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Internet Standards and how to get involved

What’s Happening at the IETF?

Kevin Meynell

Content & Resource Manager

meynell@isoc.org

23 November 2017

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Disclaimer

Two important points:

No-one really speaks for the IETF

I am speaking about the IETF as an individual participant

https://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/iesg/trac/wiki/SpeakingForIetf

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Mission of the IETF

Make the Internet work better by producing

high quality, relevant technical documents

that influence the way people

design, use, and manage the Internet

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The Internet is a global community

— First meeting in 1986

— Large open international community of network engineers, operators, vendors

and researchers concerned with development and smooth operation of the

Internet

— Volunteers participate on an individual basis to develop and refine protocols that

are useful to operators, manufacturers and vendors utilising the Internet who

support the work of the IETF

— Produce open standards known as Request for Comments (RFCs)

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IETF Standards make the Internet work

TCP/IP

— IPv4 (RFC791) and IPv6

(RFC2460…)

— TCP (RFC675…) and UDP

(RFC768)

E-Mail

— SMTP (RFC5321), IMAP

(RFC3501)

Network and Routing

— BGP (RFC4271), OSPF

(RFC2178…), MPLS (RFC3031)

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DNS

— DNS (RFCs 1034, 1035…)

— DNSSEC (RFCs 4033, 4034 &

4035)

— DANE (RFCs 6698, 7671…)

Web

— HTTP (RFC2616…)

Security

— TLS (RFCs 5246 & 6176)

The Internet Engineering Task Force

— http://www.ietf.org/

— Anyone can participate in the mailing lists and discussions

— Anyone can submit a ‘draft’ document

(known as an Internet Draft or I-D)

— Working Groups debate and discuss drafts

— Documents progress through the standards process to become RFCs

— Primary venue for all communication is e-mail

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Working Groups and Areas

— 135 Working Groups

– Each working group has 2 or 3 Co-Chairs

— Working Groups have a Charter that defines:

– Purpose

– Deliverables

– Timeframe

— Working Groups are created, re-chartered and concluded

— Activities organized into 7 Areas

– Each area has 2 or 3 Area Directors (ADs)

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IETF Areas - http://www.ietf.org/iesg/area.html

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• Application protocols and architectures

• Real-time (and non-real-time) communicationApplications and Real-Time (ART)

• Mechanisms related to data transport on the Internet

• Congestion controlTransport (TSV)

• Routing and signalling protocolsRouting(RTG)

• IPv4/IPv6, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, mobilityInternet(INT)

• Network management

• Operations: IPv6, DNS, security, routingOperations and Management (OPS)

• Security protocols and mechanisms, including cryptographySecurity(SEC)

• Activities focused on supporting and updating IETF processesGeneral(GEN)

Working Groups - by Area

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ART, 40

GEN, 1

INT, 19

OPS, 17

RTG, 25

SEC, 19

TSV, 13

IETF Meetings

— Three times each year

— Move around the world to different locations

— Continuation of discussions on e-mail lists

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IETF 100: 11-17 November 2017, Singapore

— http://www.ietf.org/meeting/100/

— 1,620 on-site participants from 50+ countries

— 1 from Serbia (remotely)!

— IETF Hackathon and Codesprint (12-13 Nov 2017)

Held to encourage developers to discuss, collaborate and develop utilities,

ideas, sample code and solutions that show practical implementations of IETF

standards

— ISOC posts about IETF 100 at:

– https://www.internetsociety.org/tag/ietf100/

– https://www.internetsociety.org/events/ietf/ietf-100/ 11

Next Meeting: IETF 101

— 17-23 March 2018, London

https://www.ietf.org/meeting/101/

— Remote participation available:

– Audio streams

– Web conferencing systems

– Jabber chat rooms

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IETF Fellowship Programme

Fellowships available to enable people to attend IETF meetings

http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-

programmes/ietf-and-ois-programmes/internet-society-fellowship

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IETF Policy Programme

Fellowships available for regulators to attend IETF meetings and learn about

IETF standards and processes

https://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-

programmes/ietf-and-ois-programmes/internet-society-fellowship-5

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IPv6 Activities

— IPv6 now common across most working groups

— Some key groups:

– IPv6 Operations (v6ops) WG – provides operational guidance on deploying

and operating IPv6 in new and existing networks.

– IPv6 Maintenance (6man) WG – upkeep and advancement of IPv6 protocol

specifications and addressing architecture.

– Home Networking (homenet) WG – developing networking protocols for

small residential networks.

– Sunsetting IPv4 (sunset4) WG – discusses transition of IPv4 to IPv6 with

view to deprecating IPv4.15

DNS/DNSSEC Activities

— DNS Operations (dnsop) WG – provides operational guidance on DNS

software and services, administration of DNS zones, and DNSSEC.

— DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (dane) WG - developing

mechanisms and techniques to allow establishment of cryptographically secured

communications using information in the DNS.

— DNS PRIVate Exchange (DPRIVE) WG – developing mechanisms to provide

confidentiality to DNS transactions using TLS and/or DTLS.

— DNS over HTTPS (DOH) WG – developing mechanisms to provide

confidentality between DNS clients and recursive resolvers using HTTPS where

TLS and DTLS have problems.

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Routing Activities

— Secure Inter-Domain Routing (sidr) WG – improving the security of the routing

infrastructure through the RPKI and BGPSEC specifications

— SIDR Operations (sidrops) WG – developing operation guidance on deploying

and operating SIDR in new and existing networks.

— Global Routing Operations (grow) WG – considers the operational problems

with the IPv4 and IPv6 global routing systems,including route leaks.

— Inter-Domain Routing Working Group (idr) WG – improving the robustness

and scalability of BGP by IPv4 and IPv6.

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Trust, Identity and Privacy Activities

— Transport Layer Security (tls) WG – developing a cryptographic protocol to

provide privacy and data integrity between communicating computer

applications.

— Using TLS in Applications (uta) WG - developing definitions for using TLS

with application protocols, best practices for clients and servers, and guidance

for developers.

— Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme) WG – developing

REST-based specifications for automating digital certificate issuance, validation,

revocation and renewal. The basis of the Let’s Encrypt service.

— Public Notary Transparency (trans) WG – developing mechanisms to allowing

detection of mis-issued certificates.

— CURves, Deprecating and a Little more Encryption (curves) WG –

developing new cryptographic security, including new algorithms for DNSSEC

and SSH.

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Summary

— The IETF makes the Internet work better

— It has a fundamental role in Internet administration

— It has international scope, but local relevance

— It has an open, inclusive and well-established structure

— Your participation is critical to the success of the IETF

— More information:

http://www.ietf.org/newcomers.html

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