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SIP/IMS Standardization


	IETF Standardization Process


	RFCs related to SIP (4 p.)


	SIP-SIPPING-SIMPLE... I-Ds (22 p.)


	Audio-Video Transport RFCs (2 p.)


	3GPP Specifications (12 p.)


	OMA Specifications related to SIP


	TISPAN NGN Specifications (3 p.)


	SIP Topics


	IMS Topics

SIP/IMS Call Flows


	RFC3261's Example


	Basic -- RFC3665


	SIP PSTN -- RFC3666 (3 p.)


	SIP Service Examples (20 p.)


	IMS Signaling Flows (35 p.)

SIP/IMS Architecture


	SIP Protocol Structure


	Dialogs & Routing


	UMTS Network Evolution

Security


	PKIX-TLS-SMIME... Standards (20 p.)


	Cryptography Basics


	ASN.1 for PKI Certificate & CRL Profile


	ASN.1 for CMS


	RFC3280's Certificate Examples (4)


	RFC4134's CMS-S/MIME Examples (14)


	RFC4474's SIP Authentication Service


	SSL/TLS Time-Diagrams


	IPSec Guides

ABNF Grammars


	ABNF Notation & Rules


	URI Generic Syntax


	ABNF for SIP

	SIP Messages & URIs

	SIP Header Fields

	MIME Media Types


	ABNF for SDP


	ABNF for MSRP


	ABNF for MRCPv2


	ABNF for RTSP 2.0


	Internet Message Format

DiffServ CoS Simulation


	IPVCoSS Simulator


	IP-VPN Case Study

(daily updated)

Organizations involved in the IETF Standardization Process

Figure 1 illustrates the organizations related to Internet Standardization. Comments related to each organization or activity are mostly excerpts from the ISOC's annual review and from relevant RFCs.

Top		IETF	ISOC	IASA	IAB	IESG	RFC Editor	IANA
		IRTF	IRSG	IETF Meetings	Mailing Lists	BCPs	RFCs	I-Ds

Figure 1: Organizations involved in the IETF Standards Process

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IETF -- Internet Engineering Task Force

Link: http://www.ietf.org/

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open international community of network designers, operators, vendors and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is important to note that the IETF is not a corporation: it is an unincorporated, freestanding organization.

The technical work of the IETF is done in its Working Groups, which are organized by topics into several Areas under the coordination of Area Directors. For all purposes relevant to the Internet Standards development process, membership in the IETF and its Working Groups is defined to be established solely and entirely by individual participation in IETF and Working Group activities. Participation in the IETF and its Working Groups is by individual technical contributors rather than by formal representatives of organizations.

In the following list, the WG name points to the corresponding IETF Tools's Status Page, which in turn offers a link to the Charter and the Mailing List's Archive pages.

GEN

GENERAL area

AD: Russ Housley

Note: The General Area Director also serves as the chair of the IESG and of the IETF.

WG	Creation	Chair(s)

IPR	08/2002	Harald Alvestrand	Intellectual Property Rights

APP

APPLICATIONS area

ADs: Lisa Dusseault, Chris Newman

WG	Creation	Chair(s)

CALSIFY	07/2005	Eliot Lear Aki Niemi	Calendaring and Scheduling Standards Simplification

CRISP	06/2002	April Marine George Michaelson	Cross Registry Information Service Protocol

EAI	03/2006	Harald Alvestrand XiaoDong Lee	Email Address Internationalization

HTTPBIS	10/2007	Mark Nottingham	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis

IDNABIS	04/2008	Vinton G. Cerf	Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (Revised)

IMAPEXT	-	Pete Resnick	Internet Message Access Protocol Extension

LEMONADE	04/2003	Glenn Parsons Eric Burger	Enhancements to Internet email to support diverse service environments

