IETF Areas
This page provides information about active working groups.
For a list of concluded working groups, see the Concluded Working Groups Page.
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| 2020-Jul-24
| asap | Jean Mahoney, Gonzalo Salgueiro | Automatic SIP trunking And Peering |
| 2020-Oct-14
| asdf | , Niklas Widell | A Semantic Definition Format for Data and Interactions of Things |
| 2011-Jan-26
| avtcore | , Jonathan Lennox | Audio/Video Transport Core Maintenance |
| 2014-Aug-28
| calext | Bron Gondwana, | Calendaring Extensions |
| 2017-Jan-09
| cbor | Christian Amsüss, | Concise Binary Object Representation Maintenance and Extensions |
| 2011-Jun-28
| cdni | Kevin Ma, Sanjay Mishra | Content Delivery Networks Interconnection |
| 2015-Nov-20
| cellar | , | Codec Encoding for LossLess Archiving and Realtime transmission |
| 2010-Mar-10
| core | , Jaime Jimenez, Marco Tiloca | Constrained RESTful Environments |
| 2009-Apr-14 | dispatch | Patrick McManus, Kirsty Paine | Dispatch |
| 2014-Aug-11
| dmarc | Seth Blank, | Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance |
| 2005-Feb-09 | ecrit | Randall Gellens, Allison Mankin, Roger Marshall | Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies |
| 2020-Sep-25
| emailcore | Todd Herr, | Revision of core Email specifications |
| 2017-Sep-13
| extra | Bron Gondwana, Jiankang Yao | Email mailstore and eXtensions To Revise or Amend |
| 2020-Oct-23
| httpapi | Darrel Miller, Rich Salz | Building Blocks for HTTP APIs |
| 2007-Oct-23 | httpbis | , Tommy Pauly | HTTP |
| 2017-Mar-16
| jmap | Jim Fenton, Bron Gondwana | JSON Mail Access Protocol |
| 2020-Oct-23
| jsonpath | Tim Bray, James Gruessing | JSON Path |
| 2021-Aug-26
| mediaman | Harald Alvestrand | Media Type Maintenance |
| 1993-Jun-24 | mmusic | Flemming Andreasen, Bo Burman | Multiparty Multimedia Session Control |
| 2016-Mar-04
| regext | James Galvin, Antoin Verschuren | Registration Protocols Extensions |
| 2011-May-03
| rtcweb | Ted Hardie, | Real-Time Communication in WEB-browsers |
| 2019-Apr-12
| rum | , | Relay User Machine |
| 2012-Jun-12
| scim | Nancy Cam-Winget, Aaron Parecki | System for Cross-domain Identity Management |
| 2021-Jul-02
| sedate | Bron Gondwana, Mark McFadden | Serialising Extended Data About Times and Events |
| 2020-Nov-06
| sframe | Bobo Bose-Kolanu, Martin Thomson | Secure Media Frames |
| 2009-Apr-14 | sipcore | Jean Mahoney, | Session Initiation Protocol Core |
| 2013-Aug-30
| stir | Ben Campbell, , | Secure Telephone Identity Revisited |
| 2013-Dec-11
| uta | , Valery Smyslov | Using TLS in Applications |
| 2020-Mar-06
| webtrans | , David Schinazi | WebTransport |
| 2021-Mar-22
| wish | Nils Ohlmeier, | WebRTC Ingest Signaling over HTTPS |
| 2020-Mar-24
| wpack | David Lawrence, | Web Packaging |
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| 2013-Oct-11
| 6lo | Shwetha Bhandari, Carles Gomez | IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes |
| 2007-Sep-25 | 6man | , Jen Linkova, Ole Trøan | IPv6 Maintenance |
| 2013-Oct-08
| 6tisch | Pascal Thubert, Thomas Watteyne | IPv6 over the TSCH mode of IEEE 802.15.4e |
| 2020-Feb-21
| add | Glenn Deen, David Lawrence | Adaptive DNS Discovery |
| 1989-Apr-13 | dhc | Bernie Volz, Timothy Winters | Dynamic Host Configuration |
| 2012-Jan-10
| dmm | Sri Gundavelli, Dapeng Liu, Satoru Matsushima | Distributed Mobility Management |
| 2013-Oct-25
| dnssd | Chris Box, David Schinazi | Extensions for Scalable DNS Service Discovery |
