This week  the 101st meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is taking place in London, UK.
What: IETF 101
Where: London, UK
When: March 17-23 2018
Agenda: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/agenda.html
Remote participation: https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/101/remote/
Mailing lists: https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/ietf-meeting-mailing-lists/
Twitter #ietf101
Rough Guides :
Routing Infrastructure Security Resilience
Identity, Privacy, and Encryption
Tutorial
View on YouTube:Â https://youtu.be/aCuT3Z71cew
In addition, for newcomers, a series of videos by Scott Bradner is available at http://bit.ly/ietfnewcomers (closed captioned)
The Internet Society is inviting applications for its Fellowship to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The Fellowship programme allows technologists, engineers and researchers from emerging and developing economies to attend an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting.
As you know, the IETF is the Internet’s premier standards-making body, responsible for the development of protocols used in IP-based networks. IETF participants represent an international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers involved in the technical operation of the Internet and the continuing evolution of Internet architecture.
Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive application process. The current selection round is for the following:
* IETF 101, March 17-23, 2018, London, United Kingdom
Information of the IETF fellowship programme (including expectations, selection criteria, etc.) can be found at:Â bit.ly/2xtyGSE
The application links for the Fellowship are as follows:
- First-Time Fellows (individuals who have never been awarded an Internet Society Fellowship to the IETF)
- Returning Fellows (individuals who have previously been awarded an Internet Society Fellowship to the IETF)
Before applying for the Internet Society Fellowship to the IETF 101 Meeting in London, please read the self-assessment guide and ensure that you are able to satisfy the requirements of the checklist.
Applications will close on 3 December, 2017 and successful candidates will be notified on 22 December, 2017.
We encourage you to apply for this opportunity or pass this information about the programme to individuals in your network that have a keen interest in the open standards development activities of the IETF.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Niel Harper at harper@isoc.org.
The IETF 97 Operations, Administration, and Technical Plenary takes place on Wednesday, 16 Nov 2016 in Seoul,Korea. The agenda includes: Brief updates on hot topics; Jonathan B. Postel Award; Technical plenary: Attacks Against the Architecture. Remote participation is available via Meetecho, and the meetecho will be relayed via the Internet Society Livestream Channel. There will also be a webcast via the IETF YouTube Channel.
What: IETF 97 Operations, Administration, and Technical Plenary
Where: Seoul, Korea
When: Wednesday, 16 Nov 2016 16:40-19:10 KST | 07:40-10:10 UTC
Agenda: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/97/agenda/ietf/
Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ietf97
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPaaRaNxIY4
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/IETF97
On Tuesday April 5 2016 at 13:45 UTC the Internet Society will present a briefing Public Policy and Internet Technology Development at IETF 95 in Buenos Aires. A panel session will identify the important issues for Internet public policy makers generally and the Latin American region in particular. We will discuss the relevance of the IETF to their work. In particular we will address the following questions: What are the high priority issues for Internet policy makers today? Why are policy makers interested in the work of the IETF?Where does the work of the IETF and Public Policy intersect? What could/should be done to improve two-way dialogue between technologists and public policy officials? Panelists:
Fred Baker, Cisco Fellow; Dilawar Grewal; Nelson Guillén Bello, Dominican Republic; Raul Lazcano Moyano, Head of Regulatory Division, SUBTEL, Chile
Tim Polk, Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy. Livestream is below:
View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ietf95
Twitter: #isoc + #ietf95 http://bit.ly/isocietf95
The 93rd meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is underway in Prague, Czech Republic. Today Thursday 23 July 2015 two of the sessions will webcast live on the Internet Society’s livestream channel – 1) the Administrative Plenary – and 2) the Thursday Lunch Speaker Series which has the title Recent Advances in Machine Learning and Their Application to Networking. Details below.
