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This tutorial provided introductions to a number of aspects of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

NEWCOMERS webinar pre IETF104
2019/03/14 0100 CET

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/104/proceedings/

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I'm going to start okay, I'm, hello, everyone welcome to the newcomers webinar session I'm Anton Malhotra I'm, a graduate student at Boston University, and my research focus is on the security of network protocols. More specifically, I look at the vulnerabilities in protocols like NTP, DNS, BGP TLS and then use tools from cryptography and game theory to improve the security and reliability of these protocols.

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I'm actively involved in several working groups, more specifically the network, time protocol working group and then DNS working group and CFR G, and we'll talk about these groups later in my talk. Well, this is my eighth IETF now and I'm really excited to have you all here and let's get you all started.

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Okay, first of all, I would like to thank Scott, Brandner and Mike Jones for preparing the earlier versions of this slide. Deck of this presentation they've jumped on a great job, and we would like to thank them. Also.

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I would like to mention that there are other members of Idi you and me to code team or present in this webinar I'll be presenting the slides but feel free to ask questions and raise hands whenever you have any question or you can also type your question in the chat window and we will be posting the relevant URLs. That I will mention on in the during the talk in the chat window, but feel free to ask any questions and interrupt me whenever you feel like okay. So there will be three sections to this presentation.

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The first section is introduction to newcomers activities at the IETF meeting that you at the end of March, then introduction to the ietf structure and it's related organizations. Then we'll talk about the IETF week in a nutshell, and then we'll provide some additional resources and the key people that you can contact for additional information again. I'm going to say, feel free to ask questions after each section, okay, so all right, the first line. This is a very, very important note- well slide this on the following slide.

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This applies to all the IETF participation, whether you're participating in person or remotely this slide tells you certain policies that you will agree to follow. You don't have to read all of this right now. It's a lot but you'll see this text, but keep in mind that you'll see this text a lot during the IETF week, especially at the beginning of all the working group sessions, and it's really not right now, but it's important for you to read this before you participate the link at the top of this slide.

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You can click on the link at the top of the slide, to get more details about neutral.

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Okay, this slide is still up. It's still a part of the neutral. It lists a number of rfcs RFC documents that all IETF participants, whether participating remotely or in person, agree to follow. Please make sure that you are familiar with all these documents before participating.

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Any questions so far.

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Great okay, so.

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At ITF, we really make a good amount of effort to provide you with all the resources and information to get your get. You started and integrate well during the ITF week. So for that, towards that we organized ITF organizes a number of events, organizing organized specifically for the newcomers.

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So we'll begin with the newcomers tutorial, which will be on Sunday March 24th between 12:30 and 1:30. Please try to attend this, as it will make easier for you during the rest of the week. All information can be found on the link that is provided at the top of the slide, but basically you'll have an IETF, quick, quick connections session from 3 to 4 on Sunday. It is basically a very good way of having a short one to one conversation with experienced.

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Ietf errors were mainly, some of them would be working group session shares and you can have a one one-on-one personal conversation with them.

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This session is has very limited seats, so it's important to register for it then, immediately following this session, we'll have a newcomers meet and greet session from 4:00 to 5:00 on Sunday again, and this session is mainly focused on introducing you to the newcomers to the IETF leaders, mainly the working group chairs area directors.

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Don't worry about who I'm talking about. We will know who working group, chairs and area directors are later in the presentation.

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Also I would highly recommend getting a mentor for you if you have not registered for one. Yet it's highly recommended that you get a mentor for you, it'll make things much more easier for you. They can connect you with relevant people or with or whatever whatever you need during your IETF week. They can make things really easy, so it's highly recommended to have a mentor for yourself. Then there is a newcomers dinner, that's on Monday evening and it's organized by the Secretariat.

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So it's again an opportunity to mingle with other newcomers and other IETF version at the end of the meeting on Thursday, we'll have a newcomers feedback session.

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It's really important for us to have your feedback so that we can improve on the areas that you feel we were lacking or you can. You can suggest other ways we can that we can integrate into our newcomer session. So it's really important to get your feedback to continually improve this newcomer session. So we I highly recommend that you should attend it and give your feedback.

