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Encyclopedia > Internet Architecture Board

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is the committee charged with oversight of the technical and engineering development of the Internet by the Internet Society (ISOC). Engineering is the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. ... The Internet Society or ISOC is an international organization that promotes Internet use and access. ...


It oversees a number of Task Forces, of which the most important are the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standard bodies; and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite. ... The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is a sister group to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ...


The body which eventually became the IAB was originally formed by the United States Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under the name Internet Configuration Control Board in 1979; it eventually became the Internet Advisory Board in September, 1984, and then the Internet Activities Board in May, 1986 (the name was changed, while keeping the same acronym). It finally became the Internet Architecture Board, under ISOC, in January, 1992, as part of the Internet's transition from a U.S.-government entity to an international, public entity. The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated as DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department, is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government. ... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. ... For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ... This article is about the year 1984. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...


IAB activities

The IAB's current responsibilities include:

  • Architectural Oversight: The IAB provides oversight of, and occasional commentary on, aspects of the architecture for the network protocols and procedures used by the Internet.
  • Standards Process Oversight and Appeal: The IAB provides oversight of the process used to create Internet Standards. The IAB serves as an appeal board for complaints of improper execution of the standards process, through acting as an appeal body in respect of an Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) standards decision.
  • Request for Comments series: The IAB is responsible for editorial management and publication of the Request for Comments (RFC) document series.
  • External Liaison: The IAB acts as representative of the interests of the IETF in liaison relationships with other organizations concerned with standards and other technical and organizational issues relevant to the world-wide Internet.
  • Advice to the Internet Society: The IAB acts as a source of advice and guidance to the Board of Trustees and Officers of ISOC concerning technical, architectural, procedural, and (where appropriate) policy matters pertaining to the Internet and its enabling technologies.
  • Internet Engineering Steering Group Confirmation: The IAB confirms the IETF Chair and IESG Area Directors, from nominations provided by the IETF Nominating Committee.
  • Internet Research Task Force Chair: The IAB selects a chair of the IRTF for a renewable two year term.

In networking, a communications protocol or network protocol is the specification of a set of rules for a particular type of communication. ... The Internet Engineering Steering Group is a body composed of the Internet Engineering Task Force Chair and Area Directors: Internet Area (int) Operations & Management Area (ops) Routing Area (rtg) Security Area (sec) Transport Area (tsv) Temporary Sub-IP Area (sub) and so on. ... In internetworking and computer network engineering, Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to Internet technologies. ... For other uses of IANA, see IANA (disambiguation). ... ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ...

Further reading

  • Carpenter, Brian (editor), Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (RFC 2850, May 2000)

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RFC 2850 (rfc2850) - Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) (1892 words)
The Role of the IAB The IAB is chartered both as a committee of the IETF and as an advisory body of the Internet Society.
IAB Organization 3.1 IAB chair The members of the IAB shall select one of its full members to serve as the chair of the IAB, with all of the duties and responsibilities normally associated with such a position.
The chair of the IAB may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the IAB, or as a result of his or her departure from the IAB.
IAB, Internet Architecture Board (441 words)
IAB members are deeply committed to making the Internet function effectively and evolve to meet a large scale, high speed future.
In June, 1992, the Internet Activities Board was renamed the Internet Architecture Board by the Internet Society at the INET92 conference in Kobe, Japan.
The IAB is composed of 13 members, made up of 12 members nominated by the IETF and approved by the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, plus the IETF chair who may vote on all official actions except approval of Internet Engineering Steering Group members and IESG appeals.
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