APIGA 2024: Governance of the Internet, 9 July 2024
Dhruv Dhody (dhruv.ietf@gmail.com)

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IETF
MissionMake the Internet work better by producing
high quality, relevant technical documentsthat influence the way people design, use,
and manage the Internet.
[RFC 3935]

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Ethos
Everyone may participate
Make all work available for freeJudge contributions on technical merits
Determine success by voluntary deployment

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Work Areas and Key Protocols
Internet Applications(W3C, OASIS, etc.)

Operations &Management(OPS)Applications & Realtime Media (ART)application protocols over end-to-end transports
Voice & video, SIP, RTP, email

networkmanagement &operational
best practices
YANG
NETCONF
SNMP
RADIUS

Web & Internet Transport page(WIT)
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end-to-end transmission mechanisms over network paths
HTTP, TCP, UDP, QUIC, congestion control

Routing (RTG)

stable paths across dynamically interconnected networks
BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP, VPNs, SFC, multicast

Internet (INT)

Security (SEC)

security & privacy
at all layers &for all protocols
TLSIPsecPGP
S/MIME
PKIX
cryptography

how to carry IP packets over different link layers
IPv6, IPv4, DNS, DHCP, NTP, mobility, multihoming
Link Layers(IEEE, 3GPP, etc.)

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IETF
Examples of Relevant, On-going Work
Improvements onmedia transport
E.g. Media over QUIC (MoQ)
develops a simple low-latency
media delivery solution for ingest
and distribution of media

Improving security andprivacy
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E.g. TLS1.3 to ensure the Internet istrusted as a medium forcommunications and collaboration

Performance
optimizations

Developing newtransport technology

Low Latency, Low Loss, andScalable Throughput (L4S) Service
supports both high bandwidth andlow latency

E.g. QUIC and HTTP3 to enhance
the ability of applications to senddata across a growing and diverse
Internet

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IETF
Open Internet Standards● Open standards are key to allow devices, services, and applications to interoperate acrossa interconnected, heterogeneous, and global network of networks○ All IETF standards are available online at no charge, thus facilitating adoption of them.

○ The IETF determines its success by technical quality and voluntary deployment● The IETF process is open, transparent, and relies on a bottom-up consensus-building○ Everybody may participate, no membership○ All work like Internet-Drafts and email archives are publicly available○ Decisions are based on rough consensus● Openness in both the technical standards itself as well as the standards development
process is the basis for innovation in and on top of the Internet and key to its success.
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Global IETF Community

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1460 onsite and remote participants

page010Making the Internet work betterpage010IETF Snapshot 2023

https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2023

From the IETFMaking
Community
Survey 2023
the Internet work betterWe believe in:Rough consensus
and running code
David Clark, 1992

IETF
Organizational Structure

IETF
Administration LLC

IETF Trust

RFC Editor

Internet Architecture
Board(IAB)

InternetResearch
Task Force(IRTF)

RG● Areas are structured into

Internet EngineeringSteering Group (IESG)

GeneralWG

working groups (WGs)

14 Area Directors

R. Danyliw

WG● IETF is structured into seven areas○ Each with area directors (ADs)○ Each with WG chairs● Internet Engineering Steering Group(IESG) = all ADs○ Approves all Internet Standards

WG
WG

Applications &Real-Time(art)

WG

M. Kucherawy
O. Steele

WG

Internet

WG(int)○ Manages technical work

WG

E. Kline
E. Vyncke○ Starts/ends WGs

WG

Ops & Mgmt

WG
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WG(ops)M. Jethanandani
W. Kumari(gen)Routing(rtg)

RG
RGWG

J. Guichard
J. Scudder
G. Van de Velde

WG

Security(sec)

WG

WG

WG

D. Cooley
P. Wouters

Web & InternetTransport

WG

F. Palombini
Z. Sarker

WG

(wit)

WG

WG

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IETF
Processes and Safeguards● Open participation, transparent processes, and distributed decision-making● Rough consensus, no voting● Judgments on the basis of technical merit and architectural alignment○ Leadership judges consensus rather than offering personal opinions● Leadership nominations committee (“NomCom”)○ Randomized selection of committee members from pool of active IETF
volunteers○ Two-per-organization limit on committee members○ Decisions on the basis of community feedback● Leadership diversity norms; soft per-company limits
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IETF
Document Types
Internet-Draft (I-D)

RFC (Request For Comments)● Active working documents● Archival publication series○ Not finalized and not stable● Anyone can submit an I-D○ draft-yourname-...

● Only some I-Ds are Working
Group documents○ draft-ietf-wgname-...
Making the Internet work better○ RFCs never change once published● Not all RFCs are standards○ Also: Informational, Experimental● Not all RFCs are IETF documents○ Also Internet Architecture Board(IAB), Internet Research Task Force(IRTF), others

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How To Engage● Working groups and materials○ All working groups are open to anyone and free to join

○ All working materials are freely available online○ Most work is conducted online● Meetings and events○ IETF plenary meetings are held three times a year (rotating around the globe)○ Some working groups schedule interim meetings at various times and places○ Full remote participation is available for all meetings (since before the pandemic)○ Open source IETF Hackathons are collocated with plenary meetings● Get started at: www.ietf.org/participate
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Ways to participate in the IETF

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