[Chapter-delegates] A Rough Guide to ISOC's IETF73 Hot Topics

Thu Nov 13 02:03:15 PST 2008

Hello Anne,

I have also posted it on the Chennai chapter list. This communication from
you would certainly help some of us to try and understand the work at IETF
and possibly contribute to the process.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Franck Martin <franck at avonsys.com> wrote:

> It is a vry good initiative, to get the technical people in our chapters
> interested in IETF. Even if we are not able to contribute, but we can
> understand and explain...
>
> I forwarded the mail to our chapter. Please carry on the good work.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anne Lord" <lord at isoc.org>
> To: "Alejandro Pisanty" <apisan at servidor.unam.mx>
> Cc: "Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 13 November, 2008 8:20:16 PM (GMT+1200) Auto-Detected
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] A Rough Guide to ISOC's IETF73 Hot Topics
>
> Hi Alejandro
>
> Thanks for your kind words and I am glad that it is useful. Kudos
> goes to my colleagues in Standards & Technology headed by Leslie
> Daigle, who put it together.
>
> I think it would be great if you can share the Spanish text with
> others on this list.
>
> Many thanks,
> Anne
> --
>
> On 13/11/2008, at 3:54 PM, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
>
> > Dear Anne,
> >
> > kudos for creating and sharing this excellent resource. I have just
> > sent it out to ISOC Mexico's members, with additional explanatory
> > text in Spanish (I'll be glad to share that with other chapters if
> > you wish.)
> >
> > Your text seems to have selected very well subjects which will
> > resonate more with chapters, where in general there is less of an
> > IETF-primary inclination and more instead of a conjunction of
> > concerns on technology, society, and public policy issues coming
> > together.
> >
> > Thanks in the name of the many who will also like this resource!
> >
> > Alx
> >
> >
> > .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .  .  .  .
> >  .  .
> >      Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
> > UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico
> >
> > Tels. +52-(1)-55-5105-6044, +52-(1)-55-5418-3732
> >
> > *Mi blog/My blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com
> > *LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty
> > *Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/
> > 22285/4A106C0C8614
> >
> > ---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, http://www.isoc.org
> >  Participa en ICANN, http://www.icann.org
> > .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
> >   .  .
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Anne Lord wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:12:10 +1000
> >> From: Anne Lord <lord at isoc.org>
> >> To: Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> >> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] A Rough Guide to ISOC's IETF73 Hot
> >> Topics
> >> Dear Colleagues,
> >>
> >> ISOC's Standards & Technology group has put together the following
> >> information as a "rough guide" to hot topics in the forthcoming IETF.
> >>
> >> They are also seeking feedback on whether this information is
> >> useful to you as a participant or potential participant (remote or
> >> in person). Comments are welcome on or off list.
> >>
> >> Best wishes
> >>
> >> Anne
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> A Rough Guide to ISOC's IETF73 Hot Topics
> >>
> >> ISOC's Standards & Technology department offers the following
> >> "rough guide" to hot topics being discussed at the 73rd IETF
> >> meeting in Minneapolis (November 16-21, 2008).  This simply
> >> indicates which meeting sessions are particularly focused on the
> >> following topics:
> >>
> >> - Bandwidth Management
> >> - IPv4/IPv6 Coexistence
> >> - DNSSEC
> >> - Trust and Identity
> >>
> >> Remote participation in all meetings will be possible -- see
> >> specific meetings listed on http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/73/ for
> >> access to audio stream and jabber rooms.  That page also includes
> >> links to helpful tarballs of documents being discussed at
> >> meetings, etc.
> >>
> >> For the full IETF meeting plan and agenda, see http://www.ietf.org/
> >> meetings/73/
> >>
> >>
> >> Bandwidth Management
> >> --------------------
> >> As P2P and VoIP technologies become more prevalent, and network
> >> usage patterns sometimes deviate from their architects'
> >> expectations, management of bandwidth to allow best use for
> >> customers becomes an increasingly important topic.
> >>
> >> Key meetings at IETF73:
> >>
