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SIP flaw causes problems for Cisco
News It was developed through the IETF SIP working group, and a number of related RFCs are linked from the Columbia University SIP page. New protocols sometimes take a while to settle in, and vulnerabilities are not always exposed straight away.
[March 10, 2003, 10:00]
Open encryption to combat spam and phishing
News Open standards encryption specifications also received a boost this week with the release of an email encryption specification by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an open community concerned with the evolution of internet architecture.
[May 25, 2007, 16:21]
Cisco offers tunnel-less VPN
News Cisco has submitted the idea to the IETF, an international standards body. Cisco is to offer a tunnel-less VPN, which could solve some of the challenges of securing WAN traffic. At the moment many organisations use IPSec encryption to create secure...
[December 8, 2006, 16:06]
Nokia launches first phone-based VPN
News In addition to 3DES, Nokia's VPN client will also support Nokia's own Challenge Response Authentication Cryptographic Key (Crack) encryption, which is currently before the IETF standards body. In an effort to address shortcomings with security of...
[March 15, 2002, 16:00]
Yahoo adds anti-spam tool, ups email storage
News Meng Wong, SPF author and chief technology officer of Pobox.com, has filed for standardisation with the IETF as well. Yahoo on Monday will begin attaching anti-spam technology to all of its outgoing emails, hoping that other providers will follow...
[November 15, 2004, 8:30]
Network Associates buys PGP
News So far, PGP appears to be winning the hearts of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) because it is based upon the public Diffie-Hellman algorithm. Network Associates of Santa Clara, Calif.has signed a deal to buy Pretty Good Privacy Inc.for...
[December 2, 1997, 10:48]
Businesses failing to secure IP telephony
News Vyncke added that two techniques have been developed which could help to solve the problem: the Stun protocol (Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol through Network Address Translators) and ICE (Interactive Connectivity Establishment — a...
[October 24, 2007, 17:36]
Privacy concerns skewing Web statistics
Talkback Can't we have the IETF or whatever body revoke the Internet adresses of people who misbehave this way? Heist by their own petard! Who are we supposed to feel sorry for? Surely not the people "relying on" this data?
[March 16, 2005, 11:57]
VoIP spam tipped to rocket
News And several individuals within the IETF international standards body have written drafts suggesting ways to limit its spread. NEC has warned businesses that telephony spam levels are about to soar. Telephony spam could soon comprise over half of...
[January 29, 2007, 15:46]
Is your protocol upgrade really necessary?
News The IETF predicted that the world would run out of addresses at a 'Date of Doom': March 1994. It is a truism of computing that if something's old, it must be updated. With nearly 30 years under its belt, the IP protocol has provoked a genuine...
[March 8, 2002, 12:09]
Warning issued on international domains
News But James Seng of the IETF working group suggested that a relatively short-term solution is needed, and that its Nameprep specification (a proposed method of preprocessing names so that equivalents in different scripts will be matched) is actually...
[March 13, 2001, 10:24]
Making the call for VoIP standards
News It was created by the IETF, and like H.323 has grown a number of related protocols -- SIP-CPL, the Call Processing Language, is a scripting language based on XML tags, SIP-CGI defines how server-resident scripts can communicate with applications...
[July 31, 2002, 8:03]
Instant Messaging: Internal servers or public services?
News This IETF standard is based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), a signaling protocol that is used to establish Internet telephone calls, multimedia conferences, and chat sessions. If you consider the implications that instant messaging (IM...
[December 15, 2002, 18:47]
XML 6: Microsoft has adopted XML. Will it bring it up nicely?
News Microsoft has submitted an Internet draft specification to the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) called SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), an XML-based architecture that it hopes will connect different object models over the Internet...
[November 10, 1999, 11:03]
Sun's plans...and how they could go wrong
Talkback Open Source software is starting to pull the strings on emerging standards like the recent email SenderID fiasco in the IETF with Microsoft. I really enjoyed reading your article on ZDnet about Sun's plans.
[September 24, 2004, 14:01]
Enterprise listens to instant messages
News SIP is the Session Initiation Protocol from the IETF, and provides a way for two agents on a network to establish a connection with each other. Instant messaging or IM is a case in point: originally a consumer-only Internet chatter tool, it rapidly...
[May 15, 2003, 11:13]
Enterprises get the Instant Message
News In 1997, in the fall, we formed an IETF group. In use by millions of people at work and at home, it remains much the same as its anarchistic antecedent, Internet Relay Chat. Yet American company IMLogic, headed up by ex-Microsoft real-time...
[October 8, 2003, 12:25]
Compression box boosts network bandwidths
News An Internet standards body, the IETF, has created a standard: IPPC for Layer 3 compression, which will allow traffic to be compressed before it is encrypted. The Peribit SR-50 is a standalone box that effectively turns 256kbps lines into 1mbps lines.
[May 31, 2002, 16:23]
Talks on IM harmony falter
News Talks held by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that aimed to set technical specifications allowing rivals such as AOL Time Warner, Microsoft, Yahoo and others to develop a joint IM platform have stalled, according to people close to the...
[June 11, 2001, 9:10]
Fibre channel competitor wins approval
News Late on Tuesday, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approved the iSCSI standard. A key standards body has given its blessing for a new technology that allows storage area networks to be built using existing Ethernet networking.
[February 13, 2003, 13:11]