LTRU	03/2005	Randy Presuhn Martin Duerst	Language Tag Registry Update

SIEVE	11/2004	Cyrus Daboo Alexey Melnikov	Sieve Mail Filtering Language

USEFOR	-	Harald Alvestrand Alexey Melnikov	Usenet Article Standard Update

INT

INTERNET area

ADs: Mark Townsley, Jari Arkko

WG	Creation	Chair(s)

16NG	06/2006	Gabriel Montenegro Soohong Daniel Park	IP over IEEE 802.16 Networks

6LOWPAN	03/2005	Carsten Bormann Geoffrey Mulligan	IPv6 over Low power WPAN

6MAN	09/2007	Robert Hinden Brian Haberman	IPv6 Maintenance

ANCP	10/2005	Matthew Bocci Wojciech Dec	Access Node Control Protocol

AUTOCONF	10/2005	Shubhranshu Singh Thomas Heide Clausen	Ad-Hoc Network Autoconfiguration

CSI	02/2008	Marcelo Bagnulo Gabriel Montenegro	Cga & Send maIntenance

DHC	02/2003	Ralph Droms Stig Venaas	Dynamic Host Configuration

DNA	02/2004	Greg Daley Suresh Krishnan	Detecting Network Attachment

DNSEXT	12/1999	Olafur Gudmundsson	DNS Extensions

EAP	08/2002	Bernard Aboba	Extensible Authentication Protocol

HIP	03/2004	David Ward Gonzalo Camarillo	Host Identity Protocol

IPDVB	01/2004	Gorry Fairhurst	IP over DVB

IPORPR	02/2001	Glenn Parsons	IP over Resilient Packet Rings

L2TPEXT	10/1999	Ignacio Goyret Carlos Pignataro	Layer Two Tunneling Protocol Extensions

L2VPN	07/2003	Shane Amante Vach Kompella	Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks

L3VPN	07/2003	Rick Wilder Ronald Bonica	Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks

MAGMA	07/2001	Isidor Kouvelas Brian Haberman	Multicast & Anycast Group Membership

MEXT	11/2007	Marcelo Bagnulo Julien Laganier	Mobility EXTensions for IPv6

MIP4	08/2003	Henrik Levkowetz Peter McCann	Mobility for IPv4

MIPSHOP	10/2003	Stefano Faccin Vijay Devarapalli	MIPv6 Signaling and Handoff Optimization

NETLMM	01/2006	Jonne Soininen Vidya Narayanan	Network-based Localized Mobility Management

NTP	02/2005	Karen O'Donoghue Brian Haberman	Network Time Protocol

PANA	11/2001	Basavaraj Patil Alper Yegin	Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access

PPPEXT	-	James Carlson	Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions

PWE3	05/2001	Stewart Bryant Danny McPherson	Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge to Edge

SHIM6	06/2005	Kurt Lindqvist Geoff Huston	Site Multihoming by IPv6 Intermediation

SOFTWIRE	12/2005	David Ward Alain Durand	Softwires

TICTOC	03/2008	Stewart Bryant Yaakov Stein	Timing over IP Connection and Transfer of Clock

TRILL	06/2005	Erik Nordmark Donald Eastlake	Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links

OPS

OPERATIONS and MANAGEMENT area

ADs: Ronald Bonica, Dan Romascanu

WG	Creation	Chair(s)

ADSLMIB	-	Michael Sneed Menachem Dodge	ADSL MIB

BMWG	-	Al Morton	Benchmarking Methodology

CAPWAP	01/2004	Margaret Wasserman Mahalingam Mani Dorothy Gellert	Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points

DIME	02/2006	David Frascone Hannes Tschofenig	Diameter Maintenance and Extensions