What: IETF93 Administrative Plenary
Where: The Hilton Prague
When: Thursday, 23 July 2015 9:00am-11:30am CEST | 07:00-09:30 UTC | 03:00-05:30 EDT
Agenda: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/93/agenda/iesg/
Webcast IPv4: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/IETF93AdministrativePlenary
Webcast IPv4/IPv6: https://youtu.be/6iQibfLHtC8
Twitter: #ietf93Â + admin
What: Thursday Lunch Speaker Series
Where: The Hilton Prague
When: Thursday, 23 July 2015 12:00am-12:45am CEST | 10:00-10:45 UTC | 06:00-06:45 EDT
Agenda: http://www.internetsociety.org/internet-society-briefing-panel-ietf-93
Webcast IPv4: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/IETF93LunchPresentation
Webcast IPv4/IPv6: https://youtu.be/uodn7y6iCh4
Twitter: #ietf93 + #machinelearning
The 93rd meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is underway in Prague, Czech Republic. On Tuesday June 21 2015 two of the sessions were webcast live on the Internet Society’s livestream channel – 1) the Technical Plenary – with the main topic of vehicular communications – but which includes an appearance by ITU Secretary General Houlin Zhao – and 2) the Internet Society Briefing Panel which has the title Tackling Connectivity Diversity: Protocol Challenges for Constrained Radio Networks and Devices. Details below.
IETF93 Technical Plenary
View on YouTube: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/IETF93TechnicalPlenary
View on Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_kdzPN2zGY
Twitter: #ietf93 + @intarchboard
Internet Society Briefing Panel
View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R8lMCHc5xnQ?t=9m22s
Twitter: #ietf93 + @internetsociety
[By Gareth Halfacree – Republished from bit-tech]
The IETF HTTP Working Group has officially approved the HTTP/2 specification, bringing the biggest change to the web since the launch of HTTP/1.1 back in 1999.
The HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) underpins the web, but has been relatively stagnant since 1999 when the publication of RFC2616 formalised the current version 1.1 of the standard. While HTTP/1.1 has served the web well over the years, it has failed to keep up with the increasing power of modern computing. Traffic is restricted to a set number of connections which fail to make use of modern high-bandwidth connectivity and massively-concurrent processing capabilities. Alternative protocols, like Google’s SPDY, show that there is definite room for improvement with up to 64 per cent performance boosts available with purely software changes.
The need for an alternative to HTTP has been obviated with the Internet Engineering Task Force’s announcement that HTTP/2 has now been approved as a formal standard. Google itself pledged its support for the fledgling standard earlier this month when it announced the retirement of SPDY, its own protocol for speeding up web traffic. ‘Since most of the benefits [of SPDY] are present in HTTP/2, it’s time to say goodbye,’ developer Chris Bentzel wrote at the time.
HTTP/2’s improvements include a reduction in blocking connections, SPDY-like connection multiplexing to decrease the number of individual connections while increasing the number of page items that can be loaded at any one time, header compression, and ‘cache pushing,’ all of which combine to offer considerable improvements in performance both at server and client sides. While it uses the same application programming interface (API) calls as HTTP/1.1, it is a binary rather than text standard – which makes it unsuitable for selected edge-case scenarios such as manual connection debugging.
While companies like Google are already working on support for HTTP/2, the technology won’t see active use in the wild until it’s an official standard. The IETF’s Internet Engineering Steering Group’s approval of the protocol is the first step. ‘The IESG has formally approved the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications, and they’re on their way to the RFC Editor, where they’ll soon be assigned RFC numbers, go through some editorial processes, and be published,‘ wrote IETF HTTP Working Group chair Mark Nottingham in a blog post on the matter. Nottingham also deflected criticism over Google’s involvement in the process, stating that ‘while a few have painted Google as forcing the [SPDY] protocol upon us, anyone who actually interacted with [Google’s] Mike [Belshe] and Roberto [Peon] in the group knows that they came with the best of intent, patiently explaining the reasoning behind their design, taking in criticism, and working with everyone to evolve the protocol.‘
The formal HTTP/2 RFC is expected to be published within weeks, rather than months, at which point browser and server developers will begin rolling out support for the standard.