> >> ALTO WG -- application techniques for identifying and using
> >> bandwidth parameters.
> >>
> >> Designing and specifying a service that will provide applications
> >> with
> >> information to perform better-than-random initial peer selection
> >> based on factors including maximum bandwidth, minimum cross-domain
> >> traffic, lowest cost to the user, etc.
> >>
> >> Currently scheduled:  Tuesday, November 18, 13:00-15:00
> >> WG agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/73/alto.html
> >> WG page: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/alto-charter.html
> >>
> >> LEDBAT WG -- alternative transport congestion management techniques
> >> Chartered to standardize a congestion control mechanism that
> >> should saturate the bottleneck, maintain low delay, and yield to
> >> standard TCP.
> >> What this means in practice - applications that do large
> >> background transfers (e.g. P2P apps) could use this mechanism and
> >> would then automatically yield in the presence of bursty web
> >> traffic, or other TCP-using apps. Particularly useful for P2P
> >> uploads on thin home uplinks.
> >>
> >> Currently scheduled:  Thursday, November 20, 13:00-15:00
> >> WG agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/73/ledbat.html [not
> >> available as of this writing]
> >> WG page: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ledbat-charter.html
> >>
> >>
> >> IPv4/IPv6 Coexistence
> >> ---------------------
> >> As there is increasing momentum to deploy IPv6, as well as
> >> recognition that IPv4 and IPv6 network realities must coexist,
> >> work is being done to develop specifications to allow
> >> interoperable behaviour between networked realities.
> >>
> >> BEHAVE WG -- NAT standardization WG
> >> Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT), alternatives to CGNAT, new approaches
> >> to v4/v6 translation, IPv6 NAT
> >>
> >> Currently scheduled for 3 meeting sessions from Wed through Friday
> >> WG page: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/behave-charter.html
> >> WG agenda:  http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/73/behave.html
> >>
> >>
> >> SOFTWIRE WG -- DSlite dual stack
> >> Tunneling IPv6 over IPv4 to enable incremental IPv6 deployment and
> >> to address the imminent IPv4 address shortage for large providers.
> >>
> >> Currently scheduled:  Thursday, November 20, 17:40-19:30
> >> WG page: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/softwire-charter.html
> >> WG agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/73/softwire.html [not
> >> available as of this writing]
> >>
> >>
> >> DNSSEC
> >> ------
> >> While the US Department of Commerce is calling for input on the
> >> question of signing the DNS root (using DNSSEC), IETF working
> >> group discussions will be focused on refinements of the
> >> technology, and consideration of implications of IPv6 NATing (for
> >> coexistence with IPv4) and DNSSEC.
> >>
> >> DNSEXT WG -- DNS extensions
> >>
> >> Currently scheduled:  Tuesday, November 18, 15:20-17:00
> >> WG page:  http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/dnsext-charter.html
> >> WG agenda:  http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/73/dnsext.html
> >>
> >> BEHAVE WG -- for implications of DNSSEC & v4/v6 NATing
> >>
> >> WG page: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/behave-charter.html
> >> WG agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/73/behave.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Issues of Trust and Identity
> >> ----------------------------
> >> As concerns increase about security of infrastructure, privacy,
> >> trust and identity on the Internet, these themes are appearing in
> >> several working group discussions.
> >>
> >> DKIM WG -- e-mail infrastructure
> >> Currently scheduled:  Thursday, November 20, 13:00-15:00
> >> WG page:  http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/dkim-charter.html
> >> WG agenda:  http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/73/dkim.html
> >>
> >>
> >> GEOPRIV WG -- privacy issues
> >> Currently scheduled:  Tuesday, November 18, 09:00-11:30
> >> WG page:  http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/geopriv-charter.html
> >> WG agenda:  http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/73/geopriv.html
> >>
> >>
> >> SIDR WG -- resource certification
> >> Currently scheduled:  Monday, November 17, 13:00-15:00
> >> WG page:  http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/sidr-charter.html
> >> WG agenda:  http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/73/sidr.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
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