Internet Architecture Board

Dirk Kutscher has been appointed as the next @irtf@discuss.systems Chair to begin at #IETF122 in Mar 2025. Thanks to Colin Perkins who has served chair for the past 6 years and to other volunteer candidates. More info on IRTF Research Groups, programs & workshops at: https://www.irtf.org

A secure, resilient, and interoperable Internet benefits the public interest and supports human rights to privacy and freedom of opinion and expression. Read the Internet Architecture Board statement on encryption and mandatory client-side scanning of content: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/statement-iab-statement-on-encryption-and-mandatory-client-side-scanning-of-content/

The Workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access will examine the technical and architectural choices involved in solutions for age-based restrictions on access to content. Interested in participating? Submit a paper by 2025-07-31. Details at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/agews/about/

At #IETF122 Bangkok, a special session about the upcoming World Summit on Information Security (WSIS) 20 year review provided an overview of how the IAB is engaging in this opportunity to recommit to the multistakeholder approach to Internet governance: https://www.ietf.org/blog/technical-community-involvement-in-internet-governance/

Call for Papers: The Next Era of NEtwork Management OPerationS (NEMOPS) workshop on 3-5 December 2024 aims to chart a path for the development of future network management protocols and techniques. Read more about how to contribute and participate: https://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-nemops-workshop-cfp/

The IAB is pleased to announce the reappointment of Victor Kuarsingh to the Internet Society Board of Trustees. Victor will serve a three-year term that will commence with the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Internet Society in June. The IAB thanks Victor for taking on this role. Read the full announcement by the @internetsociety@techpolicy.social at: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/04/final-results-of-the-2025-internet-society-board-of-trustees-elections-and-ietf-selections/

Want to know more about how interoperable technical standards help ensure a robust global Internet? Join the #IGF2023 IETF Open Forum on 12 Oct 2023 (1300 JST/0400 UTC) to learn more, discuss, and ask questions. More details & remote registration: https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2023-town-hall-32-internet-engineering-task-force-open-forum

The AI-CONTROL workshop gathered ~50 individuals with a broad range of perspectives to discuss how publishers of data on the Internet could opt out of use by the LLMs and other machine learning techniques used for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Read more: https://www.ietf.org/blog/impressions-ai-control-workshop/

Internet communications and applications have both environmental costs and benefits. The official report from the online workshop the Internet Architecture Board ran in December 2022 to explore and understand these impacts has been published as RFC 9547: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9547.html

WATCH: The IAB Open Session at the #IETF123 Madrid meeting included presentations on Internet-governance related activities and featured a presentation about the work of the Olympic Broadcasting System. Full recordings are available at: https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf123-iabopen/

On 2025-07-21, the Internet Architecture Board provided input to the United Nations' WSIS+20 Review Elements Paper. stressing that "participation from a broad range of stakeholders on an equal footing is the bedrock of Internet governance." Read at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/statement-iab-wsis20-stakeholder-consultations-inputs-to-the-elements-paper-from-the-iab/

A first draft of the Next Era of Network Management Operations (NEMOPS) Workshop report captures discussions among expert participants, key takeaways, and next steps to shape the future of network management protocols and techniques. Read more and join the conversation: https://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-nemops-report/

Call for Papers: The AI-CONTROL workshop in Sept. 2024 aims to explore opt-out mechanisms for methods commonly used in AI-oriented crawling techniques, and to build an understanding of use cases, requirements and other considerations in this space. More: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/aicontrolws/about/

IAB workshops bring together a broad range of Internet experts to discuss topics related to Internet architecture, protocols, standards & future directions. Read the review by IAB member @DhruvDhody@mstdn.social w/insights gathered from more than a decade of workshops: https://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-workshop-review/

The “Barriers for Internet Access of Services" fully-online workshop discussed how increasing barriers to meaningful access to Internet-based services pose challenges & amount to a form of disenfranchisement. Read more about topics covered and next steps: https://www.ietf.org/blog/iab-bias-workshop/

REMINDER: Call for Paper deadline 24 Nov! The Barriers to Internet Access of Services (BIAS) workshop aims to collect reports on barriers to access & get a better understanding of how the Internet functions in different parts of the world Details at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/biasws/about/