The Internet Engineering Task Force: Making the Internet Work Better

Russ Housley IETF Chair Global IETF Community

1 Photos © Stonehouse Photographic IETF Working Groups http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/

133 Working Groups in: behave, httpbis,scim, l Applications tcpm, websec, iri, rmcat eai l Transport tls, jose, l Internet oauth, dane homenet, trill, lisp, dhc, l Operations and ccamp, pwe, pim 6lowpan, Management ospf, isis, mpls, sunset4, ntp pce, idr l Real-time Applications and Infrastructure clue, codec, 6renum, dime dispatch, rtcweb, dnsop l vipr, , payload l Security 2 Examples of IETF protocols l (DNS) l Email (IMAP, POP, and SMTP) l World Wide Web transport (HTTP) l (IPv4 and IPv6) l Instant Messaging (XMPP) l Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) l (OSPF) l (BGP) l Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) l Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

3 Mission of the IETF

Make the Internet work better by producing high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet.

4 Ethos of the IETF l Open standards process l Everyone is invited to participate at all levels l Our primary venue is email l All working and published documents are freely available online l One Internet l Open standards for a global Internet l Maximum interoperability and scalability l Avoid specialized protocols in different places l Contributions are judged on technical merits: rough consensus and running code 5 OpenStand Principles l Due process l Broad consensus l Transparency l Balance l Openness Case Study: Internationalized Domain Names for Applications

IDNA first Standard updated to proposed improve real-world in the IETF performance

1996 2008

2003 2010 IDNA standard Deployed in global Domain Name first published System

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Multiple standards in a single device l ITU-T: Codecs l ITU-R: Spectrum l IEEE: 802.11 l GSMA: 3G l IETF: TCP/IP l W3C: HTML l …

9 Thank You Russ Housley IETF Chair