF 108 is scheduled to be held 25-31 July 2020 in Madrid, Spain. However, based on current conditions in Spain and around the world, we are actively planning for a virtual version of the IETF 108 meeting.Alissa Cooper, Jay Daley, Colin PerkinsMon, 06 Apr 2020 21:24:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf108-planning-update/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-highlights/Last week the IETF held its first-ever all-virtual meeting in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic.Alissa CooperFri, 03 Apr 2020 08:47:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-highlights/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-2020-2021/The 2020-2021 IESG and IAB were officially seated as more than 1000 leading technologists were set to join the first-ever virtual Internet Engineering Task Force meetingWed, 25 Mar 2020 20:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-2020-2021/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-cancellation-administrative/Following the announcement by the IESG and the IRTF Chair that the in-person IETF 107 Vancouver meeting is being cancelled, this is an update on various financial and administrative details.Jay DaleyTue, 10 Mar 2020 18:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-cancellation-administrative/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-in-person-cancelled/The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Chair have decided to cancel the in-person IETF 107 Vancouver meeting. This decision is based on input we gathered from Working Group (WG) and Research Group (RG) chairs about our ability to hold productive WG and RG sessions at IETF 107.Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:11:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-in-person-cancelled/http://www.ietf.org/blog/update-ietf-107-vancouver-and-covid-19/This is a further update, as of 4 March 2020, on IETF 107 Vancouver and the ongoing situation with COVID-19 (Coronavirus).Jay DaleyWed, 04 Mar 2020 14:52:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/update-ietf-107-vancouver-and-covid-19/http://www.ietf.org/blog/further-update-covid-19-coronavirus-and-ietf-107-vancouver/As IETF 107 Vancouver approaches we thought it would be useful to update you on our planning around COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and the potential impact on this meeting.Jay DaleyMon, 24 Feb 2020 19:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/further-update-covid-19-coronavirus-and-ietf-107-vancouver/http://www.ietf.org/blog/childcare-starting-ietf-108-madrid/For IETF 108 Madrid we will be introducing childcare for the first time at an IETF meeting to see how it goes.Jay DaleyMon, 24 Feb 2020 07:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/childcare-starting-ietf-108-madrid/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-bofs/The IETF 107 meeting in Vancouver taking place March 21-27 will host four sessions aiming to form new working groups.Alissa CooperThu, 20 Feb 2020 15:13:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf107-bofs/http://www.ietf.org/blog/recap-january-2020-ietf-llc-board-retreat/The IETF LLC Board met for a two-day face-to-face retreat on 29-30 January 2020 in Washington, D.C. I wanted to take this opportunity to give a quick update to the IETF community.Jason LivingoodFri, 14 Feb 2020 11:20:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/recap-january-2020-ietf-llc-board-retreat/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-staffing-update/I am pleased to announce that Greg Wood will be joining the IETF LLC as Director of Communications and Operations beginning February 1, 2020.Jay DaleyMon, 27 Jan 2020 19:11:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-staffing-update/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2020-budget/The IETF Administration LLC has finalised its 2020 budget following a community consultation.Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:42:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-administration-llc-2020-budget/http://www.ietf.org/blog/stir-action/Providers of voice over IP in the United States will be required to implement the IETF’s Secure Telephony Identity Revisited (STIR) protocol as a result of recently enacted legislation to address some of the root causes of illegal robocalling on the telephone network.Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:47:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/stir-action/http://www.ietf.org/blog/tls13-adoption/Just over a year after it was published as an RFC, TLS 1.3 adoption is growing rapidly.Joseph A. Salowey, Sean Turner, Christopher A. WoodTue, 17 Dec 2019 16:52:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/tls13-adoption/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf106-highlights/At the end of November the IETF community gathered in Singapore for its 106th meeting. Across all six of the IETF’s technical areas, we saw constructive discussions of new work proposals, existing working groups progressing towards major milestones, and mature working groups wrapping up their final work items before closing. Here is a taste of what happened in each area.Alissa CooperThu, 05 Dec 2019 22:03:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf106-highlights/http://www.ietf.org/blog/meeting-network-monitoring/The IETF Network Operations Center (NOC) team takes on the large task to build each meetings network. Monitoring the network once it is built is important. The NOC uses a number of tools and one of those tools is a number of Raspberry Pis.Sean Croghan, William JensenWed, 27 Nov 2019 10:23:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/meeting-network-monitoring/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf106-starts-soon/Looking ahead to IETF 106 taking place 16-22 November 2019 in Singapore? Here are a few final items to consider before the meeting starts.Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:39:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf106-starts-soon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/2020-draft-budget-narrative/The IETF Administration LLC has drafted the 2020 Budget under the guidance of its first permanent board. Careful consideration has been provided to each budget request as well as the needs of the Community as a whole.Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:25:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/2020-draft-budget-narrative/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-policies-published/One of our key work items, developing policies for the IETF LLC, is now complete.Jason LivingoodThu, 07 Nov 2019 14:11:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-policies-published/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-strategic-retreat/The IESG held a second retreat in 2019 to focus on strategic objectives.Alissa CooperMon, 28 Oct 2019 11:45:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-strategic-retreat/http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-exec-director/One of the most critical tasks facing the inaugural IETF LLC Board this year was to hire a permanent IETF Executive Director.Jason LivingoodThu, 24 Oct 2019 11:04:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-exec-director/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf106-bofs/All proposed sessions focused on new work will see time on the IETF 106 agenda.Alissa CooperWed, 16 Oct 2019 15:25:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf106-bofs/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf105-iot-wrapup/Continuing the tradition of activity around the IETF on the Internet of Things (IoT), there was a great deal of work on topics related to or affecting IoT in Montreal at the latest IETF Hackathon and IETF 105 meeting.Steve OlshanskyMon, 09 Sep 2019 12:24:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf105-iot-wrapup/http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrp-ietf105/Once again at IETF 105, a highlight of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open session was presentations by recent winners of the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP).Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:36:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrp-ietf105/http://www.ietf.org/blog/how-many-words/We have all heard the the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” In that case, how many words is running code worth? Based on recent IETF Hackathons, I would estimate the number to be much higher.Charles EckelMon, 19 Aug 2019 16:21:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/how-many-words/http://www.ietf.org/blog/stir/Recently, the output of the IETF Secure Telephony Identity Revisited (STIR) working group has received considerable attention from service providers, regulators, and the press because it addresses some of the root causes of the illegal robocalling which has crippled the telephone network.Jon PetersonMon, 12 Aug 2019 15:57:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/stir/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-105-highlights/The 105th gathering of the IETF community took place July 20-26, 2019. It featured several popular special sessions in addition to productive working group meetings.Alissa CooperTue, 06 Aug 2019 11:29:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-105-highlights/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf105-preview/The IETF community will gather in Montréal for its 105th meeting from July 20 to July 26, 2019.Alissa CooperWed, 17 Jul 2019 11:43:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf105-preview/http://www.ietf.org/blog/arc/RFC 8617 addresses authentication failures in complex mail flows.Seth BlankThu, 11 Jul 2019 09:50:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/arc/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf105-bofs/Six sessions devoted to new work proposals will be scheduled on the IETF 105 agenda.Alissa CooperWed, 19 Jun 2019 11:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf105-bofs/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-draft-policies-comment/One of the IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors' key work items has been to develop policies for the IETF LLC. We are now beginning our first formal IETF community consultation during which we invite community comment.Jason LivingoodTue, 11 Jun 2019 10:12:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-draft-policies-comment/http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrp-ietf104/Presentations by recent winners of the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) were a highlight the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open session at IETF 104.Colin PerkinsMon, 27 May 2019 11:36:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/anrp-ietf104/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-version-tao-ietf/Since 1993 the Tao of the IETF has functioned as the guide for new attendees to the IETF. Over time both the IETF and the Tao have changed. The last revision of the Tao was in 2012, which led us to believe it might be time for a new version.Kathleen Moriarty, Niels ten OeverThu, 23 May 2019 08:53:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-version-tao-ietf/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-execdir/The IETF Administration