DNSOP	06/1999	Rob Austein Peter Koch	Domain Name System Operations

GROW	05/2003	Christopher Morrow Peter Schoenmaker	Global Routing Operations

IMSS	10/2003	David Black	Internet and Management Support for Storage

IPCDN	-	Richard Woundy Jean-François Mule	IP over Cable Data Network

IPFIX	09/2001	Nevil Brownlee Juergen Quittek	IP Flow Information Export

MBONED	-	Hiroshi Ohta Marshall Eubanks	MBONE Deployment

NETCONF	05/2003	Bert Wijnen Mehmet Ersue	Network Configuration

NETMOD	04/2008	David Partain David Harrington	NETCONF Data Modeling Language

OPSAWG	06/2007	Scott Bradner Ted Seely	Operations and Management Area Working Group

OPSEC	10/2004	Joel Jaeggli Joe Abley	Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure

PMOL	11/2007	Alan Clark Al Morton	Performance Metrics at Other Layers

PSAMP	08/2002	Juergen Quittek	Packet Sampling

RADEXT	07/2004	David Nelson Bernard Aboba	RADIUS EXTensions

V6OPS	09/2002	Fred Baker Kurt Lindqvist	IPv6 Operations

RAI

REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS and INFRASTRUCTURE area

ADs: Jon Peterson, Cullen Jennings

WG	Creation	Chair(s)

AVT	12/1992	Colin Perkins Tom Taylor Roni Even	Audio/Video Transport

BLISS	06/2007	Shida Schubert Jason Fischl	Basic Level of Interoperability for SIP Service

ECRIT	02/2005	Hannes Tschofenig Marc Linsner	Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies

ENUM	10/1999	Patrik Faltstrom Richard Shockey	Telephone Number Mapping

GEOPRIV	06/2001	Robert Sparks	Geographic Location/Privacy

IPTEL	08/1998	Jonathan Rosenberg	IP Telephony

MEDIACTRL	03/2007	Eric Burger Spencer Dawkins	Media Server Control

MMUSIC	07/1995	Joerg Ott Jean-François Mule	Multiparty Multimedia Session Control

P2PSIP	02/2007	David Bryan Brian Rosen	Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Session Initiation Protocol

SIGTRAN	11/1998	Lyndon Ong	Signaling Transport

SIMPLE	03/2001	Robert Sparks Hisham Khartabil	SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions

SIP	09/1999	Dean Willis Keith Drage	Session Initiation Protocol

SIPPING	11/2001	Mary Barnes Gonzalo Camarillo	Session Initiation Proposal Investigation

SPEECHSC	06/2002	David Oran Eric Burger	Speech Services Control

SPEERMINT	02/2006	Dave Meyer Jason Livingood	Session PEERing for Multimedia INTerconnect

XCON	10/2003	Adam Roach Alan Johnston	Centralized Conferencing

RTG

ROUTING area

ADs: David Ward, Ross Callon

WG	Creation	Chair(s)

BFD	06/2004	David Ward Jeffrey Haas	Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

CCAMP	02/2001	Adrian Farrel Deborah Brungard	Common Control and Measurement Plane

FORCES	07/2001	Patrick Droz David Putzolu	Forwarding and Control Element Separation

IDR	-	Susan Hares Yakov Rekhter	Inter-Domain Routing

ISIS	11/1998	Chris Hopps David Ward	IS-IS for IP Internets

L1VPN	06/2005	Hamid Ould-Brahim Adrian Farrel Tomonori Takeda	Layer 1 Virtual Private Networks

MANET	-	Joseph Macker Ian Chakeres	Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

MPLS	-	George Swallow Loa Anderson	Multiprotocol Label Switching

OSPF	-	Acee Lindem Abhay Roy	Open Shortest Path First IGP

PCE	01/2005	Adrian Farrel Jean-Philippe Vasseur	Path Computation Element

PIM	-	Mike McBride Stig Venaas	Protocol Independent Multicast

ROLL	02/2008	JP Vasseur David Culler	Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks