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Today, Thursday July 24 2014, in the IETF 90 version of the IETF Thursday Speaker Series, Erik Dahlman will address the topic of 5G. Discussions on 5G wireless access have rapidly intensified during the latest two years. 5G wireless access is seen as the long-term enabler of the overall networked society, not only providing enhanced mobile broadband access but being a tool to provide wireless connectivity for any kind of application. This speech will provide an overview of the state of 5G efforts around the world. We will discuss the specific requirements and challenges being identified for 5G wireless access and the different technology components and alternatives being considered. Also outlined will be a possible time schedule for 5G in ITU and 3GPP. The session will be webcast live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
What: Fifth Generation (5G) Wireless
Where: IETF 90 in Toronto
When: Thursday July 24 2014 Noon EDT, 16:00 UTC
Webcast: https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/IETF90
Google+: https://plus.google.com/events/civqq2apu9cq4pdg63n6h61lq2s
Twitter: #5G
On Tuesday March 4 2014 the ISOC UK England chapter presented “Parliament meets Internet. Surveillance, the digital economy & the Open Internet.†at the UK House of Parliament. Speakers included Jari Arkko – Chair of the IETF, and Kathy Brown – CEO of the Internet Society, Members of Parliament from all 3 major UK parties, plus UK Internet experts. Video is webex, so not high quality,
View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/Z_3RO3vJ8ug
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/ybTuCXlZqLxK/
Audio: https://isoc-ny.org/misc/parliament_meets_internet_2014-03-04.mp3
Video: https://isoc-ny.org/misc/parliament_meets_internet_2014-03-04.mp4
Twitter: @ISOCUKEngland | #parlietf
This week  the 89th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is taking place in London, England. As in the past, the Internet Society has published our “Rough Guide to IETF 89“. This document reflects our interests and what we see as the important topics related to the technology priorities we have as an organization.  There is some further commentary from ISOC Chief Internet Technology Officer Leslie Daigle at her ‘ London Calling‘ blog post. As always there are plenty of opportunities for remote participation that will allow you to listen to what is going on and to provide comments.
What: IETF 89
Where: London, England
When: March 2-7, 2014
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/89/
Remote participation: http://www.ietf.org/meeting/89/remote-participation.html
Google event: https://plus.google.com/115114278816279309050/
Twitter #ietf89
Technical Plenary
Today, Monday March 3 2014, from 17:50-19:50 UTC (12:50pm-2:50pm NYC time), the Technical Plenary will focus on the topic of “Bitcoin and Internet Payment Systems”. Presentations include: “Internet-Scale Payment Systems: Ecosystems & Challenges” by Malcolm Pearson from Microsoft China,; and “Identity, Payments, and Bitcoin: Big Changes Ahead” by Steve Kirsch from OneID. The plenary will be webcast live via YouTube..
View on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUaAcf4gLto
Live text transcription: www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=03Mar14
Pearson Slides: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/89/slides/slides-89-iab-techplenary-5.pdf
Kirsch Slides: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/89/slides/slides-89-iab-techplenary-6.pptx
Google+ event: https://plus.google.com/events/cbo5d0mk47obtnre3ukd42tjdg4
facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1483603595193821/
ISOC @ IETF89
Tomorrow, Tuesday March 4 2014, the Internet Society Briefing Panel on the topic of “Evolution of end-to-end: why the Internet is not like any other network” will happen from 11:45-12:45 UTC (0645-0745 EST). It will also be webcast live via YouTube.
View on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkyqoHgA2Tk&feature=share
Slides: http://ow.ly/uduvG
Google+ event: https://plus.google.com/events/c1gfue9n0i7f5hanjfu6csgeo3g
On Tuesday November 5 2013, at 11:45am PST the Internet Society presented a briefing – IPv6 — What Does Success Look Like? at IETF 88 in Vancouver, Canada. The briefing took the form of a panel, moderated by Internet Society Chief Internet Technical Officer Leslie Daigle, comprising John Brzozowski, Comcast Cable; Erik Nordmark, Arista; and Chris Palmer, Microsoft. The purpose of this panel was to review recent progress in IPv6 deployment, and begin to address the question of what “good” looks like for IPv6. It was webcast live by Internet Society’s Deploy 360 team. Video is below. The action starts at 2:59.
