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IETF rejects wiretapping plan
News The Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) has voted overwhelmingly to reject plans for a global standard for snooping on Net telephone calls Thursday. The IETF was considering designing a protocol to allow wiretapping of telephone calls made over...
[November 11, 1999, 12:13]
Briton appointed chair of IETF
News The Internet Society has announced that Brian Carpenter has been appointed the next chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body responsible for most of the standards that the Internet is built upon.
[March 4, 2005, 16:45]
Configuring Session Initiation Protocol for Voice Over IP
White Papers SIP is an alternative protocol developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for multimedia conferencing over IP. SIP features are compliant with IETF RFC 2543, SIP: Session Initiation Protocol, published in March 1999.
[December 27, 2004, 3:06]
W3C shows why innovation needs standards
Leader The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have announced the release of some new standards which look set to widen what we can do with the Internet and its technologies.
[January 27, 2005, 12:25]
Microsoft criticised for IP address configuration patent
Talkback It should also mention that Microsoft specifically revealed this patent to the IETF (the Internet Engineering Task Force) about in August 2000, and it has been on prominent public display ever since. If PUBPAT's quotes in this article are correct...
[March 24, 2005, 1:24]
Microsoft: Stuck between a rock and a hard patch?
Talkback RFC 1738 has been replaced by RFC 2396 and explicitly notes that the the user:password scheme is "NOT RECOMMENDED", which in IETF parlance means "do not implement this feature" Microsoft's implementation therefore is more in compliance with IETF...
[February 6, 2004, 16:15]
Delivering IP-Based Voice Services With SIP
White Papers Notable examples include the IETF clarifications of procedures for transferring calls, and new requests for comment (RFCs) and drafts to support the administration and attendant features common to PBXs and call centers.
[December 20, 2004, 23:00]
Perens takes on Internet standard body
News That's the logic behind free-software advocate Bruce Perens' idea to pack the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a key Internet standard body, with like-minded members in advance of the group's spring meeting in San Francisco.
[November 26, 2002, 10:28]
Free-software gadfly takes on Net group
News That's the logic behind free-software advocate Bruce Perens' idea to pack the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a key Internet standard body, with like-minded members in advance of the group's spring meeting in San Francisco.
[November 25, 2002, 14:52]
RADIUS: Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
White Papers Lucent has worked with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to define RADIUS as an interoperable method for distributed security on the Internet. RADIUS was designed based on a previous recommendation from the IETF's Network Access Server...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
AOL dumps Microsoft's Sender ID
News The move follows concerns over Sender ID voiced by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) earlier this week. In a prepared statement, Microsoft said: "AOL's decision to conduct only 'MAIL FROM' checks as outlined in the original SPF proposal...
[September 17, 2004, 10:05]
Porn spammers sneak images into Outlook
Talkback Embedded images have been around for many years now, and are part of the IETF email standards. So you need to credit the IETF with the “invention” - not the spammers. You really need to get your facts right.
[June 22, 2004, 11:26]
Standards spat could cause MPLS downtime
News The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has locked horns with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) over future MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) standards. The IETF claims that T-MPLS will not work with existing carrier and...
[September 6, 2007, 13:30]
W3C backs XML-based digital signature
News The World Wide Web Consortium's ( W3C) XML Signature recommendation, developed in conjunction with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), provides a standard way of signing XML documents so that recipients can verify the identity of the...
[February 15, 2002, 11:20]
Concerns raised over plans for global wiretap
News According to civil liberties advocates the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is currently working on protocols to intercept such calls. One group, Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties, sent an open letter to the IETF urging them against research...
[November 11, 1999, 10:22]
Alarm over 'pharming' attacks
Talkback Currently it is still in draft stage in the IETF, to be published as an RFC soon, but there are several DNS implementations that are DNSSEC aware. See http://www.dnssec.net for more information, or the IETF homepage (http://www.ietf.org/)
[February 24, 2005, 11:46]
Microsoft and AOL get the message
News After months of an intense game of cat-and-mouse, where AOL continually blocked Microsoft's attempts to link MSN Messenger users with AOL Instant Messenger users, the two companies are now participating in an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF...
[October 14, 1999, 10:03]
A Reliable Subcasting Protocol for Wireless Environments
White Papers The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used manage group membership whereas the IETF's Mobile IP offers support to user mobility and a care-of address (temporary IP address). Each RS has a retransmission subcast address shared by its...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Researchers work on privacy protocols for IP
News Formed last month and introduced at a recent Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) session, the group was spearheaded by Zero-Knowledge, which develops privacy technology, and Harvard University researcher Scott Bradner, who is also an area...
[December 13, 2000, 9:29]
Microsoft accused of staking claim to the Internet
News Larry Blunk, a developer and researcher for Merit Network, wrote an email on 30 October outlining his concerns to the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Intellectual Property working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the...
[November 10, 2004, 11:43]
