The Internet Engineering Task Force is slamming a decision by the International Telecommunication Union to pursue its own standard for troubleshooting and fault detection in service-provider networks.

Internet Engineering Task Force standards for NAC are in their final stages, according to IETF postings. A working group of the IETF has been considering standards for two protocols needed to support ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force has set up a wiki to document which of its standards were successful and why. “Some of [IETF’s] standards have succeeded on a very large and visible scale. Others ...

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It has always amazed me how the basic protocols of the internet are defined using the RFC method. The whole process has certainly become more and more of a double-edged sword over the years. To this ...

The authors of proposed standards on reporting software security holes have withdrawn the document from the Internet’s main standards-setting body, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The ...