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Rüdiger Geib takes the helm at Internet Engineering Task Force and Study Group 12
What happened The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) on November 21 appointed Rudiger Geib as Liaison Manager for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Study Group 12 (ITU-T SG12), the standardization arm of the International Telecommunication Union. This group focuses on…
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Jen Linkova receives the final Itojun Service Award at IETF 121
What happened At IETF 121 in Dublin, Jen Linkova received the final Itojun Service Award. She was honoured for her tireless work to make IPv6 deployable in enterprise networks. Her advocacy and contributions to refining IPv6 protocols in standards processes earned this…
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IETF takes major steps to enhance accessibility of RFC publications
RFCs are documents that are freely available for download, copying, publishing, displaying, and distribution. The goal of providing free access is to enable a wider audience to contribute to building a better internet. The IETF has announced a comprehensive review of the…
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IETF seeks community input on the second IASA2 retrospective draft
The draft is available for review from September 3 to September 30, 2024. Feedback can be submitted via email or through the IASA2 Retrospective GitHub repository. The IETF plans to revise the report based on the received feedback and release the final version during or before…
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IETF email service to experience a planned outage for infrastructure upgrade
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…
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IETF seeks feedback with a post-meeting survey for IETF 120
The IETF 120 meeting, which concluded earlier this month, brought together a diverse group of professionals, researchers, and stakeholders from the internet technology sector. The post-meeting survey is a crucial tool for the IETF, allowing organisers to assess various aspects of…
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What is the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)?
OUR TAKE:Many people compare IETF and W3C together. It can be said that IETF and W3C are the two major standards organizations in the Internet industry. There is no denying that the IETF and W3C are excellent organisations, and they are open standards. The IETF has a broader…
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IPv6 over networks of resource-constrained nodes
On March 22, 2024, L. Iannone, a researcher at Huawei Technologies France, presented a new approach called Path-Aware Semantic Addressing (PASA) for improving Internet connections in networks with limited resources. He confirmed that the main technical details have remained…
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How can Thailand solve its air quality and forest fire problems?
Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee has given a presentation on the SEA-HAZEMON Project at IETF 119. The SEA-HAZEMON Project is a real-time air quality monitoring and forest fire detection platform. Forest fires are an often unsung and misunderstood part of rural life around the world. But…
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IETF 119 officially kicks off in Brisbane
On March 16, 2024, IETF 119 officially began at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre in Brisbane, Australia. There were a total of 1286 registered entities at the conference, including 668 on site entities and 618 online entities. What’s for the very first day? The first…
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