RPSEC	07/2002	Tony Tauber Russ White	Routing Protocol Security Requirements

RTGWG	02/2004	John Scudder Alex Zinin	Routing Area Working Group

SIDR	04/2006	Sandra Murphy Geoff Huston	Secure Inter-Domain Routing

VRRP	-	Radia Perlman Mukesh Gupta	Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

SEC

SECURITY area

ADs:Pasi Eronen, Tim Polk

WG	Creation	Chair(s)

BTNS	04/2005	Julien Laganier Love Hörnquist Åstrand	Better-Than-Nothing Security

DKIM	01/2006	Stephen Farrell Barry Leiba	Domain Keys Identified Mail

EMU	01/2006	Joseph Salowey	EAP Method Update

HOKEY	11/2006	Charles Clancy Glen Zorn	Handover Keying

ISMS	09/2004	Juergen Schoenwaelder Juergen Quittek	Integrated Security Model for SNMP

KEYPROV	01/2007	Phillip Hallam-Baker Hannes Tschofenig	Provisioning of Symmetric Keys

KITTEN	11/2004	Alexey Melnikov Shawn Emery	Kitten (GSS-API Next Generation)

KRB-WG	07/2000	Jeffrey Hutzelman Larry Zhu	Kerberos WG

LTANS	10/2003	Carl Wallace Tobias Gondrom	Long-Term Archive and Notary Services

MSEC	02/2001	Ran Canetti Lakshminath Dondeti	Multicast Security

NEA	11/2006	Susan Thomson Stephen Hanna	Network Endpoint Assessment

PKIX	-	Stephen Kent Stefan Santesson	Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509)

SASL	12/2002	Tom Yu Kurt Zeilenga	Simple Authentication and Security Layer

SMIME	-	Sean Turner Blake Ramsdell	S/MIME Mail Security

SYSLOG	05/2000	David Harrington Chris Lonvick	Security Issues in Network Event Logging

TLS	-	Eric Rescorla Pasi Eronen	Transport Layer Security

TSV

TRANSPORT area

ADs: Lars Eggert, Magnus Westerlund

WG	Creation	Chair(s)

BEHAVE	09/2004	Dan Wing	Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance

DCCP	07/2002	Thomas Phelan Gorry Fairhurst	Datagram Congestion Control Protocol

FECFRAME	05/2006	Greg Shepherd Marshall Eubanks	FEC Framework

IPPM	-	Henk Uijterwaal Matthew Zekauskas	IP Performance Metrics

NFSV4	-	Brian Pawlowski Spencer Shepler	Network File System Version 4

NSIS	11/2001	John Loughney Martin Stiemerling	Next Steps in Signaling

PCN	02/2007	Scott Bradner Steven Blake	Congestion and Pre-Congestion Notification

RMT	04/1999	Brian Adamson Lorenzo Vicisano	Reliable Multicast Transport

ROHC	03/2000	Carl Knutsson	Robust Header Compression

RSERPOOL	12/2000	Lyndon Ong Maureen Stillman	Reliable Server Pooling

TCPM	02/2004	Ted Faber Mark Allman	TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions

TSVWG	10/1999	James Polk Magnus Westerlund Lars Eggert	Transport Area Working Group

Top	Up	IETF	ISOC	IASA	IAB	IESG	RFC Editor	IANA
		IRTF	IRSG	IETF Meetings	Mailing Lists	BCPs	RFCs	I-Ds

ISOC -- Internet SOCiety

Link: http://www.isoc.org/

The Internet Society was founded in 1992 to promote the evolution and growth of the Internet as a global communications infrastructure, to provide support for the IETF, and to encourage the responsible and effective use of the Internet through education, discussion, and advice to public policy makers. ISOC is uniquely positioned at the intersection of development-oriented (technical) groups, public policy, and educational activities and serves as the hub of a global network of individuals and organisations that are collectively working toward the shared vision of an Internet that benefits everyone everywhere. The ISOC is managed by a Board of Trustees elected by the worldwide individual membership.

