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Summer 2006 – 66th IETF
July 9-14, 2006
Host: Ericsson
Location: Montreal, Canada
Autumn 2006 – 67th IETF
November 5-10, 2006
Host: TBD
Location TBD
Spring 2007 – 68th IETF
March 18-23, 2007
Host: TBD
Location: TBD
Summer 2007 – 69th IETF
July 22-27, 2007
Host: TBD
Location: TBD
Autumn 2007 – 70th IETF
December 2-7, 2007
Host: TBD
Location: TBD
Question: Why did you attend the IETF and how did you find out about it?
Wouter: I am working for NLnetLabs and my boss told me the IETF is a place where a lot of DNS-related topics are being discussed. So, I wanted to find out what is going on in this area.
Question: Is DNS your main area of expertise?
Question: John, you attended the first IETF Meeting. How did you get involved in the IETF?
Mike: In 1986 my boss was Mike Corrigan, who was the first chair of the IETF. I was working on the Defense Data Network Program along with Phill Gross. I was responsible for managing the development of the packet switches, the gateways and the terminal servers for the DDN (Defense Data Network). So, I saw this note about GADS (Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures) meeting in San Diego and decided to go.
Question: Why did you attend the IETF and how did you find out about it?
Jessy: I knew about the IETF before and I found about this meeting through my interest in interplanetary Internet and deep space communications. It turns out that this topic is being pursued under the delay-tolerant networking research group and they were meeting here this time. It happened to overlap with my university break.
Question: What are you studying?
Question: Bob, you attended the first IETF Meeting. How did you get involved in the IETF?
Q: How did you get involved in the IETF and what was your first IETF meeting?
Steve Crocker is also a Trustee on ISOC’s Board of Trustees and Chair of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee.
It’s a pleasure to be here and to talk about the IETF on its 20th anniversary and to reflect on the IETF as an institution and the whole process of creating protocols.
Question: Lixia, you attended the first IETF Meeting. How did you get involved in the IETF?
The IETF is, in effect, a standards making organization, and, like many other standards making organizations, it has a principle focus on the generation of "standard" specifications of technologies and their intended use. Obviously in the IETF’s case this focus lies with the Internet, and within that increasingly broad scope of activity, the IETF appears to specialize on aspects of the technical infrastructure of the network and the associated aspects of operational management.
Two new wireless-related working groups met for the first time during IETF 65:
In addition, there were BOFs related to mobility and wireless:
Mobile communication is continuously becoming more and more important in our daily life. Consequently also an increasing number of IETF working groups are dealing with mobility aspects. In this field one could roughly distinguish between host mobility, network mobility and ad-hoc networks. This review focuses especially on IPv6 host mobility aspects discussed during the IETF 65 in March 2006.
Mobility for IPv6 WG (mip6)
[Editors Note: While the following report provides a high-level overview of all working groups in the Internet area, some of them are discussed in more detail in the reports following this one.]
In this article I’d like to provide a brief run-down of the status of those Working Groups in the Internet Area that met at IETF 65 in March 2006, looking at the major items of interest that the WG is focussed on.
Interview with new RAI Area Directors: Jon Peterson, Cullen Jennings, conducted by Mirjam Kühne
Recently a new IETF area has been created: Real-Time Applications and Infrastructure (RAI). We wanted to find out more about the motivation behind this decision and the scope of the new area.
Question: When was it decided to set up a new area?
Newcomers to the IETF have long benefited from reading “The Tao of IETF – A Novice’s Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force” (FYI 17, RFC 3160). Thanks to original author Gary Malkin, the document covers the fundamentals of how the IETF works in a light, readable style. Reading the Tao sheds light on what happens at IETF meetings, how one can get involved, how the I-D/RFC publication process works, and the mechanics of holding and participating in Working Group meetings.
IETF65 “Birds of a Feather” [BoF] Meetings
Application Area:
dix – Digital Identity Exchange Protocol
General Area:
techspec – Requirements for the IETF Technical Specification Publication
Internet Area:
nea – Network Endpoint Assessment
12cp – Layer 2 Control Protocol
16ng – IPv6 over IEEE 802.16 (e) Networks
The first IETF meeting of each calendar year marks the transition between two “IAB years”, as some IAB members finish their terms and step down, and new IAB members join the group. On behalf of all the IAB, I’d like to thank the departing IAB members for their contributions and hard work:
Congratulations, IETF, on 20 great years of Internet standards development!
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the IETF, many activities took place at the 65th IETF in Dallas, Texas, US. The IETF community has come a long way since its first meeting on 16th January 1986 in San Diego, California.
At IETF 65 participants could test their inside knowledge by answering a number of trivia questions. Every day, small prizes were handed out to the winners.