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Okay, so let's talk about the scope of this meeting this sorry, this presentation, so the primary purpose of this presentation is to give you the information, all the information and resources that you would need to begin, your active participation during the ITA in the IETF, and we really hope that this information and resources will help you survive the week.

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Apart from this presentation, there is a lot to learn about about IETF and it's not really possible to squeeze it all into this short are.

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There is a lot of other things that you can learn about idea, for instance, the history of IETF, how to write a standards document and much more and I would say that it is not really essential to know all of this at your very first meeting, you can learn as you go, but whatever you need to the basic necessities for survival during the ITF, we will talk about it during this presentation and I would again like to ask if there is any questions at this point.

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Also there is this YouTube channel link that you can go to for further information.

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Great so now I'm going to talk about ITF and its related organizations. I will give you a quick overview of the structure of the IETF and the main groups and organizations that are a part of this IETF ecosystem.

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Great so, first and foremost, what is the mission of ITF and I'm supposed to read it loud? So the mission of the IETF is to make the internet work better by producing high-quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use and manage the Internet. So basically this means the purpose of the IETF is defined as follows.

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First, to develop and maintain the standards for technologies that are used to provide Internet services or to provide services over the Internet, then functionality. The mission of IETF is to ensure that the technology can that we provide can perform needed functions, scalability to ensure that the technology will support the proper scale of deployment and usage.

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Another important point is security. We want to ensure that the technology itself is secure and can be securely operated and can be operated securely and then easy deployment. We want to make sure that the technology can be easily and effectively in short standards and technologies. Developed at the IETF is secure, scalable and can be deployed effectively.

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So let's talk about what, how is IETF we understand. Itf is a standards, development organization and it's a little different than other standards. Development organizations that you might have encountered at the IETF people participate as individuals. There is no formal membership, it's a voluntarily voluntary participation, whereas other standard development organizations typically have membership of some form. It's really individual based, whereas ITF is individual participation.

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Secondly, at the IETF we do not have any formal voting system. We have a very informal consensus based voting, which we call hum and we get back to that later in this tutorial, whereas other stos others are other development, organized sort. Other development standard development organizations typically have some form of formal voting. So our IDF is very different in that aspect.

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Then there is no formal or special role of government or any companies for that matter. In ITF, everyone is participating as an individual, whereas other st o--'s are sometimes treaty based at the ITF. A standard is a standard when people use them it's more market or adoption driven at IDF. We do not mandate people to follow a certain standard.

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It is. It is purely market driven as where, as at other SDOs, you would see some store some sort of mandatory standardization.

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The ITF focuses this organization. Swiss ITF specifically focuses on Internet technologies. There are other rescues that cover a wide range of technical and physical standards and, as I mentioned earlier, the idea of structured and decision making is bottom-up, which is fairly unique compared with other standards, development organizations.

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Okay, so this is an important slide, so the entire work of an IETF ITF is a huge ecosystem. The entire work of the ITF is organized into areas of related work and each area has certain working groups under under it. Each area is managed by two or three area directors, except for the gen area, which is owned by the IETF chair on the slide you are seeing there. There are seven areas listed. This is not a fixed number. The number and focus of areas can change over time.

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Sometimes two or more areas may merge or a new one might get created based on the based on the needs.

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So yeah, so this is all you can. The names of these areas are fairly self descriptive and if you are really interested into technology, I would say you have. You have deeper look at all these areas and the working groups that fall under it because working group and then you can start participating in those working groups.

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Okay, so let's talk about the ietf and it's consensus mechanism, as I said that there is no formal voting mechanism at at the IETF consensus is the key. This is really important to understand it's one of the major features of IETF, as stated in its original mantra, which says that we reject Kings presidents and voting, we believe in rough consensus and running code. So basically the idea is to reject maturity. Ruling at ITF rough consensus is really an interesting concept. It doesn't necessarily mean everyone agrees in the end. It also does not.

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It is also not necessarily a compromise, so rough consensus is reached when all concerns and issues are heard and addressed. They are not necessarily all have to be accommodated as long as everyone can live with the outcome at the working group sessions. There's always a session chair who is responsible.

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And some you seem to be muted. Can you please reenable your microphone?

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Can you hear me now, yes,.

