Computer Networks

4th Year, Fall 2012

Term presentation

Term Project

The IETF Standards

Overview

The RFCs series has been around for more than 40 years. The first RFC ever was published in April 1969. Since then, the RFC series has been a continuous flow of technical enrichment to engineers, scientists, researchers, and the whole world. The objective of this project is to have an understanding of how internet standards are developed and written. In order to achieve this goal, this project is required by all students in the class.

Go to the IETF working group website at The IETF is divided into the following area

 Applications Area

 General Area

 Internet Area

 Operations and Management Area

 Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area

 Routing Area

 Security Area

 Transport Area

Each area has working groups (WG). Each working group focuses on certain tasks and activities in order to come up with RFCs. Students are encouraged to access and read the educational information at and to get a high level idea about how the IEFT is organized.RFC2026 explains the IETF standard process. RFC4844(and its update RFC5741) provides an overview and history of the RFC series.IETF Outcomes - Successes and Failures also provides a good perspective.

Deliverables Required by Students

  • Divide yourself into teams of 3 to 4 students
  • Each team is required to do the following
  1. Choose an IETF WG that has at least twointernet draft and twoRFCs
  2. Prepare a presentation about the WG. The presentation should contain the following
  3. Title with the names of the students in the team.
  4. Agenda
  5. Summary of the Area. We want to understand what the IETF area does and what it is specialized in
  6. The charter of the working group. That is, what the job of the working group is
  7. A summary of at least one of the current internet drafts.
  8. A summary of the at least one of the RFCs that the working group has generated so far.
  9. One slide containing the contact information of the students
  10. The presentation should be presented in 10-15 minutes.

Rules

  1. Student teams and IETF working group must be defined on or beforeSaturdayNov10th, 2012. A representative from each group should submit the following
  2. names of the students, including his/her emails
  3. name of the IETF WG
  4. the URL of the IETF WG

The information should also be filled in the google spreadsheet on or before the above date. The TA will provide the link to the google spread

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Credit

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  1. Each team should be working on a unique IETF WG.
  2. Conflicting teams will be resolved arbitrarily by the instructor.
  3. The presentation must be turned in by email (or appropriate electronic form) to the TA on or before TuesdayDecember 11th, 2012.
  4. The presentation should be in either PPT or PDF format.
  5. Students will start to present on the week starting on Dec16th, 2012.
  6. Even though the presentation is presumed to be prepared by all members of the team, only one student will be presenting at any time. Multiple students may present different sections of the presentation.
  7. The choice of the presenter is up to the instructor
  8. Questions can be directed to any student, not necessarily to the current presenter.
  9. Grading is based on the following
  10. Quality and organization of the presentation
  11. Technical Depth of the material
  12. Sticking to the planned presentation period
  13. Ability to present to skeptical and even hostile audience
  14. Ability to answer questions by all team members.
  15. Demonstrating deep understanding of the presentation material

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