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
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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
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Global Membership
Caribbean0.3%
Pacific4%
Middle East4%
Asia17%
Latin America2%
CEE & Russia5%
South America4%
Western Europe
24%
North America32%
Africa8%
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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
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ISOC Chapters
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ISOC’s Initiatives …
• Trust and Identity– Baseline studies– Leveraging stakeholder relationships– Tools, case studies and test
implementations
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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
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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
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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
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ISOC and the IETF
• ISOC is the organizational home of the (Internet Engineering Task Force) IETF
20 February 2008 14About the Internet Society
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jon Postel Award 2007
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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