View on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b70UZAmUIU4
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/dUpb7XLjyHSQ/
Twitter: @isoctech
This coming week  the 88th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is taking place in Vancouver, Canada. As in the past, the Internet Society has published our “Rough Guide to IETF 88“. This document reflects our interests and what we see as the important topics related to the technology priorities we have as an organization.  There is some further commentary from ISOC Chief Internet Technology Officer Leslie Daigle at ‘A Close Encounter of the Standards Kind‘. As always there are plenty of opportunities for remote participation that will allow you to listen to what is going on and to provide comments.
What: IETF 88
Where: Vancouver, Canada
When: Nov 3-8, 2013
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/88/
Remote participation: http://www.ietf.org/meeting/88/remote-participation.html
Twitter ietf88
IETF 87 in Berlin, Germany, wrapped up on August 2, 2013. It was the biggest IETF ever and generally considered a big success. IETF Chair Jari Arkko recently published his summary of IETF 87 on the IETF Blog highlighting what he felt were some of the more important aspects. Dan York of the Ineternet Society’s Deploy360team interviewed Jari on his thoughts about the meeting. Video is below. It has English subtitles.
View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/g_pmGTZYldU
Translate on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/uhdDo6789178
Twitter: #ietf87
Today, Tuesday July 30 2013 the Internet Society will present a briefing panel at IETF 87 in Berlin, topic: “Improving Internet Experience: All together, now.” As Internet use and user expectations grow, it is natural that network and service providers, as well as software developers, are all looking to provide the best experience possible for their users and customers. However, performance issues (especially those related to transient congestion) tend to have collateral effects. This is a case where local optimization strategies may, in fact, not lead to globally optimal network performance for a given activity. In fact, server or client software developers’ assumptions about network conditions may lead to disastrously wrong choices in managing network traffic if software elsewhere in the network is making different and countervailing assumptions and choices.This panel will explore some of the different approaches being developed, between website, network transport and server developers, their assumptions about network performance and potential collision of strategies. Panelists will also further elaborate existing work in measuring and developing (and deploying!) standards-based transport layer strategies for robustly improving overall performance. Speakers include Stuart Cheshire of Apple, Jason Livingood of Comcast, and Patrick McManus of Mozilla. Internet Society Chief Internet Technology Officer Leslie Daigle will moderate. The session will be webcast live via the Internet Society livestream channel and an audio feed will also be available.
What: Internet Society Briefing Panel @ IETF 87 – “Improving Internet Experience: All together, now.”
Where: InterContinental Hotel, Berlin, Germany
When: Tuesday, 30 July 2013 11:45 am-12:45 pm CEST | 0945-1045 UTC | 0545-0645 EDT
Program: http://www.internetsociety.org/internet-society-briefing-panel-ietf-87
Webcast: https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/ietf87isocbriefing
Audio stream: http://www.verilan.com/isoc.m3u
Twitter: @InternetSociety
This coming week  the 87th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is taking place in Berlin, Germany. As in the past, the Internet Society has published our “Rough Guide to IETF 87“. This document reflects our interests and what we see as the important topics related to the technology priorities we have an an organization.  Our Deploy360 team will be participating in the working groups related to IPv6, DNSSEC, and  routing resiliency and security. There are plenty of opportunities for remote participation that you will allow you to listen to what is going on and to provide comments.
What: IETF 87
Where: Berlin, Germany
When: July 28-August 2, 2013
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/87/
Remote participation: http://www.ietf.org/meeting/87/remote-participation.html
Twitter ietf87
The 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is underway March 10 – 15, 2013, in Orlando, Florida. As usual the Internet Society has published a Rough Guide to topics of particular interest to members. At this IETF meeting, we are focusing our attention to the following broad categories:
Trust technologies; Authentication/Authorization; Infrastructure/Support; IPv6; Bandwidth. Notable sessions include the FCC’s Chief technolgist addressing the demise of POTS, an ISOC session on content (see separate post), and an IAB post-WCIT discussion.
What: IETF 86
Where: Orlando, Florida
When: March 10 – 15, 2013
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/86/
Remote Participation: http://www.ietf.org/meeting/86/remote-participation.html
Twitter: #IETF #IETF86
Association Management Solutions, LLC (AMS), who provide secretariat services for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), have also produced this joyful holiday video..
