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The full IETF Journal, Volume 3, issue 2 (October 2007) is available here for download in PDF format (1.15MB).
Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
IETF JournalTable of Contents - Volume 3 Issue 2 (October 2007)
Full edition in PDF formatThe full IETF Journal, Volume 3, issue 2 (October 2007) is available here for download in PDF format (1.15MB). Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
IPv6 Captures the Spotlight at IETF 69From the Editor’s Desk, by Mirjam Kühne If it were possible to assign a theme to the IETF 69 meeting in Chicago last July, the obvious choice would be IPv6. Now that IPv6 has become an integral part of the community, as evidenced by the number of working groups that are connected to it, it is the actual deployment of IPv6 that is capturing the attention of the IETF. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Paving the Way for IPv6 - Community meets to discuss the challengesAt a joint IESG-IAB meeting, participants discussed the deployment of IPv6, the state of the IPv4 address pool, the challenges of both, and what the IETF can do about it all. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Message from the IETF ChairBy Russ Housley Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Words from the IAB ChairBy Olaf Kolkman The IAB acts as representative of the interests of the IETF and the Internet Society in technical liaison relationships with other organisations concerned with standards and other technical and organisational issues relevant to the world-wide Internet.
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Plenary ReportBy Mirjam Kühne
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ISOC Fellowship ProgramFive technologists, educators, and students from the developing world were named recipients of the Internet Society’s Fellowship to the IETF. The fellows were selected prior to IETF 68 in Prague from a large pool of well-qualified applicants. In addition to the financial and administrative support that enabled the fellows to attend IETF 69 in Chicago, each fellow was paired with a mentor from the community of experienced IETF participants. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
IETF Support for IPv6 DeploymentBy Shane Kerr One of the common themes within the IETF community is that the IETF has not done enough either to encourage adoption of IPv6 or to make the technology useful. While it may be true that IPv6 has problems, the assumptions about support from the IETF are wrong. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
IPv6 Type 0 - Routing HeaderBy Arnaud Ebalard At both the corporate and Internet network infrastructure levels, IP-based routing decisions are performed on the destination address of IP packets by following global routing tables’ content and associated policies. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
A Retrospective View of NATBy Lixia Zhang Today, network address translators are everywhere. Their ubiquitous adoption was promoted neither by design nor by planning but by the continued growth of the Internet, which brings forth an ever-increasing demand not only on IP address space but also on other functional requirements that network address translation (NAT) is perceived to facilitate. This article provides a personal perspective on the history of NAT, the lessons we may learn from it, and some articulations on best ways forward from where we are today. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Recent IESG Document and Protocol ActionsListing of recent IESG Document and Protocol Actions (more…) Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Update on Routing and Addressing at IETF 69By David Meyer The IAB’s Routing and Addressing Workshop1, held in October 2006 in Amsterdam, rekindled interest in scalable routing and addressing architectures for the Internet. Among the many issues driving current interest are concerns about the scalability of the routing system and the imminent depletion of the IPv4 address space. This article is a summary of the Routing Research Group (RRG) meeting at IETF 69 in Chicago, where discussions took place about the proposals designed to address the problems and issues that were identified in Amsterdam. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
ISOC Chicago Arranges for Experts’ Panel at IETF 69When the IETF comes to town, the ISOC chapters in the region are encouraged to take advantage of the experts. At IETF 69, not only did ISOC Chicago members get free passes to attend the Newcomers’ Tutorial and the Plenary session; they also organised a panel discussion featuring a handful of IAB members. The panel was intended to help the area’s chapter members gain insight into current issues as well as developments at the IETF and on the Internet in general. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
IRTF ReportBy Aaron Falk Currently, 14 research groups are working on topics related to Internet protocols, applications, architecture, and technology. Some groups have significant ties to IETF work; others, not so much. Most groups are open, and all maintain open mailing lists. There is room for overlap in scope, and the management style within each is diverse. (more…) Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Update from the NomComNomCom Members 2007 Derek Atkins Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
IETF Meeting CalendarFall 2007-IETF 70 Spring 2008-IETF 71 Summer 2008-IETF 72 Fall 2008-IETF 73 Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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By all accounts, IETF 69 was a success. Held in a grand hotel in downtown Chicago, we had in attendance 1,146 people from 40 countries. In spite of the noise from ongoing renovations to the hotel, progress was made in a number of working groups. 
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has a number of responsibilities, one of which is to maintain relationships between the IETF and external organisations. RFC 2850 describes the process in the following manner:
Unlike previous IETF meetings, the IETF 69 plenary did not feature a technical presentation. Olaf Kolkman explained that it can be a challenge to find good speakers and topics that are interesting and relevant enough for the entire IETF community. The open mic discussion that ensued prompted several suggestions, including one by Aaron Falk, chair of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), who proposed that more research topics be included, which, he said, might have the added benefit of encouraging more researchers to participate in the work of the IETF. Another participant added that it might be beneficial to have an IETF working group (WG) or an IRTF research group (RG) present its work to a wider audience, such as IETF plenary participants, if the scope of the work is not too narrow. 