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Okay, so I was saying that the session sorry for the interruption, the session chair at the working group is responsible to lead the discussion on a particular topic and make sure that all the dissenting opinions are heard. But these opinions should not be the controlling voice. So what we do is we measure consensus by humming. Humming is just a hum like hmm it's it's a good way to you know, feel the temperature of the room, and it is more importantly, it is anonymous.

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So no, when some people are not comfortable, raising their hands or coming out expressing their opinion, where humming is kind of an anonymous way of getting them to would this mean nobody has to raise their hand in order to make their choice? No. It's also important to know that a consensus call is usually carried over to the mailing list and it is basically repeated on the mailing list, and this is important, because not everybody can attend variety of meetings in person, but they should also be heard.

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So the final decisions are all usually taken over to the mailing list so that everyone can participate remotely as well. I would suggest reading RFC 7 8, it's a great read. um You should all go back and read more about the IETF and its consensus mechanism on on that on that RFC.

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Okay, so let's talk a little bit about culture at IETF.

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Well, as I mentioned in the earlier slides idea of culture is fairly unique in various aspects: people here as it's a voluntary individual participation, organ a patter based organization, people tend to be very passionate, smart and vocal about about everything. This can be a little overwhelming sometimes, but they are usually really trying to get to the best possible solution. So do not get intimidated.

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When you see people talking loud or passionately about something. Another important thing to notice is that technical excellence and topical knowledge is highly valued, so make sure you have before participating or before saying anything on the mic, make sure that you have at the relevant documents really well at ITF. If we talk about the dress code, it's very informal. Most people prefer to wear t-shirts and jeans, but if you want to wear formal, it's entirely up to you go for whatever you are comfortable with.

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Also I would like to mention that this is a really really old conference and many people known each other for many years, which makes for a very a great familiar atmosphere, but it can also sometimes mean that there is a bit of an incline wage, sometimes so the bottom line is that don't feel intimidated. It's a very open culture. Very welcoming culture always introduce yourself to others and try to have a try to have a good time.

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Wow this is the this is, and a really complicated slide. But let's talk about it, there are several other bodies, apart from the ones that we talked about the ietf areas and working groups. There are several other bodies that interact with di TF and.

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This in this presentation will only focus on the aspects of these organizations and activities that are immediately relevant to ietf newcomers. You do not have to learn about all of these. All of these.

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Organizations or I'll talk about a few which are relevant to your participation as a newcomer.

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So let's move to the next.

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So this slide provides an overview of some of these organizations. I a B. That's the internet architecture board it as it suggests it provides oversight of the internet architecture and the standards processes. Then we have iesg.

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The Internet Engineering steering group it is responsible for the technical management of IETF activities, including the final approval of specifications as Internet's of internet standards. It consists of area directors who are selected by non comm, that is the nomination committee and are appointed for a period of two years. I think then we have IRT F, which is the internet research task force.

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It focuses on this parallel organization to IETF focuses on the research issues that are related to the Internet, while IETF focuses on short term issues of engineering and standards, making there's a number of focused and long-term research groups. There is CFR G that discusses and analyzes general cryptographic aspects of security protocols, and it offers guidance on the use of emerging mechanisms and new use the uses of existing mechanisms. Then we have h RPC, that is, human rights, protocol, troop and research group.

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Where standards and protocols aware we discussed whether standards and protocols can enable strength or not threaten human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Then there are several others: I RTF researchers as well, there's mapper, G ice, IC, c RG I would highly recommend. If you are interested in that sort of thing, then you should learn more about these groups and you can actively participate in them in them, then we have ia OC, it's currently being revised and it is responsible for the fiscal and administrative support for the IETF standards process.

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I would just like to say that do not get too much overwhelmed with all these acronyms, which is, but if you are, if you want to participate in technology, just look at the areas and the working groups that we talked about and with more involvement and more participation in ITF, you will learn all these organizations and their role with ITF along the way, so don't get overwhelmed by all these acronyms that you'll come across this week.

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Quite a bit and with this I would like rich I would pass the baton to rich and he's going to present the rest of the presentation. Let me know if you have. If anyone has any questions, you can raise your hand or type your question in the chat window.

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Hi I'm Tony you're gonna be able to just click Next on the slides for me or take over as presenter I.