| 2014-Oct-17
| dprive | Brian Haberman, | DNS PRIVate Exchange |
| 2020-Feb-21
| drip | Mohamed Boucadair, | Drone Remote ID Protocol |
| 2011-Jul-19
| homenet | , Kiran Makhijani | Home Networking |
| 2010-Mar-23
| intarea | Wassim Haddad, Juan-Carlos Zúñiga | Internet Area Working Group |
| 2016-Oct-18
| ipwave | Carlos Bernardos, | IP Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments |
| 2016-Oct-14
| lpwan | Alexander Pelov, Pascal Thubert | IPv6 over Low Power Wide-Area Networks |
| 2011-Mar-27
| lwig | , Mohit Sethi | Light-Weight Implementation Guidance |
| 2021-Sep-10
| madinas | Carlos Bernardos, Juan-Carlos Zúñiga | MAC Address Device Identification for Network and Application Services |
| 2005-Feb-25 | ntp | Karen O'Donoghue, Dieter Sibold | Network Time Protocols |
| 2008-Mar-11 | tictoc | Karen O'Donoghue, | Timing over IP Connection and Transfer of Clock |
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| 2014-Nov-03
| anima | , | Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach |
| 1989-Nov-01 | bmwg | , | Benchmarking Methodology |
| 2006-Feb-15 | dime | , Lionel Morand | Diameter Maintenance and Extensions |
| 1999-Jun-03
| dnsop | Benno Overeinder, , Suzanne Woolf | Domain Name System Operations |
| 2003-May-02
| grow | Chris Morrow, Job Snijders | Global Routing Operations |
| 2021-Mar-22
| iotops | Henk Birkholz, | IOT Operations |
| 1996-Aug-26
| mboned | Lenny Giuliano, Greg Shepherd | MBONE Deployment |
| 2019-Nov-01
| mops | Leslie Daigle, Kyle Rose | Media OPerationS |
| 2003-Apr-30
| netconf | , | Network Configuration |
| 2008-Apr-29 | netmod | , , | Network Modeling |
| 2007-Jun-13 | opsawg | Henk Birkholz, Joe Clarke, Tianran Zhou | Operations and Management Area Working Group |
| 2004-Oct-14 | opsec | , Jen Linkova | Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure |
| 2016-Nov-07
| sidrops | Chris Morrow, Keyur Patel | SIDR Operations |
| 2002-Aug-22
| v6ops | , , XiPeng Xiao | IPv6 Operations |
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| 2016-Jun-17
| babel | , Russ White | Babel routing protocol |
| 2014-Oct-17
| bess | , Stephane Litkowski | BGP Enabled ServiceS |
| 2004-Jun-02 | bfd | , Reshad Rahman | Bidirectional Forwarding Detection |
| 2015-Mar-24
| bier | Tony Przygienda, Greg Shepherd | Bit Indexed Explicit Replication |
| 2001-Jan-31
| ccamp | , Fatai Zhang | Common Control and Measurement Plane |
| 2015-Oct-05
| detnet | , János Farkas | Deterministic Networking |
| 1994-Aug-15
| idr | , , Keyur Patel | Inter-Domain Routing |
| 2009-Apr-28 | lisp | , | Locator/ID Separation Protocol |
| 2018-Feb-23
| lsr | Christian Hopps, | Link State Routing |
| 2018-Feb-23
| lsvr | Victor Kuarsingh, Gunter Van de Velde | Link State Vector Routing |
| 1997-Jun-12 | manet | Don Fedyk, Ronald in 't Velt | Mobile Ad-hoc Networks |
| 1997-Mar-03
| mpls | , Nicolai Leymann, Tarek Saad | Multiprotocol Label Switching |
| 2012-May-01
| nvo3 | Sam Aldrin, | Network Virtualization Overlays |
| 2014-Oct-31
| pals | , Andy Malis | Pseudowire And LDP-enabled Services |
| 2005-Jan-12 | pce | Dhruv Dhody, | Path Computation Element |
| 1998-Jul-28
| pim | , Stig Venaas | Protocols for IP Multicast |
| 2020-Feb-07
| raw | Eve Schooler, Rick Taylor | Reliable and Available Wireless |
| 2018-Feb-09
| rift | Jeff Tantsura, Zhaohui Zhang | Routing In Fat Trees |
| 2008-Feb-15 | roll | Dominique Barthel, Ines Robles | Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks |
| 2004-Feb-19