ISOC provides a major source of funding and support for the IETF and its processes. Notably, ISOC funds 100 percent of the RFC Editor function. Funding for these efforts is provided by ISOC Organisation Members as well as ISOC's Platinum Sponsors for Internet standards programmes: APNIC, ARIN, RIPE NCC, and Microsoft. ISOC's contributions also extend to policy and public relations support on behalf of the IETF as well as legal and insurance coverage. ISOC is the IETF's sole source of financial support apart from IETF meeting fees.

Top	Up	IETF	ISOC	IASA	IAB	IESG	RFC Editor	IANA
		IRTF	IRSG	IETF Meetings	Mailing Lists	BCPs	RFCs	I-Ds

IASA -- IETF Administrative Support Activity

Link: http://iaoc.ietf.org/

The structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) is documented in [RFC 4071].

The IASA, started in May 2005, provides the administrative structure required to support the IETF standards process and to support the IETF's technical activities. The IAOC (IETF Administrative Oversight Committee) directs and oversees the IASA. The IASA's staff initially consists of an IAD (IETF Administrative Director) who is responsible for administering the IETF finances and for establishing and administering the IASA budget.

Top	Up	IETF	ISOC	IASA	IAB	IESG	RFC Editor	IANA
		IRTF	IRSG	IETF Meetings	Mailing Lists	BCPs	RFCs	I-Ds

IAB -- Internet Architecture Board

Link: http://www.iab.org/

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is chartered by the Internet Society Trustees to provide oversight of the architecture of the Internet and its protocols. The IAB appoints the IETF chair and is responsible for approving other IESG candidates put forward by the IETF nominating committee. The IAB is also responsible for reviewing and approving the charters of new Working Groups that are proposed for the IETF.

The charter of the IAB is documented in [RFC 2850].

Top	Up	IETF	ISOC	IASA	IAB	IESG	RFC Editor	IANA
		IRTF	IRSG	IETF Meetings	Mailing Lists	BCPs	RFCs	I-Ds

IESG -- Internet Engineering Steering Group

Link: http://www.ietf.org/iesg.html

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) is the part of the Internet Society responsible for the management of the IETF technical activities. It administers the Internet Standards process according to the rules and procedures defined in [RFC 2026]. The IESG is responsible for the actions associated with the progression of technical specification along the "standards track" including the initial approval of new Working Groups and the final approval of specifications as Internet Standards. The IESG is composed of the IETF Area Directors and the chair of the IETF, who also serves as the chair of the IESG.

The members of the IESG are nominated by a nominations committee (the Nomcom), and are approved by the IAB.

The charter of the IESG is documented in [RFC 3710].

Top	Up	IETF	ISOC	IASA	IAB	IESG	RFC Editor	IANA
		IRTF	IRSG	IETF Meetings	Mailing Lists	BCPs	RFCs	I-Ds

RFC Editor

Link: http://www.rfc-editor.org/


	The RFC Editor edits, formats, and publishes Internet Drafts as RFCs, working in conjunction with the IESG. An important secondary role is to provide one definitive repository for all RFCs.

Top	Up	IETF	ISOC	IASA	IAB	IESG	RFC Editor	IANA
		IRTF	IRSG	IETF Meetings	Mailing Lists	BCPs	RFCs	I-Ds

IANA -- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

Link: http://www.iana.org/

Many protocol specifications include numbers, keywords, and other parameters that must be uniquely assigned. Examples include version numbers, protocol numbers, port numbers, and MIB numbers. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for assigning the values of these protocol parameters for the Internet.

For SIP, the links of interest are as follows:


	http://www.iana.org/assignments/sip-parameters

	http://www.iana.org/assignments/sip-events

	http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/

	http://www.iana.org/assignments/sdp-parameters

	http://www.iana.org/assignments/rtp-parameters

	http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-feature-tags

	http://www.iana.org/assignments/mail-cont-disp

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		IRTF	IRSG	IETF Meetings	Mailing Lists	BCPs	RFCs	I-Ds

IRTF -- Internet Research Task Force

Link: http://www.irtf.org/


	The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is not directly involved in the Internet standards process. It investigates topics considered to be too uncertain, too advanced, or insufficiently well-understood to be the subject of Internet standardization.