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Actually, whenever you see next, okay.

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Great all right so brief introduction, my name is rich Saul's I've been involved with the IETF for way too long, the mailing list, and then for about the past five six years, I've been coming to the meetings. I, don't know how that makes, but it doesn't matter because they have people who show up with t-shirts. That say, are you know IETF number one. So everybody is a newcomer to somebody else. Next, please.

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Alright, so I'm going to be talking mostly about what the meeting is like coming up in week and a half there are a number of organized sessions. These are working groups and we'll talk about some of these on the subsequent slides.

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We currently have about 130 working groups sometime before some couple months before the meeting surveys go out to all of the working group chairman say: do you want to meet? They will pull the working group or it'll be obvious. If the answer is yes or no sometimes and say yes, I need to meet for an hour or any tweak for two hours and I particular don't want to conflict with these other working groups.

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So, for example, you might imagine the tls group where I'm involved doesn't want to meet in conflict with say, HTTP or using the TLS using TLS and applications groups, because there's a lot of overlap. So the scheduling it's done by some magic at the staff at the ITF staff about two three weeks before the meeting first draft final drafts are then published schedules and agendas can change up until and during the course of the meeting week.

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So you want to keep track of that, and next couple slides and tools on that we have a total I said about 130 working groups, I think about half of them are meeting right now, birds of a feather sessions talk about there's about six, the internet research task force, which is separate from the engineering course, although very very closely affiliated.

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There are area-wide sessions where somebody, for example, all the security area will get together and there might be brief update from all the groups that have met and perhaps a guest speaker or topic, that's of general concern in the security area. There is a what's called a plenary meeting. Plenary means everybody comes literally, so there's a meeting usually held in the evening where alphabet soup that Chantal they're on tell walked through before they'll be presentation time a chance to meet some of the people.

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If it's the March meeting like this to introduce some of the incoming new members and so on, it's usually a couple hours long.

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Recent actions are hackathons and Coates prints. Those meet Saturday and Sunday tutorials and lunch sessions also meet Sunday and during the week and then there's often a social event. This meeting there is not, but that's okay, cuz proble city to be in and has plenty of bars and restaurants and activities going on next slide. Please.

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Alright, let this happen during the week. This hall wait what's called hallway meetings and you can see the picture here. This is either one of the hotel lobbies bars or it's an area that they, you know a breakfast area that they set up and it's taken over by people meeting and talking. There's lots of people laptops, collaborating a desk, standing and milling about talking and so on. What's called the barbed off that is a meeting at a bar, usually often at the hotel. Sometimes they will are familiar with.

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The city will set something up for a bar, a couple of blocks, away, big editing sessions where a worker will need and a couple people who are particularly interested in a problem or problem area of the within a draft will get together and just sit, face-to-face and bash out and edit. You know, live editing of a document to discuss later in the week or on the mailing list. There's an IETF app.

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uh You know iOS and iOS and Android it's pretty good. It has the schedule every time you up it downloads the latest agenda for changes. It has Maps floor maps. You can highlight sessions that you want to go to and so on. It's getting improves every time the agenda is listed at that link at the bottom.

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There also, when Tobiah is put it in the chat room and, as I said, they will post that on some boards, near the registration area on the wall or bulletin board, and then paste on updates or announce them in the IETF 104 attendees my best and as I said things do change during the course of the week. Next.

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So working groups, as many of you probably already, are aware. The term work groups is a collection of people. It is a formal charter that says this is what we do well. This is what we're trying to do. There was a timetable for when they will do it.

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The best thing you can say about the timetable is, it is aspirational. We thought me the certificate enrollment protocol, of which I am the co-chair. We thought acne would be done in six nine months. It's a couple of years. Things are longer, they didn't expect. Even you when you allow for them taking longer than you expect. Most of the items. Work happens in working groups. Most of the work is done on email lists, which and traffic between the meetings, there's usually a flurry of email leading just to the meeting.

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What's called the cutoff, the last chance you can submit documents before the meeting. The face-to-face meetings are generally focused on giving update and solving key issues is familiar with email and chat and all of those kinds of things or github issues and pull requests. You still can't beat the high speed bandwidth of talking face-to-face with somebody who you were who you're disagreed with.