LLC has begun the public phase of our search for a permanent IETF Executive Director. The closing date for applications is 12 noon (EST) on Friday, June 21, 2019.Wed, 22 May 2019 14:54:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-execdir/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-iot-wrapup/At IETF 104, there was a great deal of activity related to various aspects of the IoT ecosystem across numerous working groups, Birds-of-a-Feather gatherings, the Thing-to-Thing Research Group (T2TRG), as well as side conversations. The IETF Hackathon preceding IETF 104, as well as spontaneous conversations in hallways and over meals around IETF 104, were also fruitful.Steve OlshanskyMon, 20 May 2019 12:24:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-iot-wrapup/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-board-first-meeting/The IETF LLC Board met for a two-day face-to-face meeting last week in Washington, D.C.Jason LivingoodThu, 16 May 2019 10:12:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-board-first-meeting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/third-hackathon-prague/IETF 104 in Prague featured what was by far the biggest and most successful IETF Hackathon ever.Charles EckelTue, 14 May 2019 10:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/third-hackathon-prague/http://www.ietf.org/blog/webpackaging/Web Packaging is being considered for standardization. Would doing so create better Internet experiences? Consolidate more power into the hands of a few Internet giants? Make online content accessible to new audiences and monetizable in new ways? All or none of the above?Mark NottinghamThu, 09 May 2019 08:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/webpackaging/http://www.ietf.org/blog/jmap/The new JMAP protocol addresses shortcomings of previous open protocols connecting email clients and servers were not designed for the modern age. JMAP is the result of efforts to address shortcomings, providing a modern, efficient, easy-to-use API, built on many years of experience and field testing.Bron Gondwana, Neil JenkinsMon, 06 May 2019 11:03:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/jmap/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2019/The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) spent two days of quality time exploring ways to improve the IETF at its annual retreat last week.Alissa CooperThu, 02 May 2019 15:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2019/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-highlights/Prague proved once again to be a productive and fun venue to advance the work of the IETF.Alissa CooperMon, 08 Apr 2019 08:23:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-highlights/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-2018-2019/More than 1200 leading technologists gathered 
for the 104th Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in PragueWed, 27 Mar 2019 17:20:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-2018-2019/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-preview/For our 104th meeting we will be returning to one of the IETF’s favorite cities: Prague, Czech Republic.Alissa CooperWed, 20 Mar 2019 15:46:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-preview/http://www.ietf.org/blog/nokia-globalhost/Support of the premier Internet standards development organization will include hosting the 106th IETF meeting on 16-22 November 2019Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:05:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/nokia-globalhost/http://www.ietf.org/blog/mud/This week the IETF again turns its attention to Internet of Things (IoT) security with the release of RFC 8520 on Manufacturer Usage Descriptions (MUD).Andrew Cohen, Eliot Lear, Brian WeisWed, 13 Mar 2019 17:04:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/mud/http://www.ietf.org/blog/acme/The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol, recently published as RFC 8555, lets you set up a secure website in just a few seconds.Richard Barnes, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Daniel McCarneyTue, 12 Mar 2019 14:42:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/acme/http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-catalog-move/The YANG Catalog, a platform for publishing and accessing information about and tooling for developing and using YANG models, is entering a new phase as it transitions to a platform supported by the IETF Administration LLC.Benoît Claise, Joe Clarke, Carl Moberg, Éric VynckeFri, 08 Mar 2019 11:32:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-catalog-move/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-board-ietf-trust-announcement-2019/As chair of the 2018-2019 IETF Nominating Committee (NomCom), it gives me great pleasure to announce the results of the selection process for the IETF Administration LLC Board and the IETF Trust.Scott MansfieldThu, 07 Mar 2019 16:22:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-board-ietf-trust-announcement-2019/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-bofs/Six sessions focused on potential new work to be added to the IETF 104 agenda.Alissa CooperWed, 20 Feb 2019 16:58:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf104-bofs/http://www.ietf.org/blog/dns-terminology/An RFC updating DNS terminology was recently published, continuing a decades-long IETF practice of publishing documents to help introduce interested readers to protocol topics by going through the most important terms.Kazunori Fujiwara, Paul E. Hoffman, Andrew SullivanMon, 11 Feb 2019 15:29:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/dns-terminology/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-first-contribution/Comcast NBCUniversal, a long-time supporter of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), has made a significant contribution to the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC), which was established at the end of August 2018 to provide an updated administrative and legal framework for the work of the IETF.Portia Wenze-DanleyThu, 24 Jan 2019 15:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-llc-first-contribution/http://www.ietf.org/blog/cisco-co-host-ietf104/The IETF Administration LLC is pleased to announce that Cisco will co-host IETF 104 with CZ.NIC. The meeting will be at the Hilton Prague March 23-29, 2019.Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:28:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/cisco-co-host-ietf104/http://www.ietf.org/blog/annouce-nomcom-iesg-2019/The Chair of the 2018-2019 Nominating Committee (NomCom) announced the results of the NomCom selection process for the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) positions to serve for the 2019-2021 cycle.Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:35:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/annouce-nomcom-iesg-2019/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-bangkok-jumpstarts-innovation/Just when you thought it could not get any better, the IETF Hackathon reached new heights, not just in number of participants or projects, but in meaningful contributions to the IETF community and the standardization process.Charles EckelFri, 21 Dec 2018 14:45:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-bangkok-jumpstarts-innovation/http://www.ietf.org/blog/2019-ietf-administration-llc-budget/The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) Interim Board has approved the 2019 budget as recommended by the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC).Portia Wenze-DanleyThu, 20 Dec 2018 13:19:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/2019-ietf-administration-llc-budget/http://www.ietf.org/blog/doh-operational-and-privacy-issues/The DoH specification in RFC 8484 defines a standardized format and protocol for sending Domain Name System (DNS) queries through HTTP rather than the traditional DNS protocol.Patrick McManus, Paul E. HoffmanWed, 05 Dec 2018 09:56:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/doh-operational-and-privacy-issues/http://www.ietf.org/blog/experiences-igf-2018/The Internet is not merely about technology and business. The Internet affects many aspects of our lives and societies. And of course, our societies affect the Internet. One way that this happens is via regulation, which was a hot topic in the most recent Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting.Jari ArkkoFri, 30 Nov 2018 15:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/experiences-igf-2018/http://www.ietf.org/blog/herding-dns-camel/Bert Hubert, the founder of PowerDNS and author of RFC 5452, shares his views on forces influencing DNS protocol development.Bert HubertWed, 21 Nov 2018 09:24:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/herding-dns-camel/http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-103/From November 3 to 9, the IETF community gathered for its 103rd meeting in the bustling city of Bangkok. This was our first meeting in Thailand. The incredible hospitality, sleek venue, and delicious food provided a setting well-suited to a productive and enjoyable meeting.Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:19:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-103/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-103-preview/From November 3 to 9, the IETF will gather for its first visit to Bangkok, Thailand. Here's snapshot of some of the sessions and topics on tap for the week.Alissa CooperWed, 31 Oct 2018 14:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-103-preview/http://www.ietf.org/blog/whats-happening-quic/Two years ago, the IETF chartered the QUIC Working Group to "provide a standards-track specification for a UDP-based, stream-multiplexing, encrypted transport protocol, based on pre-standardization implementation and deployment experience."Mark NottinghamMon, 29 Oct 2018 08:05:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/whats-happening-quic/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ipv6-internet-standard/RFC8200 (STD86) was published a year ago and this elevates the IPv6 protocol to Internet Standard. This has been the long-awaited end result of the decades-long experience of deploying and collecting feedback about the previous version of the IPv6 protocol specification (RFC2460) published in 1998.Bob Hinden, Suresh KrishnanWed, 17 Oct 2018 11:50:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ipv6-internet-standard/http://www.ietf.org/blog/birds-and-rats/Two Birds of a Feather sessions have been approved for the next IETF meeting, one of which focuses on Remote ATtestation ProcedureS (RATS).Alissa CooperWed, 03 Oct 2018 13:54:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/birds-and-rats/http://www.ietf.org/blog/how-read-rfc/For better or worse, Requests for Comments (RFCs) are how we specify many protocols on the Internet. These documents are alternatively treated as holy texts by developers who parse them for hidden meanings, then shunned as irrelevant because they can’t be understood. This often leads to frustration and – more significantly – interoperability and security issues. However, with some insight into how they’re constructed and published, it’s a bit easier to understand what you’re looking at.Mark NottinghamSun, 09 Sep 2018 14:47:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/how-read-rfc/http://www.ietf.org/blog/researchers-first-encounter/As