LDAP Implementation Cookbook

C.4. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open international community to design and discuss future Internet technologies. The people belonging to this group are network designers, operators, and researchers from commercial and non-commercial organizations. The task is to design open standards for common use in the Internet. The group is open to any interested individual.

The actual work of the IETF is done in workgroups, which are organized by topics into several areas, for example routing, transport, security, and so on. The workgroups are grouped into areas and managed by area directors. These area directors are members of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Providing architectural ...