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Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
IETF JournalTable of Contents - Volume 3 Issue 1 (May 2007)
Full edition in PDF formatThe full IETF Journal, Volume 3, issue 1 (May 2007) is available here for download in PDF format(969KB). Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Editor’s WelcomeBy Mirjam Kuehne This issue of the IETF Journal covers the meetings and discussions from IETF 68, which was held in March 2007 in Prague. The meeting was especially notable due to the many changes among the IETF leadership. Brian Carpenter, whose term as IETF chair ended in March, turned over the reins to veteran IETFer Russ Housley. Leslie Daigle, whose longtime position as chair of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) also ended, handed the chairmanship over to Olaf Kolkman. As a result, in this issue you will hear from both the outgoing and incoming chairs, who reflect on their experiences and offer a few words about their view of the future. A number of other personnel changes were recognised at the meeting, including the naming of Kurtis Lindqvist as new chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC). (more…) Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Words from the Retiring IETF ChairBy Brian Carpenter
IETF 68 Facts and Figures
Registered attendees: 1129 Countries: 45 New WGs: 3 Closed WGs: 6 New Internet-Drafts: 441 Updated Internet-Drafts: 1020 IETF Last Calls: 119 Approvals: 130 RFC Editor Actions (11.2006 - 02. 2007)
IANA Actions (11.2006 - 02.2007)
Reviewed 300 I-Ds in Last Call It was especially interesting to hear from Jon Lindberg, vice president of Secretariat Services at NeuStar, about his company’s motivation for supporting the IETF. “As technology becomes more advanced, and protocols become more sophisticated, and service offerings continue to become more and more robust, and end-user expectations continue to increase, NeuStar’s reliance on IETF standards is absolutely essential in order to be able to continue to deliver successful and unified solutions,” Jon said. Since IETF 67, three new WGs were chartered and six WGs were closed, leaving approximately 120 WGs currently chartered. Between the meetings, the WGs and their individual contributors produced 441 new drafts, not to mention 1,020 updates. The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) approved 130 drafts for publication as RFCs, and the RFC publication queue was stable. The RFC Editor hit a new record by publishing 459 RFCs during 2006. As I step down after two exciting and rewarding years as chair of the IETF, I’d like to thank all of the individuals who personally helped me do this job. I can easily identify well over 120 such people, and that’s without even counting the working group chairs and document authors who do so much to make the IETF productive. If we succeed, it’s in a spirit of open cooperation between hundreds of people. It remains only for me to wish every success to Russ Housley as he carries the work forward. I look forward to seeing many of you in Chicago, 22-27 July 2007, and after that in Vancouver, Canada, 2-7 December 2007. Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Words from the Incoming IETF ChairBy Russ Housley
2005 - 2007 Brian Carpenter 2001 - 2005 Harald Alvestrand 1996 - 2001 Fred Baker 1994 - 1996 Paul Mockapetris 1986 - 1994 Phillip Gross 1986 Michael Corrigan Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Farewell from the Outgoing IAB ChairBy Leslie Daigle
As I’ve steadfastly refused to grow a grey beard, I will claim I’m too young to take full retirement! But, after five years of chairing the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), I am pleased to step down and pass the task into the capable hands of Olaf Kolkman. Any number of jokes can be made about the A in IAB standing for administration or appeal - and it is a fact that the IAB has several roles to fulfil in those areas. However, the IAB has remained true to its mandate to provide oversight of the architecture for the protocols and procedures used by the Internet. As the scope of the Internet grows, so does the architectural oversight challenge. Over the past five years, we’ve worked to meet that growing challenge by leveraging the 13-member IAB to provide leadership and guidance of architectural discussions in the open consensus environment of the IETF. The challenge of providing focused architectural leadership is not going to lessen in the coming years, particularly as the Internet hits some growing pains, such as the current discussions about routing and addressing issues and internationalisation. I am confident that Olaf will provide the thoughtful guidance needed for the IAB to take those issues on and provide oversight, even as the reality remains that the Internet is for, and built by, everyone: we can all be contributing to the discussions of sound Internet architecture. Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Words from the Incoming IAB ChairBy Olaf Kolkman
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ISOC Fellowship ProgramBy Karen Rose  IETF Fellows and mentors in Prague The five recipients of the Internet Society’s Fellowship to the IIETF completed their participation in March, following IETF 68, which was held in Prague. The fellows selected to participate in IETF 68 were chosen from among more than 80 well-qualified applicants from the developing world. Each fellow received full funding to travel to Prague and participate in IETF 68. In addition, each fellow was paired with a mentor from the community of experienced IETF participants. Fellow Jimmy M. Kimanzi is network administrator with Swift Global in Kenya. He was mentored by Dave Meyer of Cisco Systems. Fellow Hichem Maalaoui is head of technical innovation and new projects at the Tunisian Internet Agency in Tunisia. His mentor was Hesham Soliman of Elevate Technologies. Fellow Alberto F. Martinez is research assistant at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. He was mentored by Shane Kerr of the Internet Systems Consortium. Fellow R. Lakmal Silva is from Sri Lanka and is a graduate student at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola in Sweden. He was mentored by Patrik Fältström of Cisco. Originally from Pakistan, fellow Tariq Rahim Soomoro is assistant professor at the Fujairah Colleges in the United Arab Emirates. He was mentored by Harald Alvestrand, an engineer at Google. Five Fellows will participate in the program at IETF 69 in Chicago. In addition to those who served as mentors to the Fellows at IETF 68, ISOC would like to thank James Galvin, Jaap Akkerhuis, Alain Patrick Aina, Sanjaya, and Frederico Neves for their participation as part of the Fellowship application review and selection committee. The next call for applications will be announced shortly after IETF 69. ISOC is extending an opportunity for organisations to become sponsors of the program. Details can be found in the Education section on www.isoc.org. Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Plenary ReportBy Mirjam Kühne