Ph.D. students, our typical encounter with the IETF community and their work is by stumbling over RFCs and Internet-Drafts that either relate to or are a fundamental basis for our research.Jan Rüth, Torsten ZimmermannSat, 01 Sep 2018 16:22:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/researchers-first-encounter/http://www.ietf.org/blog/evolving-administrative-arrangements/After more than 10 years, the IETF is making a major update to the administrative framework for supporting its work.Alissa CooperTue, 28 Aug 2018 05:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/evolving-administrative-arrangements/http://www.ietf.org/blog/my-experience-ietf-newcomer/William Zhang, a high school student from Alexandria, Virginia, USA presented his work on Automatic Multicast Tunneling at IETF 101 in March 2018.William ZhangSun, 26 Aug 2018 15:42:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/my-experience-ietf-newcomer/http://www.ietf.org/blog/tls13/TLS 1.3 updates the most important security protocol on the Internet, delivering superior privacy, security, and performance.Joseph A. Salowey, Sean Turner, Christopher A. WoodFri, 10 Aug 2018 12:55:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/tls13/http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-102/From July 14 to 20 over a thousand participants gathered in Montreal for a productive IETF meeting.Alissa CooperMon, 30 Jul 2018 18:33:03 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-102/http://www.ietf.org/blog/something-everyone-ietf-102/IETF 102, taking place July 14-20 in Montréal, Québec, Canada, is shaping up as a unique gathering for people from across a wide array of Internet engineering backgrounds and disciplines.Alissa CooperWed, 11 Jul 2018 11:33:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/something-everyone-ietf-102/http://www.ietf.org/blog/birds-feather-ietf-102/Three community discussion sessions on wide-ranging topics have been approved for the next IETF meeting.Alissa CooperFri, 15 Jun 2018 12:21:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/birds-feather-ietf-102/http://www.ietf.org/blog/world-ipv6-launch-6th-anniversary/Today is the 6th anniversary of World IPv6 Launch. We have come a long way since June 6, 2012.Bob HindenWed, 06 Jun 2018 05:06:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/world-ipv6-launch-6th-anniversary/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2018/At the end of April the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) gathered in Paris for its 2018 retreat.Alissa CooperFri, 04 May 2018 09:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2018/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-working-group-chartered/The IETF has chartered a new working group to document changes to its administrative arrangements.Alissa CooperWed, 25 Apr 2018 08:16:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iasa2-working-group-chartered/http://www.ietf.org/blog/remembering-bob-braden/I am writing to share the sad news that Bob Braden has passed away. Bob's contributions to the development of the Internet were extensive.Alissa CooperThu, 19 Apr 2018 10:49:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/remembering-bob-braden/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-london/IETF Hackathons began just over three years ago as a way of connecting Internet protocol development more closely with running code, and they have been growing ever since.Charles EckelTue, 17 Apr 2018 17:11:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-london/http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-data-models-industry-march-2018/Just after IETF 101 in London, let’s analyze the current state of affairs in the YANG Data Models world.Benoît ClaiseWed, 04 Apr 2018 09:16:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-data-models-industry-march-2018/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-101-highlights/The IETF community took full advantage of the opportunity to collaborate at the 101st IETF meeting last week in London, UK.Alissa CooperThu, 29 Mar 2018 08:32:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-101-highlights/http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-architecture-board-and-internet-engineering-steering-group-seat-members-2018-2019/More than 1000 leading technologists gathered 
for the 101st Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in LondonWed, 21 Mar 2018 09:49:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-architecture-board-and-internet-engineering-steering-group-seat-members-2018-2019/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-101-preview/IETF participants are gearing up for an intense week of collaboration and discussion at IETF 101, with numerous sessions focused on new work proposals and our largest Hackathon yet.Alissa CooperFri, 16 Mar 2018 08:05:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-101-preview/http://www.ietf.org/blog/consolidation/One of the tasks of the Internet Architecture Board is to look at trends affecting the Internet. Recently, we've been discussing traffic flows and popular applications on the Internet, and the role of smaller vs. larger players in the Internet ecosystem.Sun, 04 Mar 2018 15:10:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/consolidation/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-ietf-101/A slate of new work proposals have been approved for scheduling at the upcoming IETF 101 meeting.Alissa CooperSat, 17 Feb 2018 15:55:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-ietf-101/http://www.ietf.org/blog/blind-men-and-elephant/Bufferbloat is responsible for much of the poor performance seen in the Internet today and causes latency (called “lag” by gamers) even by your own routine web browsing and video playing.Jim GettysSat, 10 Feb 2018 15:37:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/blind-men-and-elephant/http://www.ietf.org/blog/bangkok-selected-ietf-103/The IAOC is pleased to announce Bangkok, Thailand as the site for IETF 103 from November 3 - 9, 2018.Fri, 02 Feb 2018 13:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/bangkok-selected-ietf-103/http://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-2017-2018-announcement-nomcom-selections/As chair of the 2017-2018 NomCom, it gives me great pleasure to announce the results of the NomCom selection process for all positions to serve for the 2018-2020 cycle.Peter YeeTue, 30 Jan 2018 02:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-2017-2018-announcement-nomcom-selections/http://www.ietf.org/blog/codel-improved-networking-through-adaptively-managed-router-queues/Internet routers must be able to buffer packets: buffering acts like a shock absorber for transient overloads that arise when the input link is faster than the output link or packets arrive simultaneously on different links bound for the same destination.Van Jacobson, Dr. Kathleen M. NicholsSat, 27 Jan 2018 01:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/codel-improved-networking-through-adaptively-managed-router-queues/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-101-bof-deadline/The deadline to submit Birds of a Feather (BoF) proposals for IETF 101 is rapidly approaching: Friday, February 2 at 23:59 UTC.Alissa CooperMon, 22 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-101-bof-deadline/http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-governance-forum-2017/The Internet Governance Forum’s meetings bring together Internet user communities, businesses, technical folk, and a set of UN and government bodies.Alissa Cooper, Ted HardieTue, 09 Jan 2018 13:48:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-governance-forum-2017/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-website-status-update/Thanks to everyone who provided further input about the revamped www.ietf.org website around IETF 100.Russ HousleyMon, 18 Dec 2017 18:32:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-website-status-update/http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-data-models-industry-current-state-affairs-november-2017/For years, the IETF has been driving the industry transition from an overloaded Software Defined Networking (SDN) buzzword to data modeling-driven management.Benoît ClaiseMon, 11 Dec 2017 16:41:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-data-models-industry-current-state-affairs-november-2017/http://www.ietf.org/blog/participating-ietf-hackathon-mauritius/Hackers.mu is a developer group based in Mauritius made up of a wide range of people from different backgrounds: high school students, university students, professional engineers, and advisors to the minister of ICT.Loganaden VelvindronThu, 07 Dec 2017 11:02:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/participating-ietf-hackathon-mauritius/http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-100/IETF 100 wrapped up just over a week ago in steamy Singapore. In addition to our usual productive working group sessions, hallway conversations, and ad hoc collaboration, we took the opportunity to mark the milestone of the 100th meeting with looks backward and forward in the IETF’s trajectory (plus some bubbles and sweets) at the plenary session.Alissa CooperMon, 27 Nov 2017 16:28:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-100/http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-catalog-latest-developments-ietf-100-hackathon/The YANG team delivered again at the IETF 100 hackathon. With our goal to help YANG model users and designers, we developed new automation tools.Benoît ClaiseWed, 22 Nov 2017 16:24:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-catalog-latest-developments-ietf-100-hackathon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-100-preview/IETF 100 is just around the corner. It will offer all the usual opportunities for high-bandwidth exchange among IETF participants and collaboration around specs, coding and interop work. This post provides some highlights.Alissa CooperWed, 08 Nov 2017 15:21:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-100-preview/http://www.ietf.org/blog/privacy-and-trustworthiness-web-notifications/RFC 8188 builds on existing protocols to provide a new option for delivering trustworthy messages containing confidential information over the Internet.Martin ThomsonWed, 18 Oct 2017 04:59:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/privacy-and-trustworthiness-web-notifications/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ename-workshop/A highly interactive workshop organized by the Internet Architecture Board raises important issues and generates ideas for significant follow-on work.Dr. Ted HardieTue, 17 Oct 2017 13:41:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ename-workshop/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-ietf-100/Birds of a Feather sessions (BoFs) are initial, informal, in-person discussions about a particular the topic of interest to the IETF community. BoFs may or may not lead to establishing an IETF Working Group.Alissa CooperSat, 14 Oct 2017 08:07:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-ietf-100/http://www.ietf.org/blog/vancouver-selected-ietf-107/The IAOC is pleased to announce Vancouver, BC, Canada as the site for IETF 107 from March 21 - 27, 2020.Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/vancouver-selected-ietf-107/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-rfc-editor-website/In early 2002, the RFC Editor revised their website look and feel to one that would stay essentially unchanged for the next 13 years.Heather FlanaganTue, 03 Oct 2017 11:35:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-rfc-editor-website/http://www.ietf.org/blog/interim-ietf-administrative-director-hired/I am pleased to share that the IAOC has successfully concluded its search for an interim IETF Administrative Director.Leslie DaigleThu, 28 Sep 2017 10:19:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/interim-ietf-administrative-director-hired/http://www.ietf.org/blog/strengthening-internet-security-and-accommodating-data-center-requirements-finding-path-forward/With the intention to encourage the development of a solution to an issue currently under discussion within an IETF working group, I wanted to offer a personal view of a possible ways forward.Kathleen MoriartyMon, 18 Sep 2017 08:38:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/strengthening-internet-security-and-accommodating-data-center-requirements-finding-path-forward/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-99-wrap/IETF Internet Area Director Suresh Krishnan provides a brief wrap up from IETF 99.Suresh KrishnanWed, 26 Jul 2017 09:28:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-99-wrap/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-99-preview/IETF 99 is about to kick off in Prague, Czech Republic. There is lots of exciting work going on across more than 100 working groups, plus Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions, plenary talks, and other meetings.Alissa CooperSat, 15 Jul 2017 20:30:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-99-preview/http://www.ietf.org/blog/whats-behind-bcp79bis/Working on technical standards in the computing, communications and networking industries often involves dealing with patents. Like most standards-development organizations (SDOs), the IETF has policies that deal with patents covering IETF protocols, specifications and standards.Scott O. Bradner, Jorge ContrerasFri, 14 Jul 2017 14:10:29 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/whats-behind-bcp79bis/http://www.ietf.org/blog/5g-and-internet-technology/5G is the latest generation of cellular network standards. There’s a tremendous amount of activity around it in the industry. But how does 5G relate to Internet technology? Are there 5G-related work items that the IETF should be working on, for instance?Jari Arkko, Jeff TantsuraFri, 16 Jun 2017 09:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/5g-and-internet-technology/http://www.ietf.org/blog/what-does-internet-access-mean/On the joint day of the the recent IESG and IAB retreats, the group discussed a number of topics related to network operator activities for encrypted flows. Ted HardieMon, 12 Jun 2017 07:53:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/what-does-internet-access-mean/http://www.ietf.org/blog/working-together-3gpp-5g/Last week I had the opportunity to participate at the 3GPP plenary meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, at the invitation of the 3GPP liaison to the IETF, Georg Mayer.Alissa CooperMon, 12 Jun 2017 06:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/working-together-3gpp-5g/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-upcoming-ietf-99-meeting/Before each IETF meeting, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) collects proposals for new working groups. We decide which ones are ready for community discussion on the IETF meeting agenda, with input from the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).Alissa CooperSun, 11 Jun 2017 05:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-upcoming-ietf-99-meeting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/increasing-capabilities-advanced-automatic-crash-notifications/Recently published IETF RFCs aim to expand the capabilities of such services, and to make them more broadly implementable.Randall Gellens, Brian RosenThu, 08 Jun 2017 12:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/increasing-capabilities-advanced-automatic-crash-notifications/http://www.ietf.org/blog/profile-mirja-kuhlewind/Periodic posts on the IETF Blog highlight individuals who serve in IETF leadership roles, people who have recently begun working in the IETF, and organizations that make the work of the IETF possible.Greg WoodThu, 01 Jun 2017 08:20:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/profile-mirja-kuhlewind/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2017/The IESG held its annual retreat last week, meeting one day jointly with the IAB and two days on our own in Montreal, Canada.Alissa CooperThu, 25 May 2017 08:26:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2017/http://www.ietf.org/blog/routing-area-update-after-ietf-98/As Routing Area Directors, we have now made it a habit to share some of our thoughts after each IETF meeting. This is a short summary of some of the highlights from the recent one in Chicago.Alia Atlas, Alvaro Retana, Deborah BrungardWed, 10 May 2017 15:16:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/routing-area-update-after-ietf-98/http://www.ietf.org/blog/looking-ahead-facing-change/About a month ago I officially took on the role of IETF Chair.Alissa CooperTue, 09 May 2017 15:18:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/looking-ahead-facing-change/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-2017/Newly selected members of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Committee (IESG) were officially seated in their new roles during the 98th Internet Engineering Task Force Meeting held in Chicago on 26-31 March 2107.Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-iesg-2017/http://www.ietf.org/blog/seeking-community-feedback-revamp-wwwietforg/There has been a lot of progress on the project to revamp of the www.ietf.org website.Russ HousleyMon, 17 Apr 2017 19:04:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/seeking-community-feedback-revamp-wwwietforg/http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-catalog-latest-development-ietf-98-hackathon/The IETF 98 is now over. This was a successful IETF meeting in multiple ways, one of which is the IETF Hackathon, two days of hacking on Saturday/Sunday.Benoît ClaiseFri, 14 Apr 2017 15:21:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-catalog-latest-development-ietf-98-hackathon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-98/The 98th IETF meeting wrapped up last Friday in Chicago. It was a typically busy work week for IETF participants, but also a special week, as a number of changes in our leadership became official.Alissa CooperThu, 06 Apr 2017 15:34:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/highlights-ietf-98/http://www.ietf.org/blog/profile-jari-arkko/Periodic posts on the IETF Blog highlight individuals who serve in IETF leadership roles, people who have recently begun working in the IETF, and organizations that make the work of the IETF possible.Greg WoodMon, 27 Mar 2017 15:41:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/profile-jari-arkko/http://www.ietf.org/blog/profile-alissa-cooper/Periodic posts will highlight individuals who serve in IETF leadership roles, people who have recently begun working in the IETF, and organizations that make the work of the IETF possible. Each post aims to describe experiences working within or supporting the IETF.Greg WoodThu, 23 Mar 2017 16:42:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/profile-alissa-cooper/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-98-highlights/The Chicago IETF begins in a couple of days, and I wanted to point people to a few highlights from my perspective. Jari ArkkoWed, 22 Mar 2017 16:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-98-highlights/http://www.ietf.org/blog/university-students-create-running-code-internet/IETF Hackathons embody the IETF’s tradition of running code—testing theories against the realties of implementation, with a goal of accelerating the definition and adoption of protocols and technologies that make the Internet work better.Greg WoodTue, 14 Mar 2017 16:55:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/university-students-create-running-code-internet/http://www.ietf.org/blog/observations-cia-revelations/Recent news stories, and some IETF list discussion, have related to the release of (claimed) CIA materials relating to surveillance, hacking and information warfare.Jari Arkko, Stephen FarrellFri, 10 Mar 2017 18:02:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/observations-cia-revelations/http://www.ietf.org/blog/reviewing-and-assessing-ietf-administrative-support-activity/The current IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) arrangements were created more than ten years ago when the IETF initially took charge of its own administration [1].Jari Arkko, Alissa CooperTue, 14 Feb 2017 12:54:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/reviewing-and-assessing-ietf-administrative-support-activity/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-iesg/Every year, the IETF selects its leadership through the nominations committee or NomCom process. Today, the committee has announced our new steering group (IESG) members.Jari ArkkoTue, 31 Jan 2017 12:48:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-iesg/http://www.ietf.org/blog/barriers-entry/The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a global community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers that develops Internet protocols.Jari Arkko, Leslie Daigle, Andrew SullivanMon, 30 Jan 2017 12:47:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/barriers-entry/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-rfc-archive/RFCs are documents designed to serve a variety of purposes. They offer information to developers engineers on how to make the Internet interoperate.Heather FlanaganMon, 16 Jan 2017 12:44:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-rfc-archive/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-chicago/The essence of the IETF is that it is a place for people who both write code and specs.Jari ArkkoWed, 11 Jan 2017 12:40:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-chicago/http://www.ietf.org/blog/call-tools-volunteers-and-contractors/First, there will be a CodeSprint on Saturday March 25th just before IETF-98 in Chicago.Jari Arkko, Russ HousleyMon, 09 Jan 2017 12:33:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/call-tools-volunteers-and-contractors/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ideas-ietf-98/Do you have an idea that you believe would be worthwhile standardising? Now would be a great time to start talking about it, in time for our meeting in Chicago in March!Jari ArkkoMon, 09 Jan 2017 12:28:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ideas-ietf-98/http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-governance-forum-igf-2016/The Internet Governance Forum or IGF is a discussion forum on matters relating to the administrative and policy questions surrounding the Internet. A handful of IETFers attended the yearly IGF meeting, this time happening in Guadalajara, Mexico, in December. We wanted to report what we saw and talk about why the discussions at the forum are important.Jari Arkko, Andrew Sullivan, Dr. Ted Hardie, Barry LeibaTue, 