The new GREEN working group gets ready for an energy efficient Internet

The Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (GREEN) working group will explore use cases, derive requirements, and provide solutions to optimize energy efficiency across the Internet.

• Diego Lopez GREEN Working Group Co-chair
• Robert Wilton GREEN Working Group Co-chair

IETF Annual Report 2023

The IETF Annual Report 2023 provides a summary of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), and RFC Editor community activities from last year.

IETF 122 Bangkok registration open

Registration is now available for the IETF 122 Bangkok meeting scheduled for 15-21 March 2025, which is the first time registration for an IETF meeting has been open before the preceding meeting registration has closed.

• Jay Daley IETF Executive Director

First Impressions from the IAB AI-CONTROL workshop

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) organized a workshop on 19-20 September 2024 to discuss issues around and possibilities for practical mechanisms that publishers of data on the Internet could employ to opt out of use by the Large Language Models and other machine learning techniques used for Artificial Intelligence (AI).

• Suresh Krishnan AI-CONTROL Workshop Program Committee Chair
• Mark Nottingham AI-CONTROL Workshop Program Committee Chair

New Participant activities at the IETF: Major expansion coming for IETF 122!

The IETF New Participants program has a long history of helping people just starting out in the IETF be more effective. Based on feedback from program participants over the past two years, and in consultation with the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the program will be significantly enhanced starting with IETF 122 Bangkok.

• Michelle Cotton IETF New Participant Ambassador