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IETF Last modified: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Short for Internet Engineering Task Force, the main standards organization for the Internet. The IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual.
Request For Comments (RFC) Editor's page  Home page for the publisher of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comment documents. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)  Home page of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet. Their page offers information about the organization, as well as links to working groups, topics, mailing lists, meetings, and proceedings. IETF Benchmarking Methodology Working Group Charter Describes the IETF benchmarking methodology working group and includes contact and mailing list information and links to Internet drafts and Request for Comments documents. IETF Bridge Working Group Charter Describes the IETF Bridge working group and includes contact and mailing list information and links to Request for Comments documents. IETF Domain Name System Security Working Group Charter Describes the IETF Domain Name System security working group and includes contact and mailing list information and links to Internet draft documents. IETF EDI Internet Integration Working Group Charter Describes the IETF EDI Internet integration working group and includes contact and mailing list information and links to Internet draft documents. IETF FTP Extensions Working Group Charter Describes the IETF FTP extensions working group and includes contact and mailing list information and links to Internet draft documents. IETF Hub Working Group Charter Describes the IETF Hub (IEEE 802.3) working group and includes contact and mailing list information and links to Internet drafts and Request for Comments documents. IETF MBONE Deployment Working Group Charter Describes the IETF MBONE deployment working group and includes contact and mailing list information and links to Internet draft documents. IETF NNTP Extensions Working Group Charter Describes the IETF NNTP extensions working group and includes contact and mailing list information. IETF PPP Extensions Working Group Charter Describes the IETF PPP extensions working group and includes contact and mailing list information and links to Internet drafts and Request for Comments documents. IETF Public Key Infrastructure Working Group Charter Describes the IETF public key infrastructure (X.509) working group and includes contact and mailing list information and links to Internet draft documents. IETF Remote Procedure Call Working Group Charter Describes the IETF Open Network Computing (ONC) Remote Procedure Call working group and provides contact and mailing list information, and links to Internet drafts and Request for Comments documents. IETF Web Transaction Security Working Group Charter Describes the IETF Web transacation security working group and includes contact and mailing list information and liks to Internet draft documents. Index of current internet drafts Contains links to current Internet drafts. The drafts are listed alphabetically by working group acronym and initial post date. Yahoo!'s IETF page Yahoo!'s directory of IETF.	Related Categories Internet Standards Organizations Related Terms Internet Internet Architecture Board Internet Society iSCSI RFC SASL SSL standard