03 Jan 2017 10:37:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-governance-forum-igf-2016/http://www.ietf.org/blog/reflections-ietf-97/I wanted to send a post summarising my thoughts of the discussions at IETF-97. We had 1042 people from 52 countries on site in Seoul, very active development on a number of fronts, and I thought a successful meeting! (Apologies for sending this post out late, other tasks, holidays, etc intervened.)Jari ArkkoTue, 03 Jan 2017 10:34:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/reflections-ietf-97/http://www.ietf.org/blog/reflections-routing-area-after-ietf-97/Looking Back on IETF 97Alia AtlasTue, 06 Dec 2016 15:31:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/reflections-routing-area-after-ietf-97/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-and-chair-report-ietf-97/This report is sent out before IETF-97 begins, in an effort to reduce reporting at the plenary and to provide an ability to discuss topics on list beforehand and afterwards.Jari ArkkoTue, 15 Nov 2016 05:48:01 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-and-chair-report-ietf-97/http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-quick-status-update-ietf-97/Let me start with some good news. Not only we recently approved RESTCONF (right now in the RFC editor queue), but we published the IPv4 and IPv6 base routing models in RFC 8022.Benoît ClaiseSun, 13 Nov 2016 16:40:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-quick-status-update-ietf-97/http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-97/IETF-97 is starting in a couple of days in Seoul, Korea, as well as running online for many participants connecting over the Internet.Jari ArkkoMon, 07 Nov 2016 16:52:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-97/http://www.ietf.org/blog/proposed-project-ietf-administrative-support-20/The arrangements relating to administrative support for the IETF (IASA, RFC 4071) were created more than ten years ago, when the IETF initially took charge of its own administration.Jari ArkkoThu, 03 Nov 2016 13:16:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/proposed-project-ietf-administrative-support-20/http://www.ietf.org/blog/attacks-against-architecture/The scale, complexity, and potential harm of Denial-of-Service attacks involving the use of compromised or misconfigured nodes or “things” is increasing. Across multiple services and activities, the network seems to be unable to defend itself effectively against large-scale bad behavior. Why is this? Can something be done about it? Who should act?Jari ArkkoThu, 27 Oct 2016 12:25:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/attacks-against-architecture/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-seoul/A month before the meeting our steering group collects proposals for new working groups. We decide which ones are ready enough for the community to discuss the proposals in the meeting. We did this last week, and I wanted to report what new meetings will be held.Jari ArkkoWed, 12 Oct 2016 12:28:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-work-seoul/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-stewardship-and-transition-goes-ahead/Today marks the execution of the contracts and arrangements relating to the IANA stewardship transition. The US government has ended their role in this matter. I am happy about the transition, and happy that it is happening as specified by the IETF and other communities. For me, the key issue is that the communities are in charge.Jari ArkkoSat, 01 Oct 2016 12:36:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-stewardship-and-transition-goes-ahead/http://www.ietf.org/blog/working-ieee-802/Standards organisations have their areas of work, but for many topics efforts affect multiple organisations, or even span across multiple organisations. Take the IETF and the IEEE for instance, as our efforts often interact. Jari ArkkoFri, 16 Sep 2016 12:45:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/working-ieee-802/http://www.ietf.org/blog/bofs-ietf-97/I wanted to remind you that we are soliciting proposals for new work at the IETF. If you have an idea, this would be a good time to bring it up!Jari ArkkoFri, 16 Sep 2016 12:41:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/bofs-ietf-97/http://www.ietf.org/blog/codesprints-hackathons-and-interops-seoul/The essence of the IETF is not that we write specs for some other people to implement. It is that we are a place for people who write code to write specs as well. With that in mind, a big part of our work is allowing for that code writing to happen. This happens at many levels: the IETF Hackathon focuses on open source projects and Internet technology, the CodeSprint is about IETF’s own tools and web services, interoperability events test specific pieces of technology, and so on.Jari ArkkoWed, 31 Aug 2016 12:50:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/codesprints-hackathons-and-interops-seoul/http://www.ietf.org/blog/routing-area-directors-thoughts-ietf-96/Kicking off IETF 96 in Berlin, Germany was the weekend’s IETF Hackathon. There is growing engagement between the Open Source communities and the IETF. The IETF Hackathon had more participants than ever and we experimented with having a place for it in the IETF Lounge all week.Alia Atlas, Deborah Brungard, Alvaro RetanaWed, 03 Aug 2016 12:54:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/routing-area-directors-thoughts-ietf-96/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-96-thoughts/We had a great meeting in Berlin, the IETF crowd clearly likes to meet there! As our meeting ended, we had 1424 people participating on site and 337 people remotely. Out of the registered remote participants, 79 were from USA, 73 from India, 52 from Brazil, and 13 from Japan.Jari ArkkoWed, 27 Jul 2016 12:59:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-96-thoughts/http://www.ietf.org/blog/patching-internet-things-iot-software-update-workshop-2016/“There’s a huge problem with the Internet of Things and we need to do something about it.” That was the invitation that brought participants to the Internet of Things Software Update Workshop (IoTSU) held at Trinity College, Dublin on June 13 and 14.Pierre Pfister, Maciek KonstantynowiczTue, 26 Jul 2016 13:08:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/patching-internet-things-iot-software-update-workshop-2016/http://www.ietf.org/blog/hacking-packet-processing-ietf96/When the idea of participating in this hackathon came about, the goal was mostly to leverage FD.io’s Vector Packet Processor (VPP) as a platform and show its performance, capabilities, modularity and development simplicity. So we looked across existing IETF technologies and drafts which were not yet implemented in VPP and found out this new ILA technology (draft-herbert-nvo3-ila), which seemed to be a perfectly valid use-case for VPP used as a physical or virtual router.Jari ArkkoThu, 21 Jul 2016 13:13:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/hacking-packet-processing-ietf96/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-chair-and-iesg-report-ietf-96/This report is sent out before IETF-96 begins, in an effort to reduce reporting at the plenary and to provide an ability to discuss topics on list beforehand and afterwards. This reporting style follows what IAB has adopted in recent times; the plan is to provide only a brief summary in the in-person presentation at the plenary. If you have topics that you think the IESG should, or should already have, discussed, please send email to iesg@ietf.org with details and we'll get back to you.Jari ArkkoSun, 17 Jul 2016 12:55:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-chair-and-iesg-report-ietf-96/http://www.ietf.org/blog/berlin-network/I arrived in Berlin today, but there are many volunteers and support vendors who arrived days earlier to prepare for the meeting. It takes a lot of effort to setup the network, for instance. The team reports that the network is up and running, and that they have taken over the hotel network as well.Jari ArkkoFri, 15 Jul 2016 14:25:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/berlin-network/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-and-hackathon-coming/Today is the deadline for registering at the IETF with the early bird price. Do register!Jari ArkkoFri, 08 Jul 2016 09:07:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-and-hackathon-coming/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-systers/During nearly every IETF meeting since 1993, an informal gathering of women participants, the Systers, has taken place. We chose the name Systers as an answer to the late Anita Borg’s call for women in computer systems to support and celebrate each other.Allison MankinWed, 06 Jul 2016 14:32:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-systers/http://www.ietf.org/blog/working-together/In my experience it is important that we talk to each other, all of us, the techies, the operators, the economists, and the policy people. We live in a connected world that is developing very rapidly, and none of us have a full picture of everything. It benefits us to share our views and increase our understanding.Jari ArkkoThu, 23 Jun 2016 14:49:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/working-together/http://www.ietf.org/blog/wwwietforg-revamp-update/I wanted to provide a brief update on the the progress of the www.ietf.org website revamp project, which began in earnest last year and is scheduled to move into production by the end of this year.Greg WoodThu, 16 Jun 2016 14:51:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/wwwietforg-revamp-update/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-topics-berlin-meeting/I wanted to report what new ideas are going to be discussed at the meeting in Berlin in July.Jari ArkkoMon, 13 Jun 2016 14:57:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-topics-berlin-meeting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/long-term-ietf-evolution/In the midst of a day’s discussion about particular issue that troubles us with technology or something else, it can be difficult to focus on topics that have a longer timescale. As you probably remember, I had asked a design team to write a draft about various trends around us that affect the IETF.Jari ArkkoSun, 12 Jun 2016 14:58:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/long-term-ietf-evolution/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ntia-assessment-iana-stewardship-transition-proposal/Today the US Department of Commerce National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) announced that the Internet community’s proposal to transition the stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions meets the criteria it set out for the process.Jari Arkko, Andrew SullivanThu, 09 Jun 2016 15:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ntia-assessment-iana-stewardship-transition-proposal/http://www.ietf.org/blog/meeting-woes/If you have followed the IETF discussion list recently, you’ve probably seen a thread about a planned meeting in Singapore next year. Traditionally, the IETF announces meeting sites as they have been contracted. After announcing Singapore during IETF-95, we heard from our LGBTQ participants that laws in Singapore make their participation (particularly when they travel with their families) a concern.Jari ArkkoWed, 08 