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- N-1-1-040.10 Internet Activities Board (IAB), Vint Cerf*,
- <vcerf@NRI.Reston.VA.US>
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- Apart from its regular standards-review activities, the Internet
- Activities Board has been paying increasing attention over the last
- year to architectural imperatives brought on by the rapid expansion
- and diversification of the Internet. During the summer of 1991, an
- architectural retreat was convened by the IAB and hosted by the San
- Diego Supercomputer Center, at which members of the IAB, the Internet
- Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and a few invitees debated and
- explored the future needs of the Internet at all levels of the
- protocol hierarchy.
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- Many important requirements were recognized, but among the most
- pressing were: the need to scale to over one billion (10**9) networks;
- the need for a high-quality security architecture; the need for a
- common, well-maintained and populated "white pages" directory service.
- A second retreat has been scheduled in early January in Boston,
- Massachusetts.
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- The Internet Activities Board announced in early December that Lyman
- Chapin would assume the chairmanship of the IAB in January, 1992, when
- the present chairman, Vint Cerf, steps down to devote his attention to
- the needs of the Internet Society. The IAB also accepted, with regret
- but with a great deal of appreciation for his service, the resignation
- of Dr. David D. Clark. Dr. Clark served as chairman of the Internet
- Activities Board from its inception until 1989, as chairman of the
- Internet Research Task Force from July 1989 to January 1992, and has
- been a productive contributor to the TCP/IP protocol suite development
- for over a decade.
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- *Vice President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
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