Top	Up	IETF	ISOC	IASA	IAB	IESG	RFC Editor	IANA
		IRTF	IRSG	IETF Meetings	Mailing Lists	BCPs	RFCs	I-Ds

IRSG -- Internet Research Steering Group


	The organization and program of work of the IRTF is overseen by the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG), which consists of the chairs of the IRTF Working Groups.

Top	Up	IETF	ISOC	IASA	IAB	IESG	RFC Editor	IANA
		IRTF	IRSG	IETF Meetings	Mailing Lists	BCPs	RFCs	I-Ds

IETF Meetings

Link: http://www.ietf.org/meetings/meetings.html


	Here is the link to the last issues of the IETF Journal: http://ietfjournal.isoc.org/ The Internet Society will publish three issues per year, following each of the IETF meetings.
	Here is a summary of past and planned IETF meetings.


#	1	1986	San Diego	21
#	2	1986	Aberdeen	21
#	3	1986	Ann Arbor	18
#	4	1986	Menlo Park	35
#	5	1987	Moffett Field	35
#	6	1987	Boston	88
#	7	1987	McLean	101
#	8	1987	Boulder	56
#	9	1988	San Diego	82
#	10	1988	Annapolis	112
#	11	1988	Ann Arbor	114
#	12	1989	Austin	120
#	13	1989	Cocoa Beach	114
#	14	1989	Stanford	217
#	15	1989	Honolulu	138
#	16	1990	Tallahassee	196
#	17	1990	Pittsburgh	244
#	18	1990	Vancouver	293
#	19	1990	Boulder	292
#	20	1991	St. Louis	348
#	21	1991	Atlanta	387
#	22	1991	Santa Fe	372
#	23	1992	San Diego	530
#	24	1992	Cambridge	677
#	25	1992	Washington	633


#	26	1993	Columbus	638
#	27	1993	Amsterdam	493
#	28	1993	Houston	636
#	29	1994	Seattle	785
#	30	1994	Toronto	710
#	31	1994	San Jose	1079
#	32	1995	Danvers	983
#	33	1995	Stockholm	617
#	34	1995	Dallas	1007
#	35	1996	Los Angeles	1038
#	36	1996	Montreal	1283
#	37	1996	San Jose	1993
#	38	1997	Memphis	1321
#	39	1997	Munich	1308
#	40	1997	Washington	1897
#	41	1998	Los Angeles	1775
#	42	1998	Chicago	2106
#	43	1998	Orlando	2124
#	44	1999	Minneapolis	1705
#	45	1999	Oslo	1710
#	46	1999	Washington	2379
#	47	2000	Adelaide	1431
#	48	2000	Pittsburgh	2344
#	49	2000	San Diego	2810
#	50	2001	Minneapolis	1822


#	51	2001	London	2226
#	52	2001	Salt Lake City	1691
#	53	2002	Minneapolis	1656
#	54	2002	Yokohama	1885
#	55	2002	Atlanta	1570
#	56	2003	San Francisco	1679
#	57	2003	Vienna	1304
#	58	2003	Minneapolis	1233
#	59	2004	Seoul	1390
#	60	2004	San Diego	1460
#	61	2004	Washington	1311
#	62	2005	Minneapolis	1133
#	63	2005	Paris	1450
#	64	2005	Vancouver	1240
#	65	2006	Dallas	1264
#	66	2006	Montreal	1257
#	67	2006	San Diego	1245
#	68	2007	Prague	1193
#	69	2007	Chicago	1175
#	70	2007	Vancouver	1128
#	71	2008	Philadelphia	1305
#	72	2008	Dublin

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IETF Mailing Lists

Link: http://www.ietf.org/maillist.html


	Much of the daily work of the IETF is conducted on electronic mailing lists. There are discussion mailing lists for each of the working groups, as well as an IETF general discussion list, an IETF announcement list, and an Internet-Draft (I-D) announcement list.

