Watch #IETF123 Live! Live video streams of select sessions on emerging Internet technologies—and on-demand recordings of all meeting sessions, including working groups, Birds of a Feather gatherings and more are available at: https://www.ietf.org/live/
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If it were widely deployed, technology developed in the #SIDRops Working Group could quickly detect and defeat route hijack attacks that cause malicious rerouting of Internet traffic. Read more about a recent event affecting DNS: https://www.ietf.org/blog/sidrops-and-avoidable-route-hijacks/
Looking to get started in something new? These #IETF123 meeting sessions are likely to include discussions and proposals that are accessible to a broad range of Internet technologists whether they are new to the IETF or long-time participants: https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf123-new-topics/
Welcome to Verisign as the newest IETF Global Host—a multi-year commitment at the highest tier of meeting sponsorship! The commitment and generous contributions of Global Hosts and sponsors provides critical support for the work of the IETF community: https://www.ietf.org/blog/global-host-verisign
The new Environmental Impacts of Internet Technology (E-Impact) program's first virtual interim meeting on 15-16 Feb 2024 is open to participation, with all interested community members invited to join. Details in the latest post by the program co-chairs: https://www.ietf.org/blog/eimpact-program-workshop/
Watch select sessions from #IETF123 Live! Starting on 23 July with the @intarchboard@mastodon.online open session and the plenary session. And, recordings from all other meeting sessions are available on demand: https://www.ietf.org/live/
The #IETF123 meeting is underway! More than 1500 participants around the world—in Madrid and online—are working on emerging Internet technologies through 25 July 2025. Thanks to host Ericsson, and to all the meeting sponsors, for their support: https://www.ietf.org/meeting/123/
REMINDER! If you have a topic for discussion or an idea about possible work to share during #IETF123, Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions are one way to get initial conversations started. Consider submitting a BOF proposal by 23 May. More information at: https://www.ietf.org/process/bofs/
A Journey from Surathkal to the IETF: #IETF122 Bangkok marked the first in-person participation for final-year undergraduate students majoring in Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) in India. Read more: https://www.ietf.org/blog/our-first-ietf-experience/
Do you have a topic for discussion or an idea about possible work to share during #IETF123? Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions are one way to get initial conversations started. Consider submitting a BOF proposal by 23 May. More information at: https://www.ietf.org/process/bofs/
Have an idea for a topic of discussion or possible new work in the IETF? Organizing a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session is one way to bring it to the attention of the IETF community. Submissions are being accepted now for BOFs during #IETF124. More info at: https://www.ietf.org/process/bofs/
The AI Preferences (AIPREF) Working Group began work this year to make it easier to express how AI models should use Internet content. With work underway and a compressed timeline for delivery, read the latest update on progress so far and the path ahead: https://www.ietf.org/blog/ai-pref-progress/
The Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (GREEN) working group will meet for the first time during #IETF121 to explore use cases, derive requirements, and provide solutions related to energy consumption of network devices across the Internet. More https://www.ietf.org/blog/green-wg/
Registration is now open for #IETF125 Shenzhen! Plan to join 1000+ leading Internet technologist in person and online 14-20 March 2026 for 100+ working sessions, an #IETFHackathon, and more. Details at: https://www.ietf.org/meeting/125/
IETF IT service window: A 2-hour service window starting at 1900 UTC on 14 August 2025 is planned to allow a change in the underlying cloud infrastructure, improving performance, reliability, and manageability of the affected services. Read more: https://www.ietf.org/blog/it-infrastructure-outage-2024-08-14/
The #IETF118 Prague meeting in early November was productive and full of lively discussions fueled by 1806 onsite and remote participants. @intarchboard@mastodon.online member Christopher A. Wood shares some highlights from the meeting: https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf118-highlights/
The #IETF123 @irtf@discuss.systems Open Session featured Haarika Manda and Hendrick Chech presenting their ANRP-winning research on Internet access inequities and LEO satellite network measurements and analysis. Watch the full presentations: https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf123-anrp/
The #IETF123 meeting is wrapping up! 1700+ participants around the world came together—in Madrid & online—to work on emerging Internet technologies and issues. Thanks to host Ericsson and to all the meeting sponsors for their support. On demand recordings let you watch any of the 100+ sessions you may have missed: https://ietf.org/live/
More #IETF123 livestreaming! "Migrating Telecom to Quantum-Resistant Cryptography on a Global Scale" at 11:15 UTC on 24 July 2025 presented by John Preuß Mattsson, an expert in cryptographic algorithms and security protocols at Ericsson Research: https://www.ietf.org/live/ietf123-host-speaker-series/
Super early registration for #IETF123 ends in less than a month! Register today to join 1000+ leading Internet technologists from around the world 19-25 July 2025 in Madrid or online. Never participated in an IETF Meeting before? Check it out here: https://youtu.be/bXNb-Oa4UJw
Members of the @intarchboard@mastodon.online the Internet Engineering Steering Group, the IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors, and the IETF Trust were announced just before the recent #IETF119 meeting, where several of the groups met in-person for the first time: https://www.ietf.org/blog/nomcom-announcement-2024/