Internet Architecture Board (iab)
IETF | Name | Internet Architecture Board | |
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Acronym | iab | ||
State | Active | ||
Additional resources |
IAB Website Issue tracker, Wiki |
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Personnel | Ex Officio Member | Colin Perkins | |
Chair | Tommy Pauly | ||
Delegate | Cindy Morgan | ||
Members |
Alissa Cooper Alvaro Retana Christopher A. Wood Cullen Fluffy Jennings David Schinazi Dhruv Dhody Matthew Bocci Mirja Kühlewind Qin Wu Roman Danyliw Suresh Krishnan Tommy Pauly Wes Hardaker |
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Liaison Members | John Scudder, Ryan Polk | ||
Mailing list | Address | iab@iab.org | |
Archive |
Group description
The Internet Architecture Board provides long-range technical direction for Internet development, ensuring the Internet continues to grow and evolve as a platform for global communication and innovation.
In its work, the IAB strives to:
- Ensure that the Internet is a trusted medium of communication that provides a solid technical foundation for privacy and security, especially in light of pervasive surveillance,
- Establish the technical direction for an Internet that will enable billions more people to connect, support the vision for an Internet of Things, and allow mobile networks to flourish, while keeping the core capabilities that have been a foundation of the Internet’s success, and
- Promote the technical evolution of an open Internet without special controls, especially those which hinder trust in the network.
The IAB is responsible for:
- Providing architectural oversight of Internet protocols and procedures
- Liaising with other organizations on behalf of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- Reviewing appeals of the Internet standards process
- Managing Internet standards documents (the RFC series) and protocol parameter value assignment
- Confirming the Chair of the IETF and the IETF Area Directors
- Selecting the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Chair
- Acting as source of advice and guidance to the Internet Society
The IAB convenes workshops of specialists, initiates and executes specific work programs, and writes documents that lead to comprehensive technical analyses of matters of interest. While its work may influence the industry broadly, the IAB does not operate from a grand-architecture blueprint of, or vision for, the Internet. Rather, the IAB’s efforts are guided by fundamental design principles—the Internet’s building blocks and their interactions—that make the global open Internet what it is. The IAB also helps connect different fields of expertise when this is needed to understand the full situation affecting the evolution of the Internet. For instance technology, policy and other considerations often impact each other.
The IAB is comprised of 13 members who serve as individuals, and not as representatives of any company, agency, or other organization. The IAB is chartered both as a committee of the IETF and an advisory body of the Internet Society. Further details about the IAB are documented in RFC 2850.
Groups in IAB
Group | Name | Type |
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IAB Open Meeting | AG | |
Independent Stream Open Meeting | AG | |
IAB-ISOC Policy Coordination | IAB ASG | |
IETF-3GPP | IAB ASG | |
IETF-IANA | IAB ASG | |
IETF-IEEE | IAB ASG | |
IETF-W3C | IAB ASG | |
Evolvability, Deployability, & Maintainability | Program | |
Environmental Impacts of Internet Technology | Program | |
IAB Workshop on AI-CONTROL | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Analyzing IETF Data | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Barriers to Internet Access of Services (BIAS) | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale | Team | |
IAB/IRTF Workshop on Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Communication | Team | |
IAB Workshop: Design Expectations vs Deployment Reality in Protocol Development | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Explicit Internet Naming Systems | Team | |
Exploring Synergy between Content Aggregation and the Publisher Ecosystem | Team | |
IAB Workshop on IoT Semantic Interoperability | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Internet of Things Software Update | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Internet Technology Adoption and Transition | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Managing Radio Networks in an Encrypted World | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Measuring Network Quality for End-Users | Team | |
IAB workshop on Management Techniques in Encrypted Networks (M-TEN) | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Network Management | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Internet Privacy | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Routing and Addressing | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Interconnecting Smart Objects with the Internet | Team | |
W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Unwanted Traffic | Team | |
IAB Workshop on Wireless Internetworking | Team |