Jun 2016 15:02:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/meeting-woes/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-leadership-team-retreats/The IETF meetings are a busy time for many of the active participants, including members of our steering group or the IESG. Most of the time is spent in actual working group meetings, and there’s little time to reflect on broader issues. Every year the IESG finds some time for a “retreat” meeting to discuss topics with sufficient amount of time, to get to know the new ADs, do some team building, and so on.Jari ArkkoTue, 10 May 2016 15:06:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-leadership-team-retreats/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2016/The IESG has just had a two and half days of meetings in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These events are an important opportunity for our group to meet and discuss broader topics and IETF work in more depth than is possible during the regular IETF meetings.Jari ArkkoTue, 10 May 2016 13:27:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat-2016/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-95-summary/We had a great IETF 95 meeting in Buenos Aires a few weeks ago, with a lot of topics and many participants.Jari ArkkoTue, 26 Apr 2016 13:19:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-95-summary/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-getting-tls-13-working-browser/Over the last few years, the IETF community has been focused on improving and expanding the use of the technical foundations for Internet security.Nick SullivanSun, 17 Apr 2016 13:12:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon-getting-tls-13-working-browser/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ericsson-commits-support-ietf-long-term/I am pleased to announce that Ericsson has just signed a MoU with the ISOC (Internet Society) in which Ericsson commits to support the IETF in a ongoing fashion.Gonzalo CamarilloSat, 09 Apr 2016 13:09:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ericsson-commits-support-ietf-long-term/http://www.ietf.org/blog/team-help-regarding-harassment-concerns/In 2013, the IESG set the IETF anti-harassment policy. The IETF strives to create and maintain an environment in which people of many different backgrounds are treated with dignity, decency, and respect.Jari ArkkoFri, 01 Apr 2016 13:04:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/team-help-regarding-harassment-concerns/http://www.ietf.org/blog/bringing-together-open-standards-and-open-source-2016/A recent Internet Draft noted the growing Free and Open Source Software movement as a trend that the IETF, as a community, can participate in by helping open source and open standards work together.Barry LeibaThu, 31 Mar 2016 12:58:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/bringing-together-open-standards-and-open-source-2016/http://www.ietf.org/blog/buenos-dias-buenos-aires/This morning I arrived in Buenos Aires, where volunteers and staff have been busy preparing for our 95th IETF meeting. It looks like everything is ready, the network is up and the hotel facilities look great.Jari ArkkoThu, 31 Mar 2016 12:53:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/buenos-dias-buenos-aires/http://www.ietf.org/blog/interoperability-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, Andrew SullivanSat, 26 Mar 2016 13:50:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/interoperability-things-iot-semantic-interoperability-iotsi-workshop-2016/http://www.ietf.org/blog/bienvenidos-buenos-aires-welcome-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 ArkkoFri, 18 Mar 2016 13:45:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/bienvenidos-buenos-aires-welcome-buenos-aires/http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-data-models-industry-current-state-affairs/Just before the IETF 95 in Buenos Aires, let’s analyze the current state of affairs in the YANG Data Models world.Benoît ClaiseWed, 16 Mar 2016 13:29:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-data-models-industry-current-state-affairs/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 SullivanThu, 10 Mar 2016 13:27:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/transition-plan-enters-new-phase/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-research-groups-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 ArkkoSun, 06 Mar 2016 13:26:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-research-groups-ietf-95/http://www.ietf.org/blog/bofs-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 ArkkoWed, 02 Mar 2016 13:22:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/bofs-ietf-95/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoWed, 02 Mar 2016 13:19:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iotsi-workshop-position-papers/http://www.ietf.org/blog/non-technical-trends-affecting-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 ArkkoTue, 01 Mar 2016 13:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/non-technical-trends-affecting-ietf/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-working-groups-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 ArkkoWed, 17 Feb 2016 13:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-working-groups-ietf-95/http://www.ietf.org/blog/interoperable-internet-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 ArkkoThu, 14 Jan 2016 16:26:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/interoperable-internet-things/http://www.ietf.org/blog/30-years-engineering-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 ArkkoWed, 13 Jan 2016 15:04:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/30-years-engineering-internet/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoTue, 29 Dec 2015 15:42:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/year-2015-and-beyond/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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, Jari ArkkoFri, 04 Dec 2015 16:35:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-diversity-update/http://www.ietf.org/blog/yokohama-summary/Perhaps the topmost thing on my mind is how friendly and welcoming place Japan is for the IETF.Jari ArkkoTue, 10 Nov 2015 14:16:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/yokohama-summary/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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.Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:21:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-governance-forum/http://www.ietf.org/blog/hacking/The Yokohama IETF Hackathon is now in progress!Jari ArkkoSat, 31 Oct 2015 15:24:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/hacking/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoSat, 31 Oct 2015 09:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/code-sprinting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-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 ArkkoFri, 30 Oct 2015 15:28:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-yokohama-ietf-again/http://www.ietf.org/blog/visiting-w3c-meeting/Both the IETF and the W3C are meeting in Japan this month.Jari Arkko, Heather Flanagan, Barry Leiba, Karen O'DonoghueThu, 29 Oct 2015 15:20:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/visiting-w3c-meeting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/improving-security-internet-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, Jari ArkkoThu, 22 Oct 2015 15:48:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/improving-security-internet-diffie-hellman-case-study/http://www.ietf.org/blog/strange-familiar-dublin/We’re both at ICANN 54 in Dublin, and of course a big topic is the IANA transition.Jari Arkko, Andrew SullivanWed, 21 Oct 2015 11:24:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/strange-familiar-dublin/http://www.ietf.org/blog/icann54/The ICANN 54 meeting is now starting in Dublin, Ireland. On the agenda are various topics around the IANA stewardship transition.Jari ArkkoSat, 17 Oct 2015 11:27:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/icann54/http://www.ietf.org/blog/codesprinting-yokohama/横浜のIETFのためのプログラミング!Jari ArkkoThu, 08 Oct 2015 11:33:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/codesprinting-yokohama/http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-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 RooneyTue, 29 Sep 2015 09:35:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-marnew-workshop/http://www.ietf.org/blog/1984/One of the things that can make surveillance too easy is when the technology we use has weaknesses.Jari ArkkoFri, 25 Sep 2015 10:05:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/1984/http://www.ietf.org/blog/encryption-and-network-management/MaRNEW 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 ArkkoThu, 24 Sep 2015 13:21:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/encryption-and-network-management/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoFri, 11 Sep 2015 13:24:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/experiment-ethics-and-privacy/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoThu, 10 Sep 2015 13:26:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/onion/http://www.ietf.org/blog/aiming-standardized-high-quality-royalty-free-video-codec-remove-friction-video-over-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 RoachTue, 01 Sep 2015 13:33:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/aiming-standardized-high-quality-royalty-free-video-codec-remove-friction-video-over-internet/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoFri, 21 Aug 2015 14:52:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-93-summary/http://www.ietf.org/blog/full-iana-transition-proposal/The combined proposal from three communities has today gone out from the IANA Transition Coordination Group. This is important.Jari ArkkoFri, 31 Jul 2015 14:25:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/full-iana-transition-proposal/http://www.ietf.org/blog/birthday-ietf-meeting/Today’s blog post is a story from Adam Roach that he had originally shared on social media.Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:21:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/birthday-ietf-meeting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoSat, 18 Jul 2015 14:20:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/network-and-meeting-rooms-are-ready/http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-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 ArkkoFri, 17 Jul 2015 14:19:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-prague/http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-90/The 90th IETF starts next Sunday in Toronto, Canada. Canada is one of our favourite places to meet at.Jari ArkkoFri, 17 Jul 2015 11:09:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-90/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-update-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 ArkkoTue, 07 Jul 2015 14:17:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-update-icann-53/http://www.ietf.org/blog/sudden-changes-and-ipv6-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 ArkkoSun, 05 Jul 2015 14:15:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/sudden-changes-and-ipv6-everyone/http://www.ietf.org/blog/buenos-aires-alla-vamos/What will our first meeting next year be like?Jari ArkkoFri, 03 Jul 2015 14:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/buenos-aires-alla-vamos/http://www.ietf.org/blog/draft-deadlines-and-exceptions/Before an IETF meeting, we sometimes receive a few requests to extend the deadlines related to Internet Draft submissions.Jari ArkkoThu, 02 Jul 2015 14:12:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/draft-deadlines-and-exceptions/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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.Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:11:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/caris-workshop-summary-and-reflection/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ideas-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.Nalini Elkins, Jari Arkko, Mirjam KuehneMon, 08 Jun 2015 14:09:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ideas-ietf-education/http://www.ietf.org/blog/code-sprint-ietf-93/We will once again have a Code Sprint in Prague prior to IETF-93.Jari ArkkoTue, 02 Jun 2015 14:08:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/code-sprint-ietf-93/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ideas-ietf-93/This is a good time to submit more new proposals for the IETF!Jari ArkkoTue, 02 Jun 2015 14:07:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-ideas-ietf-93/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoThu, 21 May 2015 14:06:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iesg-retreat/http://www.ietf.org/blog/netflow-ipfix-psamp-13-years-standardization-explained/The first flow-related BoF (birds of a feather) took place in London in summer 2001 during the IETF meeting 51.Benoît ClaiseWed, 20 May 2015 14:05:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/netflow-ipfix-psamp-13-years-standardization-explained/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoSun, 17 May 2015 14:04:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-hackathon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoTue, 05 May 2015 14:03:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-organisations-coordination-meeting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/retreats-2015/Every year, IETF’s leadership groups (IAB, IESG, IAOC) meet for retreats. This year all the three groups meet in London.Jari ArkkoMon, 04 May 2015 14:01:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/retreats-2015/http://www.ietf.org/blog/end-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 MoriartyThu, 30 Apr 2015 14:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/end-end-message-encryption-can-it-be-done/http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-security-vs-quantum-computing/One of the great scientific challenges of our time is the construction of a practical quantum computer.Russ Housley, David McGrewWed, 22 Apr 2015 13:56:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-security-vs-quantum-computing/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoMon, 20 Apr 2015 13:55:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-protocol-parameters-explained/http://www.ietf.org/blog/plurilingue-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, Alvaro RetanaSun, 19 Apr 2015 13:53:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/plurilingue-ietf/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 SparksWed, 15 Apr 2015 13:46:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-datatracker-ui/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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, Alvaro RetanaWed, 15 Apr 2015 13:43:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/monikielinen-ietf/http://www.ietf.org/blog/rfc-1/Today marks the 46th anniversary of RFC 1.Jari ArkkoTue, 07 Apr 2015 13:42:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/rfc-1/http://www.ietf.org/blog/thoughts-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 ArkkoMon, 30 Mar 2015 13:40:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/thoughts-ietf-92/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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.Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:03:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-internet-engineering-steering-group-and-internet-architecture-board-members-selected/http://www.ietf.org/blog/coordinating-incident-response-internet-scale-caris/Coordinating incident response at Internet scale as a concept sounds fabulous, but can we achieve it? What will it take?Kathleen MoriartySat, 21 Mar 2015 14:38:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/coordinating-incident-response-internet-scale-caris/http://www.ietf.org/blog/behind-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 ArkkoFri, 20 Mar 2015 14:36:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/behind-scenes/http://www.ietf.org/blog/10-days-ietf-92/There is just 10 days until our next meeting begins, in Dallas, Texas. This is our third visit to DallasJari ArkkoWed, 11 Mar 2015 14:33:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/10-days-ietf-92/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-tools-and-dallas/We will once again have a Code Sprint, now in Dallas prior to IETF-92.Jari ArkkoTue, 10 Mar 2015 14:19:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-tools-and-dallas/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ensuring-continuity-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, Russ HousleySun, 22 Feb 2015 14:16:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ensuring-continuity-iana-registries/http://www.ietf.org/blog/http2-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, Barry LeibaWed, 18 Feb 2015 14:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/http2-approved/http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-proposals-ietf-92/The deadline for submitting proposals for new working groups for IETF-92 is approaching fast.Jari ArkkoTue, 03 Feb 2015 14:12:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-proposals-ietf-92/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 HousleyTue, 03 Feb 2015 14:10:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/semi-workshop/http://www.ietf.org/blog/dart-moving-rapidly-need-solution-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, David L. BlackMon, 26 Jan 2015 14:08:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/dart-moving-rapidly-need-solution-webrtc/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoFri, 16 Jan 2015 14:03:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-turns-29/http://www.ietf.org/blog/taking-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.Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:01:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/taking-step-towards-iana-transition/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoFri, 28 Nov 2014 14:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-iana-transition-proposal-last-call/http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-really-takes-industry/Just after the IETF 90 meeting last July, I posted this “YANG Takes Off in the Industry” blog.Benoît ClaiseThu, 27 Nov 2014 13:58:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-really-takes-industry/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoFri, 21 Nov 2014 13:57:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-91-summary/http://www.ietf.org/blog/mac-privacy/This week at IETF91 we carried out an experiment to randomize Wi-Fi MAC addresses of users to improve privacy.Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:56:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/mac-privacy/http://www.ietf.org/blog/exploring-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 ArkkoSun, 09 Nov 2014 13:54:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/exploring-ietf/http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-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 ArkkoSat, 08 Nov 2014 13:53:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-91/http://www.ietf.org/blog/getting-visas-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, Chris Griffiths, Michael RichardsonSat, 08 Nov 2014 13:44:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/getting-visas-ietf-meeting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/networks-paradise-or-its-christmas-noc/The network for the IETF is a bit of a unique beast.Jim MartinFri, 07 Nov 2014 13:43:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/networks-paradise-or-its-christmas-noc/http://www.ietf.org/blog/honolulu-ietf-hot-topics/The IETF meeting in Honolulu starts a week from now.Jari ArkkoSat, 01 Nov 2014 13:40:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/honolulu-ietf-hot-topics/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-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 ArkkoThu, 23 Oct 2014 11:46:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-icann-51/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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.Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:44:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/hawaii-bof-proposals-due-soon/http://www.ietf.org/blog/hawaii-code-sprint/We will once again have a Code Sprint in Honolulu prior to IETF-91.Jari ArkkoFri, 19 Sep 2014 11:42:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/hawaii-code-sprint/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoWed, 10 Sep 2014 11:41:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-transition-update/http://www.ietf.org/blog/celebrating-importance-openstand/The OpenStand approach to creating global standards has never been more relevant—or important—than it is today.Russ HousleyThu, 28 Aug 2014 11:40:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/celebrating-importance-openstand/http://www.ietf.org/blog/mailing-lists-what-works-what-doesnt/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 MoriartyMon, 18 Aug 2014 11:37:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/mailing-lists-what-works-what-doesnt/http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-takes-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.Benoît ClaiseThu, 31 Jul 2014 11:35:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/yang-takes-industry/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-90-summary/IETF-90 is over and I wanted to provide a summary of what I saw in the meeting.Jari ArkkoTue, 29 Jul 2014 11:38:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-90-summary/http://www.ietf.org/blog/robots-are-taking-over-ietf/We have built a lot of support for remote attendance in the IETF, but this week I saw something new.Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/robots-are-taking-over-ietf/http://www.ietf.org/blog/plan-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 ArkkoFri, 25 Jul 2014 11:12:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/plan-iana/http://www.ietf.org/blog/icann-and-transition-ntias-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 ArkkoWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:07:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/icann-and-transition-ntias-stewardship/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoTue, 17 Jun 2014 11:05:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-90-bofs/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-90-bof-deadline-coming/New IETF work begins often as a proposed new working group, through something called a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session.Jari ArkkoThu, 05 Jun 2014 11:04:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-90-bof-deadline-coming/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoThu, 22 May 2014 10:59:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/retreat-and-lacnic/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoFri, 02 May 2014 10:58:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/netmundial-summary/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-changes-process/I have previously talked about the upcoming changes at IANA.Jari ArkkoThu, 01 May 2014 10:56:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-changes-process/http://www.ietf.org/blog/netmundial/The two-day NETmundial conference that starts on Wednesday. Me, Russ, and several other IETFers are attending this event.Sun, 20 Apr 2014 10:52:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/netmundial/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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. Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:51:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/new-tlds/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-changes/Two weeks ago there was an announcement from the US government regarding their role in managing IANA.Jari ArkkoTue, 01 Apr 2014 10:49:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana-changes/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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.Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:09:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-technical-leaders-welcome-iana-globalization-progress/http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-89-videos/I wanted to share two excellent videos in this post. Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:45:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-89-videos/http://www.ietf.org/blog/web-anniversary/Today I would like to celebrate the anniversaries of the World Wide Web (25 years) and W3C (20 years).Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:41:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/web-anniversary/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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.Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:40:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-89-summary/http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-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.Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:38:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-89/http://www.ietf.org/blog/views-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).Sun, 09 Feb 2014 11:35:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/views-internet-technology-adoption/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ChairAlissa CooperTue, 28 Jan 2014 11:34:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/celebrating-data-privacy-day/http://www.ietf.org/blog/http-20/I wanted to draw attention to Mark Nottingham’s excellent blog article about strengthening HTTP.Jari ArkkoThu, 09 Jan 2014 11:31:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/http-20/http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana/In this article I wanted to highlight an important but often hidden part in the IETF ecosystem: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).Jari ArkkoFri, 03 Jan 2014 11:29:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/iana/http://www.ietf.org/blog/2013-review/The last days of the year seems like a good opportunity to reflect on some of things that happened during 2013.Jari ArkkoMon, 30 Dec 2013 11:06:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/2013-review/http://www.ietf.org/blog/we-will-strengthen-internet/Wow. What a week!Jari ArkkoFri, 08 Nov 2013 11:04:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/we-will-strengthen-internet/http://www.ietf.org/blog/les-leaders-en-ingenierie-decident-de-mettre-jour-des-normes-afin-dameliorer-la-confidentialite-et-la-securite-sur-internet/L’IETF a suscité un large consensus pour l’amélioration de la sécurité des protocoles Internet en réponse à la surveillance omniprésenteThu, 07 Nov 2013 15:14:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/les-leaders-en-ingenierie-decident-de-mettre-jour-des-normes-afin-dameliorer-la-confidentialite-et-la-securite-sur-internet/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 generalizadaThu, 07 Nov 2013 15:11:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/destacados-ingenieros-coinciden-en-que-hay-que-actualizar-las-normas-para-mejorar-la-seguridad-y-privacidad-en-internet/http://www.ietf.org/blog/leading-engineers-agree-upgrade-standards-improve-internet-privacy-and-security/IETF reaches broad consensus to improve the security of Internet protocols to respond to pervasive surveillanceThu, 07 Nov 2013 15:10:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/leading-engineers-agree-upgrade-standards-improve-internet-privacy-and-security/http://www.ietf.org/blog/strengthening-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, Stephen Farrell, Sean TurnerWed, 06 Nov 2013 11:03:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/strengthening-internet/http://www.ietf.org/blog/piloting-university-outreach-programme/In Berlin, you may have noticed many students among the IETF participants. Many of them were brought to the IETF by a pilot university outreach programme, run by ISOC with 15 universities in Germany and Austria.Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/piloting-university-outreach-programme/http://www.ietf.org/blog/network/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 ArkkoSat, 02 Nov 2013 10:59:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/network/http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-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 ArkkoWed, 30 Oct 2013 10:58:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-88/http://www.ietf.org/blog/huawei-hosts-88th-internet-engineering-task-force-meeting/More than 1200 top engineers and technologists will assemble to advance the development of open Internet standardsTue, 29 Oct 2013 15:06:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/huawei-hosts-88th-internet-engineering-task-force-meeting/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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.Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/future-identifiers/http://www.ietf.org/blog/plenary-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.Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:55:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/plenary-internet-hardening/http://www.ietf.org/blog/speeches/I visited the RIPE meeting and IGF meetings recently, and wanted to post two speeches that I held in these events.Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:54:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/speeches/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoThu, 19 Sep 2013 09:52:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/china/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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.Sat, 07 Sep 2013 09:50:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/security-and-pervasive-monitoring/http://www.ietf.org/blog/vancouver/It seems like yesterday when we were in Berlin, but I wanted to highlight that our Vancouver meeting is coming up soon.Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:48:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/vancouver/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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. Wed, 07 Aug 2013 09:47:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/meeting-summary/http://www.ietf.org/blog/diverse-ietf/I wanted to return to a topic that we have talked about before: increasing diversity at the IETF.Jari ArkkoMon, 29 Jul 2013 09:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/diverse-ietf/http://www.ietf.org/blog/role-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.Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/role-working-groups/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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. Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/different-internet/http://www.ietf.org/blog/web-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.Jari ArkkoMon, 15 Jul 2013 09:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/web-things/http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-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 ArkkoFri, 12 Jul 2013 09:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-87/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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.Mon, 13 May 2013 09:18:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/permissionless-innovation/http://www.ietf.org/blog/balancing-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.Wed, 01 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/balancing-process/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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.Jari ArkkoWed, 17 Apr 2013 09:13:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/diversity/http://www.ietf.org/blog/bits-n-bites-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.Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/bits-n-bites-video/http://www.ietf.org/blog/bits-n-bites-ietf-86/I was asked to discuss some of the work that the IETF is doing with their Bits-N-Bites program, and some of the demos and lab work we did at IETF86 in Orlando this past week.Chris GriffithsSun, 17 Mar 2013 11:00:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/bits-n-bites-ietf-86/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 peopleWed, 13 Mar 2013 15:04:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/internet-engineering-task-force-and-internet-architecture-board-announce-new-leadership-teams/http://www.ietf.org/blog/running-code-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.Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:23:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/running-code-ietf-86/http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-86/I would like to welcome you all to Orlando, where the 86th IETF meeting starts on Sunday!Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:29:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/welcome-ietf-86/http://www.ietf.org/blog/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 ArkkoSat, 02 Mar 2013 08:32:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-challenges/http://www.ietf.org/blog/chairs-blog/Welcome to a new publication from the IETF, a blog from the (incoming) IETF chair!Jari ArkkoFri, 22 Feb 2013 09:21:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/chairs-blog/http://www.ietf.org/blog/leading-global-standards-organizations-endorse-openstand-principles-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 StandardsSun, 12 Aug 2012 14:02:00 +0000http://www.ietf.org/blog/leading-global-standards-organizations-endorse-openstand-principles-drive-innovation-and-borderless-commerce/