Internet Engineering Task Force - IETF

• develops Internet “standards”

  not “standards” in the ISO / ITU / ANSI sense
  
  standards in the ‘lots of people use it’ sense

• does little policy

  technology does dictate some policy - e.g RFC 2050
  
  required good security in IPv6

• international, non-member organization

• IETF is the standards creation part of the Internet Society (ISOC)

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