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Subject: n-1-4-900.06
25th IETF Meeting in Washington
On 16-20 November, the
world's principal standards body for open
computer internetworking standards met at
Washington DC. More than seventy working groups
drawing nearly 700 participants from around the
world focussed on creating and evolving standards
universally used by enterprise networks, including
the thousands of networks constituting the global
Internet. A total of 120 working group sessions
were held over the five day period.
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) through its
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the
standards making organ of the Internet Society, and
produces the world's predominant standards for open
interconnecting of information systems. These
include the well-known TCP/IP network protocols, as
well as a wide variety of messaging, network
management, file transfer, directory, data inter-
change, knowledge discovery, and gateway protocols
to other kinds of networks and information systems.
The IETF uses innovative techniques to support the
work. Much of the work is done electronically
through the Internet. A special terminal room of
dozens of advanced networked workstations is
specially built at the meeting site by the host
organization. Video and audio from two concurrent
IETF sessions is also continuously "multicast"
through the network to more than 100 sites around
the world via the Internet, with return audio. This
allows effective remote participation.
Key developments at this meeting included:
specific alternative migration plans for addressing
and routing to accommodate the exponential growth
of the Internet; standards for using the In-
ternetwork Protocol (IP) over many new transport
technologies, especially the Asynchronous Transfer
Mode (ATM); a broad array of new techniques for
distributed information resources discovery and
access across heterogeneous, autonomous networks;
improvements in the IETF's own standards process;
finalization of new multimedia messaging standards;
a new suite of network management, mobile, and se-
curity standards.
The host of this meeting was the Sprint Corporation which
operated the terminal room over its SprintLink Internet
Service.
The 26th IETF session meets in Columbus,
Ohio USA in March 1993; the 27th is in Amsterdam,
Netherlands in July 1993.
For general information, please contact the
Internet Society Secretariat, tel: +1 703 620 8990,
fax: +1 703 620 0913, or <isoc@isoc.org>, or
1895 Preston White Dr, suite 100, Reston VA 22091
USA.
On Line IETF Information
The Internet Engineering Task Force maintains up-to-date, on-line
information on all its activities. This information is available via
FTP through the NSFnet Service Center (NNSC) and through several
``shadow'' machines. These ``shadow'' machines may in fact be more
convenient than the NNSC. Procedures for retrieving the information are
listed below.
Directory Locations
Information pertaining to the IETF, its Working Groups and Internet
Drafts can be found in either the ``IETF'' Directory or the
``Internet-Drafts'' Directory. To retrieve
this information via FTP, establish a connection, then Login with
username ``anonymous'' and the password requested by the system. This
password will either be your login name or ``guest''. When logged in,
change to the directory of your choice with the following commands:
cd ietf
cd internet-drafts
Individual files can then be retrieved using the GET command:
get <remote filename> <local filename>
e.g., get 00README readme.my.copy