internet society and ietf

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Internet Society and IETF

Dawit Bekele, ManagerDawit Bekele, Manager

African Regional BureauAfrican Regional Bureau

Internet Society (ISOC)Internet Society (ISOC)

For For

AfTLD 2AfTLD 2ndnd ccTLD African event ccTLD African event

April 2008April 2008


What is ISOC?

• Mission

– "To assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.”

• Not-for-profit charitable organization– Global, but with a local perspective

– 84+ ISOC Chapters worldwide

– 26,000+ Individual members, 150 Organisational members


Global Membership

Caribbean0.3%

Pacific4%

Middle East4%

Asia17%

Latin America2%

CEE & Russia5%

South America4%

Western Europe

24%

North America32%

Africa8%


ISOC Chapters

• Mostly volunteer entities supporting ISOC’s Mission & Principles

– Vital to ISOC’s “global” reach– Important component of ISOC’s Strategic Operating Plan

• Serve interests of local community– Organise activities/events/education locally– Provide services in local language– Amplify ISOC efforts locally/regionally

• Provide local perspective back to ISOC


ISOC Chapters


What Makes the Internet Society Unique?

• Sole focus is the Internet– Education, Standards, Policy

• Organisational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

• Enable capacity and technical community building throughout the world

• Key player in Internet policy – Particularly in the Internet Governance Forum


What does ISOC do?

Organisational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Enabling technical capacity building and community development throughout the world

Promoting governmental policies that support Internet growth


ISOC’s Initiatives

• Enabling access– Policy, regulation and access

– Develop access priorities

– Provide pertinent information on access issues

– Encourage adoption of Internet friendly public policies

– Promote ISOC values to policy makers (IGF Ambassadors)

– Technical capacity building– Train 850 network operators within a year

– Identify new needs for technical education

– Conduct and improve ISOC Fellowship to IETF

– Underserved communities– Disabilities access

– Remote areas

– Multilingualism


ISOC’s Initiatives …

• Internetworks Initiative– Common and Open Internet Program

– Identify limiters to the common and open Internet– Protect the end-to-end nature of the Internet

– Global addressing program– Issues in deploying IPv6– Support development and deployment of key

technologies for ensuring a stable and securing Internet


ISOC’s Initiatives …

• Trust and Identity– Baseline studies– Leveraging stakeholder relationships– Tools, case studies and test

implementations


Activities in Africa

• Support for– AfNOG workshops– ccTLD workskhops

– Advanced workshops under planning

– AfriNIC• AfNOG track E0 Localisation

pilot• ISOC Fellowship to IETF• Project funding• Regional Policy meetings

– Bridge between policy and technology

– IGF related meetings (Abuja, Kigali)

– Policy INET


Education Publications & Resources

• IETF Journal– A review of what's happening in the world

of Internet standards with a focus on the activities of IETF Working Groups

– Highlights hot issues being discussed in IETF meetings and IETF mailing lists

– Published 3 times per year

– http://www.isoc.org/ietfjournal

• Workshop Resource Centre– On-line repository of presentations and

materials from Internet conferences worldwide

– Managed by NSRC

– http://ws.edu.isoc.org


A Few of the People We Reach…

ccTLD Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 2005

ISOC Fellows at IETF 67 (L to R): Azael Fernandez Alcantara (Mexico), Alfred Prasad (Fiji), and Laupue Raymond Hughes (Samoa)

Pre-SANOG Workshop Participants, Bhutan Jan. 2005

Students and instructors, ccTLD Workshop in Guyana, Feb. 2007


ISOC and the IETF

• ISOC is the organizational home of the (Internet Engineering Task Force) IETF

20 February 2008 14About the Internet Society


IETF Mission - RFC 3935

The mission of the IETF is to produce high quality, relevant technical and

engineering documents that influence the way people design, use, and

manage the Internet in such a way as to make the Internet work better.

These documents include protocol standards, best current practices, and

informational documents of various kinds.


The IETF - http://www.ietf.org• Internet Engineering Task Force• Formed 1986 – 22nd anniversary Jan. 2008• Produces Internet Standards• Standards process open to all

• “Rough consensus and running code”– No voting since no membersNo voting since no members

– Multiple interoperable implementationsMultiple interoperable implementations

– Internet Standard => wide useInternet Standard => wide use

• Standards Documents open and free of charge• Protocols become standards when widely used, not Protocols become standards when widely used, not

because of government recognition because of government recognition • There are others internet standardisation bodies: ITU, There are others internet standardisation bodies: ITU,

W3C, etc, that have different roles and processesW3C, etc, that have different roles and processes


ScopeScope““Above the wire, below the applicationAbove the wire, below the application””

Telecommunications infrastructure – Physical network made up of underwater cables, telephone lines, fiber optics, satellites, microwaves, wi-fi, and so on facilitates the physical transfer of electronic data.

Internet protocols and standardseg. TCP, IP, Routing, SIP, Mobile IP, Streaming Video & Audio, IP Sec, ppp, FTP, ssh and more…

Content and applications standards (HTML, XML, Java) – Promotes creativity and innovation in applications such as World Wide Web, ebanking, wiki, Skype, and much more


Core Principles of the IETFCore Principles of the IETF

• ParticipationParticipation– Technical competenceTechnical competence

– Individual and not companyIndividual and not company

– Volunteer CoreVolunteer Core

– Open: Anyone can register to a working group and be part of Open: Anyone can register to a working group and be part of the processthe process

– All decisions are made on lineAll decisions are made on line

– Face to face meetings three times a year, but not compulsory Face to face meetings three times a year, but not compulsory for participationfor participation


IETF AreasIETF Areas

http://tools.ietf.org/area/http://tools.ietf.org/area/

• ApplicationsApplications

• GeneralGeneral

• InternetInternet

• Operations and Operations and

ManagementManagement

• Real-Time Real-Time

Applications and Applications and

InfrastructureInfrastructure

• RoutingRouting

• SecuritySecurity

• TransportTransport

http://www.isoc.org20PACINET 2007, 14-24 Aug, Honiara, Solomon Islands


Jon Postel Award 2007


Other Resources

• www.isoc.org • www.ietf.org• http://www.rfc-editor.org• http://ietfjournal.isoc.org• http://ws.edu.isoc.org/• http://www.iana.org


Questions?http://isoc.org/useful/url/

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