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    IETF email service to experience a planned outage for infrastructure upgrade

    By Lia XuAugust 27, 2024No Comments3 Mins Read
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    • The IETF has scheduled a significant update to its email infrastructure, resulting in a planned outage on 27 August 2024.
    • All emails received during the outage will be queued and delivered after the transition. However, there is a possibility that some emails received during this period may not be recoverable.

    The IETF has scheduled an email service outage for 27 August 2024, from 1200 UTC to 1400 UTC, to upgrade its IT infrastructure. During this period, email delivery to addresses at ietf.org, iab.org, irtf.org, iesg.org, and rfc-editor.org will be paused. The transition, managed by Sirius, involves moving to a new cloud-based system with Amazon SES. While emails received during the outage will be delayed, some may not be recoverable. The IETF plans to provide an update by 1500 UTC on the same day.

    Key features of the outage

    IETF has announced a scheduled email service outage to facilitate a significant upgrade to its IT infrastructure. The planned disruption will commence at 1200 UTC on 27 August 2024 and is expected to last up to two hours, though the actual downtime is anticipated to be no longer than one hour. During this period, email delivery to addresses ending in ietf.org, iab.org, irtf.org, iesg.org, and rfc-editor.org, including associated email lists, will be paused.

    This transition will move our primary mail sending to be through Amazon SES. The relevant SPF records have already been updated. Further preparation is underway and expected to continue until just before the migration begins

    Robert Sparks, IETF tools project manager

    According to Robert Sparks, IETF tools project manager, “This transition will move our primary mail sending to be through Amazon SES. The relevant SPF records have already been updated. Further preparation is underway and expected to continue until just before the migration begins”. The interruption is part of a broader initiative to transition the IETF’s email processing systems to a new cloud-based infrastructure. As part of this transition, the IETF’s primary mail sending services will move to Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). Preparations for the transition, including updates to SPF records, have already been completed.

    About IETF

    The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), founded in 1986, is the premier standards development organisation (SDO) for the Internet. The IETF makes voluntary standards that are often adopted by Internet users, network operators, and equipment vendors, and it thus helps shape the trajectory of the development of the Internet. But in no way does the IETF control, or even patrol, the Internet.

    Amazon SES IETF email service standards development organisation
    Lia Xu

    Lia XU is an intern reporter at BTW Media covering tech and AI news. She graduated from Zhejiang normal university. Send tips to l.xu@btw.media.

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