APAN 54: Introducing the IETF

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Introducing the
IETF
Geoff Huston AM
APNIC

I’ll probably talk about:
• Some Background - The Rise of Open Networking
• The emergence of the IETF
• Kings, Voting and ...

About me and the IETF
• First RFC encounter: Implemented RFC 850 on Vax/VMS in 1985
• First IETF meeting: November 1989
• ...

In the Beginning…
• Work on digital data networking is probably as old as the teletype machine
of the 1940’s
• Early work ...

Emergence of the Internet
• Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn published a paper on the design of the
Internet Protocol in May 1974
• ...

Next Steps
Three events occurred at about the same time to push the Internet into
prominence:
• Digital Equipment gained m...

OSI
• There was a parallel effort to develop open networking tools that
became known as the Open Systems Interconnection p...

The IETF
• Was formed in acknowledgement that the US government agencies
were not going to be the sole funding agency for ...

The Tao of the IETF
Much has been borrowed from the research community:
• We participate as individuals, not corporates
• ...

Tristian Nitot, https://www.flickr.com/photos/nitot/8294413830

The Role of an IETF Standard
Specification
• An IETF standard specification is meant to provide sufficient guidance to
pro...

Today’s IETF
The effort is divided in many ways:
• The IETF LLC provides a corporate “home” for the various IETF activitie...

And there’s the IRTF
• The Internet can be looked at as an unfinished piece of work
• We are still learning how to do this...

The Role of Standards
• In a command economy goods are produced on order and in
accordance with the orchestrator of the ac...

IETF Failures
• Attempting to steer the course of the Internet through standards
actions
• NATs, IPv6, Security
• Losing t...

IETF Successes
• Open to individuals to participate by contribution
• Debate the idea not the person
• Your future leaders...

IETF Challenges
• Renewal
• Relevance
• Sustainability

Thank You !

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