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ISOC Press Release
From: ISOC Secretariat <isoc () isoc org>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 93 09:14:18 -0400
INTERNET SOCIETY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Internet Society 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 22091 +1.703.648.9888 +1.703.620.0913 fax Internet: isoc () isoc org July 2, 1993 Global Internetworking Standards Body Meets at Amsterdam The world's predominant standards body for open computer internetworking standards - known as the Internet Engineering Task Force or just IETF- meets 12-16 July 1993 in Amsterdam. The IETF brings together engineers and computer experts from around the globe to develop the techniques and standards that allow different kinds of computers, networks, and programmes to communicate with each other and form vast open internetworks. Today, more than 43,000 of these internetworks are used by countless enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies in every major country of the world for daily information sharing and collaboration of staff. It has grown very rapidly to constitute a multibillion dollar market. In addition, nearly 13,000 are connected together to form the vast information mesh called "The Internet." Because of the increasing global scale of this activity, the IETF is meeting for the first time in Europe. The Internet, a loosely-organized international collaboration of autonomous, interconnected networks, supports host-to-host communication through voluntary adherence to open protocols and procedures defined by Internet Standards, a subset of which is commonly known as "the TCP/IP protocol suite." The Internet Standards Process is defined in standards that are published as part of the well known Request for Comments (RFC) publication series. The primary responsibility for the development and review of potential Internet Standards from all sources is carried out by the Internet Society through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and overseen by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). Managed by an Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the IETF is a large open community of network designers, hardware manufacturers, software manufacturers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the Internet and the Internet protocol suite. The Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) in Reston, VA runs the IETF Secretariat which organizes IETF activities. Support for the IETF Secretariat is provided by agencies of the US Government which participate in the development and evolution of the Internet system. The recognition of the importance of the TCP/IP protocol suite (which includes standards such as SNMP) as an open standard, and the IETF as an important standardization body is increasing fast, especially in the commercial environment. The IETF does most of its work in Working Groups via Electronic Mail and in three plenary meetings per year. At the three IETF meetings in 1992, the average attendance was about 600 participants (with over 50% coming from commercial companies in computer hardware and software, communications equipment and services, information service provision, and other related industries). All of the 26 IETF meetings so far have been held in North America. The Internet is a fast growing network, expanding from what used to be a researchers network into a network that serves all kinds of organizations (e.g. 50% of the registered and 30% of the connected networks are from commercial companies). Currently there are well over 1.700.000 hosts connected to the Internet, in more than 50 countries. Internet Electronic mail connectivity stretches even to 127 countries around the world. The Internet community has worked hard to achieve that same internationalization for the Internet Standards work. That effort has proven to be a success, leading to the first IETF meeting outside of North America, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
From 12 to 16 July 1993, the 27th IETF will be held in the RAI
conference center in Amsterdam. One of the charter members of the Internet Society, RARE (The European Research Networks Association) has agreed to work with the IETF Secretariat to organize this first meeting in Europe. RARE has delegated the local organization to SURFnet (The Dutch academic and research network). At the Amsterdam IETF about 600 network experts are expected to participate in the 60 Working Groups that will meet there to discuss a variety of topics, that include: - The next generation IP protocol; - Support for IP over ATM; - Audio Video multicasting; - X.500 usage for X.400 routing; - Deployment of SNMPv2; - Integrated Information Retrieval; and many others. Several of the Working Group meetings will be recorded with video cameras and microphones and will be multicast in real time over the Internet from the RAI conference center. The IETF Secretariat is responsible for the logistics of every IETF meeting. SURFnet as a local organizer is responsible for the Audio Video Multicast and a well-equipped demo and terminal room. Unique for this event is the Amsterdam IETF information server that SURFnet has put up on the Internet. This information server is accessible from all over the Internet. It not only contains all the information on the Amsterdam IETF, but it also contains up-to-date tourist information on Amsterdam and The Netherlands, provided by the Amsterdam Tourist Information (VVV) and The Netherlands Board of Tourism (NBT). The organization of the Amsterdam IETF has taken place in a relatively small timeframe thanks to a close cooperation between CNRI in the USA and RARE and SURFnet in the Netherlands. The Internet itself proved once again to be an invaluable tool for the communication between these parties. The terminal room has been equipped thanks to contributions from various organizations: SURFnet bv Sun Microsystems (The Netherlands) Digital Equipment Corporation (The Netherlands) Cisco Systems Europe Computer Science, Twente University DNPAP, Fac. of Electrical Engineering, Delft Univ. of Technology ftp Software, Inc. Foundation SURF Geveke Electronics BV RIPE NCC SARA (Academic Computer Center Amsterdam) Source Information Technology BV Tadpole Technology Plc. For more information please contact: About Internet Society and IETF: - Internet Society Secretariat 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 22091 USA +1 703 648-9888 +1 703 620-0913 fax isoc () isoc org - Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Chairman: Phill Gross Executive Director: Steve Coya c/o CNRI 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 22091 USA +1 703 620-8990 +1 703 620-0913 ietf.secretariat () isoc org About IETF Registration: - IETF Secretariat c/o CNRI 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 22091 USA Attention: IETF Registration +1 703 620-8990 +1 703 620-0913 rsvp () cnri reston va us Amsterdam Local Arrangements (and Dutch press contact): - SURFnet bv Erik Huizer SURFnet bv P.O. Box 19035 3501 DA Utrecht The Netherlands Tel: +31 30 514332 Fax: +31 30 340903 Erik.Huizer () SURFnet nl C=nl; A=400net; P=surf; O=SURFnet; S=Huizer; G=Erik Note: The IETF is a working meeting, not a conference. There will be no special press facilities. Only registered participants are allowed to attend [although limited attendance by the press can be provided].
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