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N-1-2-040.10 Internet Activities Board by A. Lyman Chapin*,
<lyman@bbn.com>
The Internet Activities Board (IAB) is the coordinating committee for
Internet design, engineering and management. The IAB is an
independent committee of researchers and professionals with a
technical interest in the health and evolution of the Internet system.
Membership changes with time to adjust to the current realities of the
research interests of the participants, the needs of the Internet
system and the concerns of constituent members of the Internet.
The IAB has two principal subsidiary task forces: 1) the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF); and 2) the Internet Research Task Force
(IRTF). Each of these Task Forces is led by a chairman and guided by
a Steering Group which reports to the IAB through its chairman. Each
task force is organized, by the chairman, as required, to carry out
its charter. For the most part, a collection of Working Groups
carries out the work program of each Task Force. All decisions of the
IAB are made public. The principal vehicle by which IAB decisions are
propagated to the parties interested in the Internet and its TCP/IP
protocol suite is the Request for Comments (RFC) note series. The
official actions of the IAB are also reported in the Internet Society
News.
The current chairman of the IAB is Lyman Chapin, who succeeded Vint
Cerf at the beginning of 1992. The other members of the IAB are
Robert Braden, Hans-Werner Braun, Vinton Cerf, Phill Gross (who is
also the chairman of the IETF), Christian Huitema, Steven Kent,
Anthony Lauck, Barry Leiner, Daniel Lynch, and Jonathan Postel (who is
also the chairman of the IRTF, the RFC Editor, and the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority).
A small proportion of the RFCs document Internet Standards. The IAB
recently published RFC 1310, which details the procedures that are
followed for the development, review, and approval of specifications
that are intended to become Internet Standards. An RFC summarizing
the status of all standard RFCs is published regularly [the current
version is RFC 1280].
* Chairman, Internet Activities Board