A survey of participants’ opinions about issues, trends at the 92nd meeting of the IETF in Dallas, Texas, US
Theis an open, global, volunteer organization that develops, evolves and promotes Internet standards and the Internet’s smooth operation.听More than 1,200 people from 57 countries participated in the IETF meeting in Dallas in 2015.
A team from 乱伦视频’s Imagining the Internet Center conducted interviews at IETF’s 92nd meeting to gather opinions about Internet trends and evolution, identify issues and provide a record of what people thought at the time about the likely future.听This page holds links leading to video survey pages including hundreds of video clips from interviews with 83 IETF attendees asked four questions:听
1 – THE STATE OF THE INTERNET TODAY:听
2 – WHAT NEW INTERNET DEVELOPMENTS ARE JUST EMERGING?听
3 – WHAT IS THE GREATEST INTERNET CONCERN?听
4 – ACTION?听
5 –听INTERNET IN A NUTSHELL:听
BACKGROUND on IETF
The IETF mission includes:听identifying and proposing solutions to the pressing operational and technical problems in the Internet; specifying the development or usage of protocols and the near-term architecture to solve technical problems; facilitating technology transfer from the Internet Research Task Force to the wider Internet community; and providing a forum for the exhange of relevant information within the Internet community between vendors, researchers, agency contractors and network engineers.
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Technical activities in the IETF are addressed within working groups. All working groups are organized roughly by function into seven areas. Each area is led by one or more Area Directors who have primary responsibility for that one area of IETF activity. Together with the chair of the IETF/IESG, these Area Directors comprise the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).
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The working groups conduct their business during the tri-annual IETF meetings (such as IETF 92 in Dallas in March 2015), at interim working group meetings, and via electronic mail on mailing lists established for each group. The tri-annual IETF meetings are 4.5 days in duration, and consist of working group sessions, training sessions and plenary sessions. The plenary sessions include technical presentations, status reports and an open IESG meeting.
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The Imagining the Internet Interview Team
IETF 92 – Dallas interviews were conducted for Imagining the Internet by undergraduate researchers Rajat Agarwal, Michelle Alfini, Gary Grumbach, Ashley McGetrick, Rhett Lawson and Paige Pauroso of 乱伦视频’s School of Communications, under the supervision of 乱伦视频 faculty/staff Colin Donohue, Aaron Moger and Janna Anderson.