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All of the sessions are streamed over the internet using medical, the medical staff is awesome. They are also recorded and made available on the IETF Channel.

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Mideco also allows for remote participation, so that somebody- and you can see in this picture here, somebody on the screen- the first screen on the right- is a slide, and the screen on the left is looks like it's somebody, the presenting or asking about the slide in the far right. You see a couple. People standing there online at the microphone to talk and ask questions as I mentioned, there's a charter and it's negotiated with the area director to set up and there's a thing called reach ordering where the group says.

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Oh, we also need to do this thing or we're done with that thing and we should down, and that will happen with the area director. The area director is one two or three people who sit on top of a whole bunch of working groups. Next, please.

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Birds of a there is a much more informal meeting. It comes from the phrase English or American birds of a feather flock together, the idea being that, like people with a like-minded triste will get together and talk.

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Often a working group will have a bath first. Sometimes not sometimes a working group will be obvious, the need for it will be obvious, and so they'll just tour. The group sometimes there'll be one or two baths or one or two sessions of a given topic and the other side note we're not ready to have a working yet or we're not ever good bored. This would usually include discussion of the Charter. It could be a one-shot meaning. It could be proposed by a group. It's approved by the relevant area.

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Director generally meet only one thing: most of them will want. Sometimes they need twice, but it's much more. It's much more loose structured next.

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So general meeting etiquette about how to be effective and to get along with folks if you're interested in a particular area and I'm, assuming that everyone here is, has interests in one or more particular areas read the documents of interest, so all of the documents are posted there publicly available.

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The main website is theta tracker, dot, a 80s org, and you can find the list of working groups each working group page and can find here's the documents we're looking on here's the one we published as RFC. Here's pointers to the mailing lists. How-To drawing here is archives mailing list. If you want to look back but and also in the data tracker under the news area, you'll find here's. You know the agenda for each working group. Each working group has its own agenda.

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It helps to read the documents because, most of the time, when people present about a document unless they're presenting about a new one that they'd like to consider they'll just tell let us discuss the diffs from the previous version. So, unless you've read it, it's hard to understand what the differs, if you don't have the base document try to talk to people. People are friendly, recognize that everybody's here trying to do this thing it used to be, you know, intimidating you go I.

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Just years ago, I just had a nice discussion with the guy who invented file transfer. You.

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People are very approachable. Often if you you can take a note during the meeting and then approach someone afterward to go hey, you know, I had a question about what did you mean when you said this, or so on as a caveat to that, as on Tomlinson contrl mentioned?

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Many of these people are a longtime colleague friends, so they might talk more brusque ly to each other than they will to newcomers, don't be put off by now. Okay, no more so than any other computer person, but you know feel you know if you're having problems we'll discuss options later on enjoy yourself. It is a lot of fun. It is, it can be exhausting, particularly as you get more involved with different working groups or more working groups being technically on from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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at night is exhausting, remember to sleep, certainly by the end of the week. That becomes more of a thing, but often you know for people here is we, especially after you've, been coming a couple times. I might meet some people in running at breakfast. The meeting starts at 9:30 runs until 5:00 grab a bite of dinner with colleagues or friends that I've just met, or maybe a working dinner and then come back to the hotel.

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You know if you haven't already dropped your bags off and then go out for a beer or two the hotel lobby bar or something like that. It's a long day, it's fun, remember to sleep and be respected and tolerant towards other folks. That goes without saying, unfortunately, sometimes we have to say it these days. Please.

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Okay, how to talk at a working group session, so that is my acne co-chair you up near talking and it looks like it might have to be a comedian.

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There'll be one or more mics, depending on the size of the room in each room. If you want to say something you stand up on the mic and you get in line.

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The chairs are responsible for tracking the agenda and how long a discussion is going on so and they will say like okay I'm, going to cut the line after rich. That means he's the last person on this topic. Everyone else sit down or don't come up to the line anymore. When you get to the front of the mic, it can be intimidating.

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You're talking to X here in front experts speak directly into the mic. You say your name and affiliation. Every time you speak people who have been coming for a long time. You know the time they tend to rush it really quickly.

