Internet Architecture Board

RFC2850

IAB Comments to United States NTIA on the Green Paper: Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things

On 2 March 2017, the IAB provided comments to United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on the Green Paper: Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things that was released on January 12, 2017. The Green Paper can be found on the NTIA website at <https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/iot_green_paper_01122017.pdf>. The Request for Comments [Docket Number 170105023-7023-01] […]

IAB Statement on IPv6

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB), following discussions in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), advises its partner Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and organizations that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses has been exhausted, and as a result we are seeing an increase in both dual-stack (that is, both IPv4 and IPv6) and IPv6-only deployments, a […]

IAB Statement on Internet Confidentiality

In 1996, the IAB and IESG recognized that the growth of the Internet depended on users having confidence that the network would protect their private information.  RFC 1984 documented this need.  Since that time, we have seen evidence that the capabilities and activities of attackers are greater and more pervasive than previously known.  The IAB […]