| rtgwg | Yingzhen Qu, Jeff Tantsura | Routing Area Working Group |
| 2013-Dec-20
| sfc | Jim Guichard, | Service Function Chaining |
| 2013-Oct-25
| spring | Bruno Decraene, Jim Guichard, | Source Packet Routing in Networking |
| 2014-Dec-05
| teas | Vishnu Beeram, | Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling |
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| 2014-Jun-16
| ace | , Loganaden Velvindron | Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments |
| 2015-Jun-26
| acme | Deb Cooley, Deb Cooley, | Automated Certificate Management Environment |
| 2015-Jun-03
| cose | Mike Jones, , Ivaylo Petrov | CBOR Object Signing and Encryption |
| 2021-Sep-24
| dance | Wes Hardaker, Joey Salazar | DANE Authentication for Network Clients Everywhere |
| 2015-Jun-26
| dots | Valery Smyslov, Liang Xia | DDoS Open Threat Signaling |
| 2006-Jan-20 | emu | , Mohit Sethi | EAP Method Update |
| 2020-Jul-10
| gnap | , | Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol |
| 2015-Sep-18
| i2nsf | , | Interface to Network Security Functions |
| 2008-Jul-08 | ipsecme | , | IP Security Maintenance and Extensions |
| 2004-Nov-03 | kitten | | Common Authentication Technology Next Generation |
| 2019-Oct-19
| lake | , Mališa Vučinić | Lightweight Authenticated Key Exchange |
| 2016-Jul-01
| lamps | Tim Hollebeek, | Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX and SMIME |
| 2018-May-29
| mls | Nick Sullivan, | Messaging Layer Security |
| 2009-May-13 | oauth | Rifaat Shekh-Yusef, | Web Authorization Protocol |
| 2021-Oct-07
| ohai | , Shivan Sahib | Oblivious HTTP Application Intermediation |
| 2015-Jun-26
| openpgp | , | Open Specification for Pretty Good Privacy |
| 2022-Mar-07
| ppm | Benjamin Schwartz, Samuel Weiler | Privacy Preserving Measurement |
| 2020-Jul-10
| privacypass | , Benjamin Schwartz | Privacy Pass |
| 2019-Mar-07
| rats | Nancy Cam-Winget, , Ned Smith | Remote ATtestation ProcedureS |
| 2013-Jul-12
| sacm | Christopher Inacio, Karen O'Donoghue | Security Automation and Continuous Monitoring |
| 2018-Mar-09
| secdispatch | , , Mohit Sethi | Security Dispatch |
| 2016-Oct-28
| secevent | Dick Hardt, | Security Events |
| 2017-Dec-15
| suit | , , David Waltermire | Software Updates for Internet of Things |
| 2018-Mar-09
| teep | Nancy Cam-Winget, Tirumaleswar Reddy.K | Trusted Execution Environment Provisioning |
| 1996-May-24
| tls | , , Christopher Wood | Transport Layer Security |
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| 2008-Nov-12 | alto | Mohamed Boucadair, Qin Wu | Application-Layer Traffic Optimization |
| 2014-Nov-07
| dtn | Edward Birrane, Rick Taylor | Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking |
| 1997-Jan-09 | ippm | Marcus Ihlar, Tommy Pauly | IP Performance Measurement |
| 2020-Jun-14
| masque | Eric Kinnear, Christopher Wood | Multiplexed Application Substrate over QUIC Encryption |
| 1998-Jul-30 | nfsv4 | David Noveck, Brian Pawlowski | Network File System Version 4 |
| 2016-Oct-04
| quic | Matt Joras, Lucas Pardue | QUIC |
| 2012-Sep-25
| rmcat | Anna Brunstrom, Colin Perkins | RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques |
| 2014-Sep-23
| taps | Reese Enghardt, | Transport Services |
| 2004-Feb-05
| tcpm | , Ian Swett, Michael Tüxen | TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions |
| 1999-Oct-22 | tsvwg | , , , , , | Transport Area Working Group |
| 1999-Oct-22 | tsvwg | , , , , , | Transport Area Working Group |
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