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IETF Overview

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) provides a forum for working groups to coordinate technical development of new protocols. Its most important function is the development and selection of standards within the Internet protocol suite.

The IETF began in January 1986 as a forum for technical coordination by contractors for the then US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), working on the ARPANET, US Defense Data Network (DDN), and the Internet core gateway system. Since that time, the IETF has grown into a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.

The IETF mission includes:

Technical activities in the IETF are addressed within working groups. All working groups are organized roughly by function into seven areas. Each area is led by one or more Area Directors who have primary responsibility for that one area of IETF activity. Together with the Chair of the IETF/IESG, these Area Directors comprise the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).

Name Area Email
Russ Housley IETF Chair chair@ietf.org
Ronald Bonica Operations and Management Area rbonica@juniper.net
Stewart Bryant Routing Area stbryant@cisco.com
Gonzalo Camarillo Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area gonzalo.camarillo@ericsson.com
Benoit Claise Operations and Management Area bclaise@cisco.com
Ralph Droms Internet Area rdroms.ietf@gmail.com
Wesley Eddy Transport Area wes@mti-systems.com
Adrian Farrel Routing Area adrian@olddog.co.uk
Stephen Farrell Security Area stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie
Brian Haberman Internet Area brian@innovationslab.net
Russ Housley General Area housley@vigilsec.com
Barry Leiba Applications Area barryleiba@computer.org
Pete Resnick Applications Area presnick@qti.qualcomm.com
Robert Sparks Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area rjsparks@nostrum.com
Martin Stiemerling Transport Area martin.stiemerling@neclab.eu
Sean Turner Security Area turners@ieca.com

Liaison and ex-officio members include:

Olaf Kolkman IAB Chair iab-chair@iab.org
Danny McPherson IAB Liaison danny@tcb.net
Michelle Cotton IANA Liaison iana@iana.org
Sandy Ginoza RFC Editor Liaison rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org
Alexa Morris IETF Secretariat Liaison exec-director@ietf.org

The IETF has a Secretariat, which is managed by Association Management Solutions, LLC (AMS) in Fremont, California.The IETF Executive Director is Alexa Morris (exec-director@ietf.org).


Other personnel that provide full-time support to the Secretariat include:

Senior Meeting Planner Marcia Beaulieu
Project Manager Wanda Lo
Meeting Registrar Stephanie McCammon
Project Manager Cindy Morgan
Project Manager Amy Vezza

To contact the Secretariat, please refer to the addresses and URLs provided on the IETF Secretariat Web page.

The IETF also has a general Administrative Support Activity headed by the IETF Administrative Director, Ray Pelletier iad@ietf.org

The working groups conduct their business during the tri-annual IETF meetings, at interim working group meetings, and via electronic mail on mailing lists established for each group. The tri-annual IETF meetings are 4.5 days in duration, and consist of working group sessions, training sessions, and plenary sessions. The plenary sessions include technical presentations, status reports, and an open IESG meeting.

Following each meeting, the IETF Secretariat publishes meeting proceedings, which contain reports from all of the groups that met, as well as presentation slides, where available. The proceedings also include a summary of the standards-related activities that took place since the previous IETF meeting.

Meeting minutes, working group charters (including information about the working group mailing lists), and general information on current IETF activities are available on the IETF Web site at http://www.ietf.org.

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