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You'll hear people like echo Mozilla, and unless you recognize him, you'll have no way of met Eric for Scola who works for the Mozilla Foundation. You know Rick Saul's Akamai, it tends to all blur together, was that Akamai company or was that his last name.

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Part of that is so that the people who were attending remotely, who don't see you can can get an idea who's talking. There are blue sheets which provide a record of who's in the room. That's for patent concerns and helps plan the future meetings. If working group got 12 people in it, the next meeting, if they request room for 75 people, that's gonna be well. Why are you gonna get six times as many as you did before?

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Listen to what people are saying personally, I find a really good way to help focus your listening, and it gets tired listening hour after hour after hour, even when you're talking sometimes um is to offer to be the jabber scribe for remote participation. The jabber scribe watches the chatroom to see if someone remote has a question. If so, they get to cut to the front of the line, they also host page numbers and slide decks, and who is talking so that the people remote will have an opportunity next slide. Please.

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The IRT F this is part of same organization that runs the IETF, but they look at more research topics. They often they meet concurrently, sometimes the day before they'll have meetings by art. If movies are open to all attendees there's a rumor, there are 74 18. One of the things that will hurt hit you through the week is people just have these numbers memorized, you know. Well, you know that's not really compliant with our C 28:18 dis, jokes about that, but eventually catch on to the numbers.

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The IRT F also gives out a research prize and a grant to author to come and present their research at an IRT F plenary. There are seven IRT F one human rights is meeting privacy preservation. How can we keep private activities and conversations on the Internet in the era of what some called valence capitalism right?

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Okay, next slide, please.

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Area sessions so on the far right, GIH G, open mic. That's the steering committee, that's composed of all the area, directors and a couple of the people they all meet at the dais up at front, the iesg, the sorry the plenary isn't usually in the evening Tuesday Wednesday Thursday they take over at the biggest ballroom. They open it all up and everybody who attends the ITF meeting, which can be you know, isn't to attend the plenary.

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Not everybody does some people find it boring up after time they always run too long, but don't let me destroyed you it since it can be still in worthwhile. There are sometimes guest speakers who can be really very engaging. Dave, Clark I, remember recently about how you want to tilt the playing field. When you define a standard, if you care about privacy, then maybe you enable encryption by default. Things like that.

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The one on the far left is a talk about which, where particular sets of standards should be done. The IETF or ITU area session is the one I don't think. Area sessions are, for example, all of the transport area will get together and the presentations or updates from what's going on and transport. What's going on and routing something lunchtime, talks and there's one being given I think at this session. This meeting on I mean the the architecture of a high-performance router. In these days you know what that's like.

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Next often, the sponsor of the meeting the company gets to do, gets to have a speaker come exchange for buying everybody, lunch and snacks and food and stuff during the week the hackathon code sprint Scotland. So the hackathon is for working on the IETF tools that meets all day. Saturday I've been to a few. That's pretty low-key, quiet room people just typing away, so, okay, I'll take this ticket.

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That kind of stuff hackathons are where working groups or people participating in working groups, try to interoperability, their interoperable solutions.

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Teep the trusted execution environment has met a couple of times and, for example, they have a single board computer from on and they're testing how they can securely code into the trusted execution zone and their equivalent of Intel SGX. Maybe that's not as interesting now, but new features in the domain service. How can a quick, Oh Facebook will be there? Amazon will be there. Google will be there and they're all trying to make their quick implementations interoperate.

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That's what the big picture on the bottom is: that's old, it's Saturday and Sunday Frigga lieutenant you just have to sign up and say well, this is what I want to work on: bring your laptop or programming device. You know where you go. The code lounge is a room open up during the week. It's usually where the hackathon is. If people want to get away and be to you partly write some code or discuss code or even as I said, the mass editing intense group editing what happens before it.

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That can happen on the code lunch please.

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Networking social events, so there is no social event. This year the left is from the Singapore less the meeting in Singapore we had the movement at the National Aquarium in front of the huge fish tanks. Another social, but it is happening this year- is the sister's lunch sys ter s, I think this was also Singapore free lunch.

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Anyone who I guess these days, we would say, presents his female, but it's a you know, informal group there's a mailing list. Also. Everything in the ITF has no analyst.

