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6 unusual facts about Internet Engineering Task Force


Eliot Lear

Eliot Lear is a longtime member of the Internet Engineering Task Force and author of several Request for Comments.

Foretec Seminars

Foretec Seminars was a wholly owned subsidiary of The Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) that provides technical and logistical support for both CNRI and the Internet Engineering Task Force secretariat.

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.

Panasas

Parallel NFS (pNFS) was part of the NFS version 4.1 specification, published by the Internet Engineering Task Force as an Request for Comments (RFC) in January, 2010.


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.

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).

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).


see also

Housley

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

NSIS

Next Steps in Signaling, an Internet Engineering Task Force working group