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unusual facts about IETF



Differentiated services

In December 1998, the IETF published RFC 2474 - Definition of the Differentiated services field (DS field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 headers, which replaced the IPv4 TOS field with the DS field.

Dust Networks

Dust Networks works with industry and standards groups such as WirelessHART, IETF, ISA, and WINA to help drive the adoption of interoperable wireless sensor networking products.

Housley

Russ Housley, the current (2009) Chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), since March 2007

IETF Administrative Support Activity

The IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) is an activity housed within the Internet Society (ISOC).

Internet Engineering Steering Group

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) is a body composed of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) chair and area directors.

Internet Engineering Task Force Administrative Oversight Committee

The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) is part of the support organization for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

InTouch N.V.

InTouch is contributing to the development of the LISP protocol in the IETF.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Mark Wahl of Critical Angle Inc., Tim Howes, and Steve Kille started work in 1996 on a new version of LDAP, LDAPv3, under the aegis of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Media server

Protocols such as Netann, MSCML and MSML have been created for this way of working, and a new protocol, MediaCTRL is under development at the IETF.

Michael Mealling

Michael Mealling (born 1969) is co-founder of Pipefish Inc, and was the cofounder, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Vice President of Business Development of Masten Space Systems, CEO of Refactored Networks, long time participant within the IETF, a Space Frontier Foundation Advocate, and a former Director of the Moon Society.

Office Open XML file formats

According to Rick Jelliffe, programmer and standards activist (ISO, W3C, IETF), EMUs are a rational solution to a particular set of design criteria.

RealVideo

RealVideo can be played from a RealMedia file or streamed over the network using the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), a standard protocol for streaming media developed by the IETF.

Secure file transfer protocol

SSH File Transfer Protocol, a file transfer protocol specifically developed by the IETF to run over secure shell connections

Session Initiation Protocol

Originally designed by Henning Schulzrinne and Mark Handley in 1996, SIP has been developed and standardized in RFC 3261 under the auspices of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Tom Limoncelli

He is the author of Time Management for System Administrators from O'Reilly; along with Christine Hogan, co-author of the book The Practice of System and Network Administration from Addison-Wesley and in 2007 with Peter H. Salus he has published a compilation of the best April Fools jokes created by the IETF entitled The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs.


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