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Alan Cox hails 64-bit Linux
News He also criticised new guidelines suggested by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) covering the reporting of software security holes. A recent draft protocol from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), for example, has been criticised...
[March 6, 2002, 9:53]
Open letter to Steve Case
News Cc: Vijay Saraswat, Internet Engineering Task Force As you know, The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the...
[July 30, 1999, 14:50]
IETF and OMA Architectures for Mobile Email
White Papers The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) both have architectures to support mobile email. Internet mobile email uses the same architecture, and the standard email protocols can be used.
[January 7, 2008, 0:01]
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]
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]
Bug-reporting guidelines get swatted
News Members of the security section of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the organisation that sets technical standards on the Net, signalled in comments on the draft submitted in February that human procedures are not its purview, said Steve...
[March 19, 2002, 11:17]
LEMONADE Profile: The Key Standard for Mobile Messaging
White Papers LEMONADE is the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) technology being standardized for support of Mobile Email. The LEMONADE Profile was published as an Internet Standard (RFC 4550) in June 2006. This paper explains what the LEMONADE Profile is...
[January 7, 2008, 0:01]
Storage Design - Have You Considered iSCSI?
White Papers internet SCSI (iSCSI) is an official standard ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (RFC 3720, RFC 3783) that allows the use of the SCSI protocol over TCP/IP networks.iSCSI technology is well accepted in corporate production environments...
[October 20, 2006, 1:00]
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. Enterprises will be hoping that two warring standards bodies can next week...
[September 6, 2007, 13:30]
Internet Protocol Security for Microsoft Windows Server 2003
White Papers The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system includes an implementation of the Internet Engineering Task Force's Internet Protocol security (IPSec). IPSec, which is also included in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, provides network managers with...
[July 20, 2004, 3:00]
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. This paper introduces the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). SIP features are compliant with IETF RFC 2543, SIP: Session...
[December 27, 2004, 3:06]
Design and Implementation of IP Over Bluetooth for IP Mobility Support in a Heterogeneous Environment
White Papers Mobility support at the IP layer is proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force Mobile IP Working Group to define media-independent procedures, whereby a mobile device can maintain existing transport and application-layer connections despite...
[October 13, 2005, 3:00]
Configuring IPSec Network Security
White Papers This paper describes how to configure IPSec, which is a framework of open standards developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). IPSec provides security for transmission of sensitive information over unprotected networks such as the...
[October 7, 2004, 3:00]
Open Shortest Path First
White Papers Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol developed for Internet Protocol (IP) networks by the interior gateway protocol (IGP) working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The working group was formed in 1988 to design...
[October 8, 2008, 3:27]
Neural-Based Quality of Service Estimation in MPLS Routers
White Papers As MPLS is standardized by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and is expected to be implemented in the near future, this paper addresses the issue of QoS estimation in a MLPS router fed with bursty traffic by means of a neural network.
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
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. That should say IPv4-like, since this patent...
[March 24, 2005, 1:24]
IPsec - A Secure Deployment Option
White Papers It is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, and many operating systems vendors have incorporated IPsec in their product offerings. IP Security (IPsec) protects IP packets and defines the means with which a packet will be encrypted.
[June 23, 2004, 20:00]
Building a Linux IPv6 DNS Server
White Papers IPv6 is the next generation protocol designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to replace IPv4. As a result, IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4 and adds many improvements and features to cater for the future (Mobile) Internet.
[July 17, 2007, 4:07]
Analysis of MPLS-Based IP VPN Security: Comparison to Traditional L2VPNs Such As ATM and Frame Relay, and Deployment Guidelines
White Papers This white paper, written primarily for enterprise users who are considering or have recently migrated to MPLS VPNs, analyzes the security aspects of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC 2547bis MPLS IP VPN architecture, especially in...
[August 25, 2004, 10:33]
Understanding SIP: Today's Hottest Communications Protocol Comes of Age
White Papers An idea born in a computer science laboratory less than a decade ago, SIP is the first protocol to enable multi-user sessions regardless of media content and is now a specification of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
[July 26, 2007, 7:00]