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Obviously, I haven't been, but yeah it's a good way to meet friends and socialize in the context of the ITF meeting. Next, please, okay, before resources, I'll just mention one other thing that's happening. This meeting is an experiment. Is that Wednesday afternoon is set aside for unstructured meeting activity and that's the phrase used.

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If you want it together and say: hey, let's get a bunch of people together and talk about the privacy implications of DNS over TLS over HTTP. There's a gonna be a sign up. I think there's a sign up! Wiki entry right now you can find it in the ITF 104 section, there's also be whiteboards up there and so on, but it's a good place to have unscheduled informal meetings, a bunch of people yeah I want to get together and work with you on this part of the DNS stuff.

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So I know DNS is having a couple of side meetings there. So let me talk briefly about some of the resources and tools that are available to you next slide. Please.

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Most of these are available during the week. The RFC editor. Those are the people who do the actual copy editing. They don't rewrite documents, they turn computer geek speek into English, but they will push things back and say: hey you know, did you mean this or you know earlier you said, was and now you're saying. Is it's what changed yeah?

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So the ayah, the RFC editor they'll, usually be a presentation at the.

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Showing, if only nothing else, how many things have been published, slash, meaning the other they have a table, set up right near the registration area and they always have little candies. Sometimes they look sometimes there's little bags, M&Ms but say hi grab a bag and candy. That's what I do the I Ana staff? Those are the people who maintain the lists of what port numbers know is HTTP, 53 is DNS, 119 is nntp and so on, but all of the assigned numbers and and registrations they handle. All of that clerical work.

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The Secretariat who is shown here in the picture most of them are wearing their official blue team shirt. These are the people who make the meetings run. If you get their play, you can see many of them running around frantically, trying to make sure every room has the right, video equipment that the network is up.

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They don't run the network, but they will contact the people who do if the meetings, overflow or they'll make sure that the you know the food isn't coming out, quick enough at the opening greeting, meaning that they handle all of that they will. After Monday, they sit at the registration desk, collect the blue sheets from the working group chairs and so on. All they're only people, all amazingly nice people for putting up with you, know, hundreds if not over a thousand nerds putting demands on them.

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The executive director is also very nice and company who runs the whole administrative. Is that financial ad arm of all this stuff next slide? Please.

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The Amish bosom buds team, because it's not on buds man, it's a team. The ITF does not tolerate harassment. You can see the link there on the page. We have an anti-harassment policy if you feel harassed, intimidated, assaulted, not shy, but if something is doing something or a chair is doing something you know it that makes you feel uncomfortable and less valuable contact. One of these people there's ways in the dice. It says in the dock there two two two on how to contact them.

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Allison and Pete have been involved in the ITF for probably decades so this will Linda but she's. A new member of the team having just stepped up to replace I forget who the previous one was, but they're, very nice friendly. Warm people will talk to you and address your concerns. Next.

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Badges and dots and ribbons um so this used to be more formally organized the the one that counts. The most is the the white smiley face there in the upper right corner. That that says, yeah explicitly have said, come talk to me. If you have questions the blue says the blue dot says you're working group chair and the name of the working group, and so you can contact them.

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The various other ones you know may not matter too much. Iab is the senior technical, sorry, I est and I near the scene of chemical people, research group and so on.

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The tags that go underneath ombudsmen, team newcomer host the newcomers worthwhile one to meet fellow newcomers and say you know, oh my god, can you believe what just happened? Oh my gosh, can you believe words we going on here? This is crazy, I'm, never coming back or always coming back thanks to by. We didn't know.

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You now have the opportunity to get your own label and write your own label, your label, but your banner tag, whatever it's called and write anything you want on it, so they'd be miss less useful. As I said, the most useful thing is, if you have questions are wandering around unsure anybody with a badge on his experience. It can help people with the white sticker on anyone with the dot on is experience. It can help people with the white sticker have explicitly said. Please come talk to me next.

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Also, when you get the fun, when you get your badge, you can decide whether or not you want to be photographed and there will be two different color lanyard. You know the string that goes around your neck and clips to the patch. So you can decide you can change your mind at any time. There's always plenty of land roots there, but yeah, because there are roving photographers.

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You know that's how we got all the pages on these last slides on the slide deck and you can say no I don't want to have my picture taken and we will respect that.

