New Internet Generation - Internet Standardization Bodies

Internet Standardization Bodies

The Information given below contains a summary of lecture five of the course New Internet Generation. The lecture of standardization bodies was all about IETF, which stands for Engineering Task Force and has the objective to improve the internet in every way possible. IETF contains of different segments according to different fields of expertise. Many network designers, researchers, operators and other groups are involved in the Internet Engineering Task Force. The job of all the researches and operators is improve the internet, which is a very difficult task due the fact besides the changes of the internet the IETF is facing changes in societies and more global interaction all over the world. The groups that are part of the IETF are trying to improve internet of the future users by designing technical reports and documents that influence the decision making of the group of designers of the web. Everybody with or without intellectual knowledge about these topics can enter the IETF to help the process go more profitable.

IETF can be divided into different groups for example ISOC which stands for Internet society, IESG, that stands for Internet Engineering Steering Group and many more like IAB, IANA,RFC and IETF trust.

During lecture five all the positive and negative sides of the whole IETF project were explained. In my opinion this section of the future internet development technologies is very important for the future development opportunities of every individual internet user, specially because anyone can enter the Engineering Task force.