An article Moving Toward a Censorship-free Internet by Dr. Johan Pouwelse in the October 2012 IETF Journal follows up on a meeting at IETF84 in Vancouver that discussed various technical solutions to government Internet censorship of the kind seen in the Arab Spring.
Technologies include:
- Bluetooth Transfer – offline peer-to-peer.
- Musubi – distributed crypto-enabled smartphone IM app
- Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) – even via repeated bluetooth transfers..
- Twimight – Decentralized microblogging app for Android
- P2PSIP – peer-to-peer VOIP – an IETF standard, but with dubious security
- PPSP – peer-to-peer streaming protocol – serverless video streaming
What were the results of World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012? What measurements have we seen since that time? In this “ISOC @ IETF” briefing panel on July 31, 2012, at the IETF 84 meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, representatives of World IPv6 Launch participants gathered to share their information and data. The archived webex of the event can be seen below.
Moderator: Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer, Internet Society
Panelists:
John Brzozowski, Comcast
Lorenzo Colitti, Google
Mat Ford, Internet Society
Lee Howard, Time Warner Cable
George Michaelson, APNIC
Erik Nygren, Akamai
More info: http://www.internetsociety.org/isoc-panel-ietf-84
IETF 84 in Vancouver is rapidly approaching (29 July – 3 August 2012). Newcomers’ training and technical tutorials take place on Sunday (29 July), with the working group (WG), Birds of a Feather (BoF), and plenary sessions happening during the week.  Agenda is here. Remote participation details are here. The tools agenda does a great job of combining the two! Hashtag is IETF#84
Once again,the Internet Society is pleased to bring you a Rough Guide to the IETF 84 sessions most relevant to our current work.
At this IETF meeting, we are turning our attention to the following broad categories:
- Trust technologies
- Authentication/Authorization
- Infrastructure/Support
- IPv6
- Bandwidth
(All times are local, UTC -7 hours, EDT -3)
A new IETF non-working group email list has been created to discuss Data Set Identifier Interoperability (DSII).
Purpose: This list will be focused on the persistent identification of data sets that are shared. One primary use case will be the inter-relation of scientific data sets produced by different research teams; other use cases might include media developed by different sources and combined into a common collection. The first topic of discussion is expected to be permanent identifiers for data sets: their format, how they are assigned and resolved. This will draw from existing methods such as DOI, URN, PURL. Access policies based on identifiers, discovery, association of meta-data, and data integrity are expected to be later topics.
List address: dsii@ietf.org
Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dsii/
Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dsii
For additional information, please contact the list administrators.
The Internet Society Africa Regional Bureau is organizing the first ever Africa wide Internet Standards Forum that will take place during AfNOG-13 and AfriNIC-16 in Serekunda, Gambia on May 12th 2012 from 0900-1300UTC (0500-0900). The forum will also be streamed live on the online conferencing tool Webex.
The forum will discuss Internet standards and the role the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) plays in setting open Internet standards. African participation in IETF activities has been limited and this forum is an effort to encourage African participation in the IETF, especially for graduating class, Masters and Ph.D. level University students and instructors in order for Africa to play a role in the development of the Internet.
To participate, register at https://isoc.webex.com/isoc/j.php?ED=180521807&RG=1&UID=1368236882&RT=MiMzNA%3D%3D
More info: http://internetsociety.org/events/african-internet-standards-forum
The 82nd meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) takes place this week Nov 13-18 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan.
- Agenda
- Remote participation
- Twitter: #ietf
To fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Lawrence Lessig the Internet Society has appointed Jason Livingood, Executive Director, Internet Systems Engineering at Comcast Cable, to its Board Of Trustees.
Jason has served as co-chair of an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group and is the author of several RFCs. He is also an technical advisory board member of a security-related company, has several patents pending in his field, has recently served on a working group of the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC), is a member of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group’s (BITAG) Technical Working Group, and is a member of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The 81st meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) takes place this week July 24-29 2011 in Quebec.
- Agenda
- Remote participation
- Twitter: #ietf
Below is a Rough Guide to IETF 81’s hot topics, courtesy of Internet Society Director of Communications Greg Wood