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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| 2011-Jan-26
| avtcore | , Jonathan Lennox | Audio/Video Transport Core Maintenance |
| 2011-Nov-01
| bfcpbis | Keith Drage, | Binary Floor Control Protocol Bis |
| 2014-Aug-28
| calext | Bron Gondwana, | Calendaring Extensions |
| 2016-Jan-04
| capport | Erik Kline, Martin Thomson | Captive Portal Interaction |
| 2017-Jan-09
| cbor | Francesca Palombini, Jim Schaad | Concise Binary Object Representation Maintenance and Extensions |
| 2011-Jun-28
| cdni | François Le Faucheur, Kevin Ma, Phil Sorber | Content Delivery Networks Interconnection |
| 2015-Nov-20
| cellar | , | Codec Encoding for LossLess Archiving and Realtime transmission |
| 2011-Jan-11
| clue | , | ControLling mUltiple streams for tElepresence |
| 2010-Mar-10
| core | , Jaime Jimenez | Constrained RESTful Environments |
| 2009-Apr-14 | dispatch | Ben Campbell, Patrick McManus | Dispatch |
| 2014-Aug-11
| dmarc | , | Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance |
| 2017-Oct-10
| doh | David Lawrence, Benjamin Schwartz | DNS Over HTTPS |
| 2005-Feb-09 | ecrit | Allison Mankin, Roger Marshall | Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies |
| 2017-Sep-13
| extra | Bron Gondwana, Jiankang Yao | Email mailstore and eXtensions To Revise or Amend |
| 2007-Oct-23 | httpbis | , Tommy Pauly | HTTP |
| 2015-Oct-06
| ice | Ari Keränen, Peter Thatcher | Interactive Connectivity Establishment |
| 2017-Mar-16
| jmap | Jim Fenton, Bron Gondwana | JSON Mail Access Protocol |
| 1993-Jun-24 | mmusic | Flemming Andreasen, Bo Burman | Multiparty Multimedia Session Control |
| 2015-Jul-02
| modern | Steve Donovan, Tom McGarry | Managing, Ordering, Distributing, Exposing, & Registering telephone Numbers |
| 2015-May-18
| netvc | , Mo Zanaty | Internet Video Codec |
| 2015-Jun-26
| perc | Suhas Nandakumar, Nils Ohlmeier | Privacy Enhanced RTP Conferencing |
| 2016-Mar-04
| regext | James Galvin, Antoin Verschuren | Registration Protocols Extensions |
| 2019-Apr-12
| rum | , | Relay User Machine |
| 2016-Jul-01
| sipbrandy | , Gonzalo Salgueiro | SIP Best-practice Recommendations Against Network Dangers to privacY |
| 2009-Apr-14 | sipcore | Jean Mahoney, | Session Initiation Protocol Core |
| 2013-Aug-30
| stir | , | Secure Telephone Identity Revisited |
| 2013-Dec-11
| uta | , Valery Smyslov | Using TLS in Applications |
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| 2013-Oct-11
| 6lo | Shwetha Bhandari, Carles Gomez | IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes |
| 2007-Sep-25 | 6man | , Ole Trøan | IPv6 Maintenance |
| 2013-Oct-08
| 6tisch | Pascal Thubert, Thomas Watteyne | IPv6 over the TSCH mode of IEEE 802.15.4e |
| 1989-Apr-13 | dhc | , Bernie Volz | Dynamic Host Configuration |
| 2012-Jan-10
| dmm | Sri Gundavelli, Dapeng Liu, Satoru Matsushima | Distributed Mobility Management |
| 2013-Oct-25
| dnssd | David Schinazi, Barbara Stark | Extensions for Scalable DNS Service Discovery |
| 2014-Oct-17
| dprive | Brian Haberman, | DNS PRIVate Exchange |
| 2004-Feb-05
| hip | | Host Identity Protocol |
| 2011-Jul-19
| homenet | , Barbara Stark | 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 |
| 2005-Feb-25 | ntp | Karen O'Donoghue, Dieter Sibold | Network Time Protocol |
| 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 |
| 1996-Aug-26
| mboned | Leonard 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 | Joe Clarke, Tianran Zhou | Operations and Management Area Working Group |
| 2004-Oct-14 | opsec | , Jen Linkova | Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure |
| 2004-Jul-14 | radext | Lionel Morand, Stefan Winter | RADIUS EXTensions |
| 2016-Nov-07
| sidrops | Chris Morrow, Keyur Patel | SIDR Operations |
| 2002-Aug-22
| v6ops | , | 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 |
| 2013-Apr-11
| i2rs | , Russ White | Interface to the Routing System |
| 1994-Aug-15
| idr | , John Scudder | 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 | 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 | , Andrew 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 |
| 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 | , Jeff Tantsura | Routing Area Working Group |
| 2013-Dec-20
| sfc | Jim Guichard, | Service Function Chaining |
| 2013-Oct-25
| spring | Bruno Decraene, Rob Shakir | Source Packet Routing in Networking |
| 2014-Dec-05
| teas | Vishnu Beeram, | Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling |
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| 2014-Jun-16
| ace | , Jim Schaad | Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments |
| 2015-Jun-26
| acme | , Rich Salz | Automated Certificate Management Environment |
| 2015-Jun-03
| cose | , Ivaylo Petrov | CBOR Object Signing and Encryption |
| 2015-Dec-18
| curdle | , Rich Salz | CURves, Deprecating and a Little more Encryption |
| 2015-Jun-26
| dots | Valery Smyslov, Liang Xia | DDoS Open Threat Signaling |
| 2006-Jan-20 | emu | , Mohit Sethi | EAP Method Update |
| 2015-Sep-18
| i2nsf | , | Interface to Network Security Functions |
| 2008-Jul-08 | ipsecme | , | IP Security Maintenance and Extensions |
| 2004-Nov-03 | kitten | Robbie Harwood | 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 |
| 2011-Oct-25
| mile | Nancy Cam-Winget, Takeshi Takahashi | Managed Incident Lightweight Exchange |
| 2018-May-29
| mls | Nick Sullivan, | Messaging Layer Security |
| 2009-May-13 | oauth | Rifaat Shekh-Yusef, | Web Authorization Protocol |
| 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 | , , Francesca Palombini | 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 |
| 2015-Mar-24
| tokbind | , | Token Binding |
| 2014-Feb-14
| trans | Melinda Shore, Paul Wouters | Public Notary Transparency |
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| 2008-Nov-12 | alto | , Jan Seedorf | Application-Layer Traffic Optimization |
| 2014-Nov-07
| dtn | , Rick Taylor | Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking |
| 1997-Jan-09 | ippm | , Tommy Pauly, | IP Performance Measurement |
| 2009-Oct-15 | mptcp | , | Multipath TCP |
| 1998-Jul-30 | nfsv4 | David Noveck, Brian Pawlowski | Network File System Version 4 |
| 2016-Oct-04
| quic | , , Lucas Pardue | QUIC |
| 2012-Sep-25
| rmcat | Anna Brunstrom, Colin Perkins | RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques |
| 2014-Sep-23
| taps | , Zaheduzzaman Sarker | Transport Services |
| 2004-Feb-05
| tcpm | , Michael Scharf, Michael Tüxen | TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions |
| 2014-Feb-21
| tram | , | TURN Revised and Modernized |
| 1999-Oct-22 | tsvwg | , , , , , | Transport Area Working Group |
| 1999-Oct-22 | tsvwg | , , , , , | Transport Area Working Group |
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