At IETF 68, the operations and administrative plenary session consisted of two parts: The first consisted of the usual updates on administrative and operational IETF issues. The second was dedicated to the status of the routing and addressing problem (ROAP). IETF 68 attendees heard from Morgan Sackett - a representative of VeriLAN, the company providing network as well as network operations centre (NOC) services for the meeting - who gave a brief presentation that described the general network layout. Attendees also heard from Jon Lindberg, vice president of Secretariat Services, who gave an elevator speech about NeuStar’s services. NeuStar Secretariat Services (NSS) organises the IETF meetings and is responsible for tools development and the overall IT infrastructure. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Update on DNSBy Jaap Akkerhuis and Peter Koch This is an update on recent DNS activities based on current active working groups related to this area. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Recent IESG Document and Protocol ActionsListing of recent IESG Document and Protocol Actions (more…) Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
More ROAP: Routing and Addressing at IETF68By Geoff Huston Over the past year or so, we’ve seen a heightened level of interest in the topic of Internet routing and addressing. Continued intense examination of the IPv6 protocol together with associated speculation regarding the future role of the Internet raises the possibility of the Internet supporting a world of tens or hundreds of billions of chattering devices. What does such a future imply in terms of the core technologies of the Internet? Does what we use right now scale into such a possible tomorrow? Consideration of this topic has prompted critical examination of aspects of the architecture of the Internet, including the scaling properties of routing systems, the forms of interdependence between addressing plans and routing, and the roles of addresses within the architecture. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
IPv6 UpdateBy Mikael Lind IPv6 is quietly fading away as a topic. Instead, it is becoming an integrated part of all of the work within the IETF. There are still many remaining IPv6-specific problems to solve, but instead of being treated on the side by the IPv6 community, the majority of the problems are now part of different working groups covering both IPv4 and IPv6. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
DHCPv6 Bake OffBy Alain Durand The DHCPv6 protocol has been in existence for several years, but only recently have a number of independent, production-ready implementations been available on the market. Initial lab tests pointed to some interoperability issues between codes of different origins. With the help of the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the office of the chief technology officer of Comcast decided to organise a DHCPv6 bake off (see sidebar, page 23) for the purpose of testing as many implementations as possible for interoperability, operational impact, and usability. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Not Being ThereBy Geoff Huston Within the IETF, as much work as possible happens on its various mailing lists, so that attendance at IETF meetings is not an essential part of being an effective contributor to the work of the IETF. Well, that’s the objective, and, in general, that’s been the case: critical decisions involving the milestones of the progress of IETF documents and the procedures we use are proposed, debated, and, as much as possible, concluded through the use of these mailing lists. But face-to-face meetings are still important. As one IETF attendee pointed out (on an IETF mailing list, by the way!) after IETF 68: “It’s hard to be consistently effective in the IETF without attending the face-to-face meetings. A lot happens during IETF week.” (more…) Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
IRTF ReportBy Aaron Falk
Below are summaries of several updates on the Internet Research Groups (RGs), as reported during the Technical Plenary at IETF 68. Anti-Spam RG (asrg) The asrg published a couple of drafts and had some energetic discussions about them on the mailing list:
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IETF Meeting CalendarSummer 2007-IETF 69 Fall 2007-IETF 70 Spring 2008-IETF 71 IETF 72 Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
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IETF 68 was held in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, in a very modern and spacious Hilton hotel. We were hosted by NeuStar, with additional support from CZNIC and CESNET. Local loop was provided by Dial Telecom, and for the first time, the site network was subcontracted to VeriLAN Networks. As always, the success of the event was due largely to an outstanding team of dedicated volunteers. We had excellent wireless networking throughout the week. Approximately 1,200 people from 45 countries attended. The week featured the usual mix of working group meetings, BoF (birds-of-a-feather) sessions, research groups, and formal and informal side meetings.
At IETF 68, I was honoured to accept the position of IETF chair. I have the privilege of standing on the shoulders of the giants who came before me:
Writing this report, which is my first for the IETF Journal, is one of the many tasks I inherited from Leslie when I took over as Internet Architecture Board (IAB) chair during the IETF meeting in Prague. Only when I received the token did I begin to appreciate the extent of my predecessor’s achievements. I will not make an attempt to enumerate all of Leslie’s many achievements, but I think it is good to explicitly recognise her critical role in the reorganisation of the IETF over the past few years. In her role as IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) member, she was a driving force in formalising the relations between the IETF and the RFC editor. In her role as IAB chair, she set the bar pretty high. It will be a challenge to match the quality and quantity of her efforts. 
