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Internet Engineering Task Force
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Open Internet standards organization
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- IETF
- Formation
- January 1986
- Type
- Non-profit Standards organization
- Purpose
- Creating voluntary standards to maintain and improve the usability and interoperability of the Internet
- Parent organization
- Internet Society
- Website
- ietf .org
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet responsible for the technical standards of the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or requirements and all its participants are volunteers. Their work is usually funded by employers or other sponsors.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Internet Engineering Task Force” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.