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There's links here on tapes and the slides to these tutorials I'll show and I will be giving these no I'll be giving this tutorial with until we work in the hackathon Sunday there's going to be tutorials on how to RFC's using the tools we've got, how to use github to do documents and so on.

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There's a meeting wiki, which often has this is where people sign up for ride, share from experience once if you land in praha Airport just take the mass trial, you take a bus to stay and then we get on the subway and you can end up right in front of the hotel pretty much next slide. Please.

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There is a first-time attendees mailing lists, encourage you to you, don't have to no one's gonna check one way, the other there's a good placed a you know book a little place to ask newcomers, questions the sisters, mailing group, blog and there's also a mailing list.

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There is meaning one of the things we do is the I tip make some arrangements for travel companions. You know your spouse or partner. We have some activities for them to do and organized space, organized email, space for partners to hook up and talk to other people who are also in that same situation, frog if you're coming is an amazing city to be a tourist in next.

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More information, so the data tracker, as I mentioned before. That's the left link in the top right page, that is the home of all Ieft knowledge, all idea of working groups. It's not like the IETF, oh sure, site, the main site, which typically has no.

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What we do, here's, how we do here's meetings, but the data track will have. If you look, you squint, you can see, there's an About tab that says here's a working group charter documents, here's the things we're working on red flags were waiting for something the meetings we've had and so on. The pools page I wouldn't worry about as much, but it has a collection of tools to make it easier to develop our of season and so on. You wouldn't worry about it. Yet, unless you're already starting to write on that next beat.

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Participation so they're the that's handsome guy in the jacket third over right next to the white shirt, that's Tamiya our host right. Yes, they run me deco. It's pretty amazing! You know video conferencing that comes up goes down during the course of the week. I mean comes up, stays up and then they take it down at the end of the week, you don't have to participate face-to-face. It's not it's actually reasonably good, reasonably okay, to participate remotely it's about as good as your average, at least as good as your AB corporate video conf.

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And I mean that as a compliment, the network, the IETF, runs its own network and what that means is people we've made arrangements with the hotel and the local telecom service. We run our own high-speed leased lines into the into the hotel into all the meeting rooms. Wi-Fi. Is there it's really good?

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There's a terminal room which has printers got wired connectivity. If you need to plug in your laptop and get the Wi-Fi working, there are ipv6 ipv4 6to4 legacy, which is the plaintext unencrypted network. Don't use that one and they'll be notices during the when things are, if there's any issues, but the people there are pretty amazing and it's impressive. What kind of network they get and you'll never see fast. Speed like that, you know hotel outside the IDF.

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Next, you know I'm about out of time. Jabber jabber is how we do messaging during the meetings number three there. If you want to care about the quick meeting, you can join the chat, qu IC at Jericho, ETS org, a list of clients, that's where the jabber scribe, provides the context for remote people. Oh we're on page 17 of the slide and errors. Eric is talking next slide. Please enjoy off. It's no coincidence that all these people are happy le phare holding his badge up as being a goof allison there on the upper left.

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Also on the Ombuds team. It's five six, seven TECA Palooza a lot of information a chance to make some excellent contacts feel free to go up to anyone after a working session. Go hey, yeah, I'd, like that, are you sure you met this or I didn't quite understand what you're trying to say people would love to talk about the internet and technology. That's why we're all here! That's why we're all coming to the I staff meeting and with that our time is up and our last slides are done. I will be at the newcomers.

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Tutorial feel free to come up and ask questions the last slide here. We do really want answers on the survey there's an age of teen, which is a working group to educate people. They organize the tutorials such as this one, the tutorials that are on Sunday the guides program and in the debrief session on Thursday morning, the survey it's pretty easy to to to fill out. You can I attended this and here's what I thought about it.

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One and I think a couple sessions ago we got like three hours last time we got like 30 answers, so it really helps and use that feedback to iterate on the next generation of slides and talks and events. So if you have ideas about other ways to help newcomers along, that's really why control Karen and myself among a staff among a group of dozens here, please let us know Cary's or any closing words. You want to say.

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No thank you, like you, said, fill out. The survey and I hope you enjoyed meeting.

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Thank you boy see you next week. Oh we're gonna happen. Alright, thank but thanks to Maya.