A brief history of the RFC format
No overstriking allowed! Why do RFCs have such strict text requirements?
Tag: IETF
Running code at IETF
Who decides what it takes to make an Internet Standard?
Whatever it is, you need more
Guest Post: What if IPv6 isn’t big enough?
The results of the first IETF Community Survey
Guest Post: 56,000 mailing list subscribers were surveyed to improve the workings of the IETF. Here are the results.
What’s ‘interop testing’ and why is it so tricky?
What happens when two people correctly read the same RFC yet their implementations of that protocol still differ?
More notes from IETF 111
Geoff Huston discusses currently active IETF areas that are not DNS related.
DNS talk @ IETF 111
Geoff Huston’s snapshot of current working group activities related to the DNS.
Where text protocols came from, and why they’re not going anywhere
Text protocols can be read by humans, but they come with drawbacks. Do we need them?
A survey on securing inter-domain routing: Part 2
What can we take from past experiences at securing BGP to mitigate growing number of attacks on it?
The IETF is not the ‘standards police’
A recent IETF draft warns of Atlanteans bearing eels. Believe it or not, it’s actually making a decent point.