Encyclopedia > IETF

Article Content

Internet Engineering Task Force

Redirected from IETF

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is charged with developing and promoting Internet standards.

The current chairman of the IETF is Harald Tveit Alvestrand.

List of IETF chairs:

Harald Tveit Alvestrand (2001-present)

Fred Baker[?] (1996-2001)

Paul Mockapetris (1994-1995)

Phill Gross[?] (1986-1993)

See also: standardization, Internet Standard, RFC, and IAB.

External Links:

The official IETF site:
- http://www.ietf.org/
Details on how IETF is organized:
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3160.txt
Harald Alvestrands IETF activities (by Alvestrand):
- http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

List of closed London Underground stations

... station[?] Wood Lane (Central Line) tube station[?] Wood Lane (Metropolitan Line) tube station[?] (aka White City; on what is now the Hammersmith & City Line) Uxbridge ...