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Deadline Extended for Applied Networking Research Workshop Paper Submissions

ANRW provides a forum for researchers, vendors, network operators, and the Internet standards community to present and discuss emerging results in applied networking research.

Read about how to submit papers by 5 May 2021.

Upcoming events

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    IETF 111 Online 

    IETF 111 starts Monday, 26 July and runs through Friday afternoon, 30 July.

    Online
  • IETF 108 Madrid

    IETF 112 Madrid 

    IETF 112 starts Saturday 06 November and runs through Friday afternoon, 12 November.

    Madrid
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Much of the daily work of the IETF is conducted on electronic mailing lists. A new mail archive tool realizing the requirements developed in RFC 6778 is now in use:

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The IETF Datatracker contains data about IETF documents, working groups, meetings, agendas, minutes, presentations, and more:


Understanding the Internet Engineering Task Force

Working Groups

Working Groups are the primary mechanism for development of IETF specifications and guidelines. Working Groups are typically created to address a specific problem or to produce one or more specific deliverables (a guideline, standards specification, etc.).

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RTCWeb

The (now concluded) RTCWEB working group defined specifications for interactive rich communication using audio, video, collaboration, games, etc. between two peers' web-browsers so that interoperable…

rtcweb rtcweb@ietf.org

Request for Comments (RFCs)

The IETF publishes RFCs authored by network operators, engineers, and computer scientists to document methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the Internet.

Featured RFC

The JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP)

This document specifies a protocol for clients to efficiently query, fetch, and modify JSON-based data objects, with support for push notification of changes and fast resynchronisation and for out-of…

RFC 8620was: RFC 8620

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