July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 10m
English
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the primary organization for Internet protocol standards. The IETF is an open organization that has evolved over many years and is currently under the general supervision of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). The first general IETF meeting was held in July 1986. IETF participants are volunteers, and the group has no defined membership. Funding comes from meeting attendance fees, contributions, and the Internet Society [ISOC]. You can learn more about the IETF from its Web site; see [IETF] for more information.
The IETF series of permanent documents is most analogous to a series of numbered books on a shelf. ...
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