Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is charged with developing and promoting Internet standards.

The current chairman of the IETF is Harald Tveit Alvestrand.

List of IEFT chairs:

Harald Tveit Alvestrand (2001-present)

[Fred Baker]? (1996-2001)

[Paul Mockapetris]? (1994-1995)

[Phill Gross]? (1986-1993)

See also: standardization, Internet Standard, RFC, and IAB?.

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External Links:

• The official IEFT site
  • http://www.ietf.org/
• Details on how IEFT is organized
  • http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3160.txt