ION Cape Town - IETF, Operational Experience, and Africa
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ION Cape Town, 8 September 2015: The Internet Society is working toward fostering a larger and more engaged network operator community around the IETF and protocol development work. Part of that work was a survey of network operators in 2014 and an Internet-Draft about its results. We’re also interested specifically in bringing more African engineers with operational experience into the IETF, and perhaps even bringing a physical IETF meeting to the continent of Africa within the next few years. We’ll outline some of our recent work and hope to make this an interactive session to learn from the local community how to encourage more IETF participation.
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ION Cape Town - IETF, Operational Experience, and Africa
- 1. Internet Society Bringing Internet Standards Development to Africa By Michuki Mwangi (ISOC) ION Cape Town
- 2. What is the Internet Society? The Internet Society (ISOC) is a cause-based organization that works with governments, industries, and others to ensure the technologies and policies that helped develop and evolve the Internet will continue into the future. Our programs cultivate an Internet that is open to everyone, everywhere and aim to ensure that it will continue to be a tool for creativity, innovation, and economic growth. MISSION: To promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world. VISION: The Internet is for everyone
- 3. Global Presence 100+ Chapters Worldwide 65,000+ Members and Supporters 145+ Organization Members 6 Regional Bureaus 18 Countries with ISOC Offices NORTH AMERICA LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN EUROPE AFRICA THE MIDDLE EAST ASIA OCTOBER 2013Chapters
- 4. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): Background
- 5. 5 Internet Engineering Task Force • “We make the Internet work better” • The mission of the IETF is to produce high quality, relevant technical and engineering documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet in such a way as to make the Internet work better. These documents include protocol standards, best current practices, and informational documents of various kinds. [RFC 3935]
- 6. Brief history of the IETF • First meeting held in January 1986 • 21 attendees at Linkabit in San Diego • Evolution from ARPA • Internet Configuration Control Board (ICCB) in 1979 • Internet Activities Board (1983) • Working Groups introduced at 5th meeting, Feb 1987 • Structure of IAB, IETF, IRTF set at 14th meeting, July 1989 • ISOC formed and set as organizational home in 1992 • International meetings since 1990 • First meeting outside US in 1990 (Vancouver) • First European meeting in 1993 (Amsterdam) • First Asian meeting in 2000 (Adelaide) • First Latin American meeting scheduled for 2016 (Buenos Aires) • There have been 92 IETF meetings as of March 2015
- 7. 7 IETF Participants • An open and international community Network designers Operators Vendors Researchers • Interested individuals People, not companies
- 8. 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Changed IETF composition and rolesAttendance Actual Avg. Vendor/International Research/Education primarily US
- 9. Africa: Shifting from Internet Consumers to Internet Contributors
- 10. IETF Awareness activities in Africa • ISOC IETF Fellowship • The ISOC IETF fellowship was introduced in 2006 with Alain Aina and Michuki Mwangi being the first fellows • 44 fellows from Africa have attended the IETF since 2006 • IETF awareness workshops in the African Region • AIS 2011 – Tanzania Workshop • Panel discussions on the importance of IETF. Session had over 30 participants • AIS 2012 – Gambia workshop • IETF Remote hubs in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya & Uganda • Total of 212 attendees between AIS and remote hubs • AIS 2013 – Zambia workshop • Discussions on the importance of IETF and how to participate. Event had 36 attendees • AIS 2014 – Djibouti • Update and discussions on IETF activities. Event had 40 attendees • IETF Fellowships to African Policy makers for the last 3 years
- 11. Africa’s contribution to Internet Standards Development • There is a small number of individuals actively involved with the IETF from Africa • In March 2015, RFC7479 authored by S. Moonesamy from Mauritius was published. • Others that have contributed to drafts that have latter been published as RFCs like Alan Barret, Alain Aina, etc • AfriNIC staff have also been actively involved in the IETF.
- 12. Improving Africa’s participation to IETF - Why? - Since it is being part of the future of the Internet - Africa is ready - It now has the critical mass of Internet experts to be part of IETF - How? - Participation in working groups - Participating to IETF meetings (face to face or remotely) - Bringing IETF meetings to Africa
- 13. Bringing an IETF meeting to Africa • The IAOC conducts “meeting preference surveys” during IETF meetings for selection of venue • The 2010 meeting survey showed that: • 44.8% of respondents were in favor of attending an IETF held in South or Central America • 39.8% of respondents were in favor of attending an IETF held in Africa • Why not Africa until now? • Not many participants from Africa in working groups • IETF participants pay their travel costs • Perception that Africa does not have the capacity to host an IETF meeting • Perception of lack of security
- 14. Bringing an IETF meeting to Africa Objective: • To successfully host the first IETF meeting in Africa in 2018 How ? • By growing the IETFers community in Africa • By mobilizing the Af* community around this objective • By changing the (false) perceptions
- 15. Next step – Community Mobilization • Establish a community based task-force to lead the efforts towards having first IETF meeting event in Africa • The task-force will define its scope and engage the technical community towards this goal • We are counting on the technical community’s support to become IETF ambassadors • The technical community can contribute by: • Creating awareness within your technical forums and institutions • Support the task-force efforts in identifying the local technical communities and institutions
- 16. We need your help ….
Editor's Notes
- The Internet Society: Encourages open development of standards, protocols, administration. Enables economic growth in developing countries through education and training Fosters participation and and develops new leaders in areas important to the evolution of the Internet. Provides reliable information about the Internet. Leads and facilitates discussion of issues that affect Internet evolution and developments. The Internet Society works globally, across the broad range of policy, technology, and development, which allows it to bring unique perspectives and insight about how to address some of the significant issues facing the Internet today.
- 100+ organization members Tens of thousands of individual members 90+ chapters worldwide Regional Bureaus: Africa, Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, North America, South & South East Asia
- The first IETF meeting was held in January 1986 at Linkabit in San Diego, with 21 attendees. The 4th IETF, held at SRI in Menlo Park in October 1986, was the first that vendors attended. The concept of Working Groups was introduced at the 5th IETF meeting at the NASA Ames Research Center in California in February 1987. The 7th IETF, held at MITRE in McLean, Virginia, in July 1987, was the first meeting with more than 100 attendees. The 14th IETF meeting was held at Stanford University in July 1989. It marked a major change in the structure of the IETF universe. The structure of the IAB (then the Internet Activities Board, now the Internet Architecture Board), which until that time oversaw many "task forces", was changed, leaving it with only two: the IETF and the IRTF. The IRTF is tasked to consider long-term research problems in the Internet. The IETF also changed at that time. After the Internet Society (ISOC) was formed in January 1992, the IAB proposed to ISOC that the IAB's activities should take place under the auspices of the Internet Society. During INET92 in Kobe, Japan, the ISOC Trustees approved a new charter for the IAB to reflect the proposed relationship. The IETF met in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in July 1993. This was the first IETF meeting held in Europe, and the US/non-US attendee split was nearly 50/50. The IETF first met in Asia (in Adelaide, Australia) in 2000. Currently, the IETF meets in North America, Europe, and Asia. The intention is to meet once a year in each region, although due to scheduling issues there are often more meetings in North America and fewer in Asia and Europe. The number of non-US attendees continues to be high — about 50%, even at meetings held in the United States. From: http://www.ietf.org/tao.html