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BCPs (Best Current Practices) related to IETF Standardization Process

BCP-009
RFC2026
10/1996
(36 p.)
[html]
[pdf(2)]

S. Bradner

The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3

This memo documents the process used by the Internet community for the standardization of protocols and procedures. It defines the stages in the standardization process, the requirements for moving a document between stages and the types of documents used during this process. It also addresses the intellectual property rights and copyright issues associated with the standards process.


Up	Status:	Best Current Practice

BCP-010
RFC3777
06/2004
(34 p.)
[html]
[pdf(2)]

J. Galvin

IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees

The process by which the members of the IAB and IESG are selected, confirmed, and recalled is specified. This document is a self-consistent, organized compilation of the process as it was known at the time of publication.


Up	Status:	Best Current Practice

BCP-011
RFC2028
10/1996
(7 p.)
[html]
[pdf(2)]

R. Hovey
S. Bradner

The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process

This document describes the individuals and organizations involved in the IETF. This includes descriptions of the IESG, the IETF Working Groups and the relationship between the IETF and the Internet Society.


Up	Status:	Best Current Practice

BCP-025
RFC2418
09/1998
(26 p.)
[html]
[pdf(2)]

S. Bradner

IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has responsibility for developing and reviewing specifications intended as Internet Standards. IETF activities are organized into working groups (WGs). This document describes the guidelines and procedures for formation and operation of IETF working groups. It also describes the formal relationship between IETF participants WG and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and the basic duties of IETF participants, including WG Chairs, WG participants, and IETF Area Directors.


Up	Status:	Best Current Practice

BCP-039
RFC2850
05/2000
(8 p.)
[html]
[pdf(2)]

B. Carpenter

Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)

This memo documents the composition, selection, roles, and organization of the Internet Architecture Board.


Up	Status:	Best Current Practice

BCP-058
RFC3233
02/2002
(4 p.)
[html]
[pdf(2)]

P. Hoffman
S. Bradner

Defining the IETF

This document gives a more concrete definition of "the IETF" as it understood today. Many RFCs refer to "the IETF". Many important IETF documents speak of the IETF as if it were an already-defined entity. However, no IETF document correctly defines what the IETF is.


Up	Status:	Best Current Practice

BCP-078
RFC3978
03/2005
(18 p.)
[html]
[pdf(2)]

S. Bradner

IETF Rights in Contributions

The IETF policies about rights in Contributions to the IETF are designed to ensure that such Contributions can be made available to the IETF and Internet communities while permitting the authors to retain as many rights as possible. This memo details the IETF policies on rights in Contributions to the IETF. It also describes the objectives that the policies are designed to meet. This memo updates RFC 2026, and, with RFC 3979, replaces Section 10 of RFC 2026.


Up	Status:	Best Current Practice

BCP-079
RFC3979
03/2005
(17 p.)
[html]
[pdf(2)]

S. Bradner

Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology

The IETF policies about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), such as patent rights, relative to technologies developed in the IETF are designed to ensure that IETF working groups and participants have as much information about any IPR constraints on a technical proposal as possible. The policies are also intended to benefit the Internet community and the public at large, while respecting the legitimate rights of IPR holders. This memo details the IETF policies concerning IPR related to technology worked on within the IETF. It also describes the objectives that the policies are designed to meet. This memo updates RFC 2026 and, with RFC 3978, replaces Section 10 of RFC 2026. This memo also updates paragraph 4 of Section 3.2 of RFC 2028, for all purposes, including reference [2] in RFC 2418.


Up	Status:	Best Current Practice