IETF 110

IETF 110
Name	IETF 110
Location	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dates	March 2021
Organizer	Internet Engineering Task Force
Participants	Engineers, Researchers, Administrators

IETF 110 IETF 110 convened as a major meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force in Amsterdam, bringing together participants from across the Internet Architecture Board, Internet Research Task Force, European Commission, ITU, ICANN, IEEE, World Wide Web Consortium, Mozilla Foundation, Google, Microsoft, Facebook (Meta), Amazon (company), Apple Inc., Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Arista Networks, Broadcom Inc., Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, Samsung Electronics, Intel, ARM Ltd., Red Hat, Canonical (software company), Cloudflare, Akamai Technologies, Fastly, Zoom Video Communications, Slack Technologies, Dropbox, GitHub, GitLab, Netlify, DigitalOcean, OVHcloud, Hetzner Online, Equinix, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure.

Overview

IETF 110 served as a forum for standards discussion, protocol development, and interoperability testing involving working groups from the Applications Area, Internet Area, Security Area, Routing Area, Transport Area, Operations and Management Area, and Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area. The meeting included coordination with bodies such as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Regional Internet Registries, RIPE NCC, ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AfriNIC, and stakeholder organizations including European Telecommunications Standards Institute, 3rd Generation Partnership Project, OMA SpecWorks, Open Networking Foundation, Linux Foundation, and Open Source Initiative. Delegates represented research institutions such as MIT, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, University of Oxford, TU Delft, KAIST, Tsinghua University, National University of Singapore.

Participants and Leadership

Leadership and chairs included members of the Internet Engineering Steering Group, area directors from the IAB, working group chairs with affiliations to IETF Trust, vendor representatives from Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and Nokia, and academic contributors from Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, University College London, Imperial College London. Administrative support involved personnel from ISOC, IETF Administration LLC, and IETF Secretariat contractors collaborating with local hosts such as Amsterdam Convention Factory and regional hosts including Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Notable individual contributors included engineers affiliated with Paul Vixie, Van Jacobson, David Clark, Scott Bradner, Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Geoff Huston, Barbara Fox, Margaret Salter, Leslie Daigle.

Meetings and Sessions

Sessions covered protocol specifications, implementations, and interoperability tests across topics including QUIC, HTTP/3, TLS 1.3, DNS over HTTPS, DNS over TLS, BGP, MPLS, SRv6, Segment Routing, RPKI, SIDR, DNSSEC, OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, WebAuthn, COSE, MUD, YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gRPC, WebRTC, SIP, RTP, NTP, Precision Time Protocol, IPv6, IPv4, Dual-Stack Lite, Carrier-Grade NAT, Path MTU Discovery, TCP Fast Open, ECN, Congestion Control, LEDBAT, DetNet, 5G Core, Network Slicing, IoT Security, LoRaWAN, Zigbee, Thread (network protocol), MQTT, CoAP, DNS-SD, mDNS, Zero Tier, Babel routing protocol, OSPF, IS-IS.

Key Technical Outcomes

Working groups advanced drafts toward proposed standards for QUIC and HTTP/3 interop, refined TLS 1.3 deployment guidance, and progressed documents on RPKI operational practices, BGP security, and DNSSEC operational experience. Consensus decisions affected obsoleting or updating RFCs maintained by the RFC Editor and coordination with IANA for parameter registries. Outputs included updated Internet-Drafts submitted to the RFC Series process, interoperability test results shared with IETF Datatracker, proposed updates to BFD, LISP, SRv6 encapsulation guidelines, and operational notes on IPv6 transition mechanisms. The meeting also produced position statements and liaison reports exchanged with ETSI, 3GPP, ISO/IEC, and the World Bank on connectivity and deployment economics.

Social and Community Events

Community engagement featured birds-of-a-feather sessions attended by representatives from ISOC, IETF Fellowship Program, IETF Hackathon organizers, Open Source Summit, RIPE Community, APNIC Academy, Netnod, NLnet Labs, SIDR Working Group community, and meetup-style gatherings with participants from Hack in the Box, DEF CON alumni, and regional network operator groups such as NOG Amsterdam and UKNOF. Diversity and inclusion events were organized with partners from Women in Tech, Techfugees, Internet Society Next Generation Leaders, and IETF Mentoring Program. Vendor-sponsored social events involved booths and demos from Cisco Live, Juniper Networks Tech Day, Google Networking, Microsoft Research, and Cloudflare Speed Week.

Logistics and Venue

The meeting took place in Amsterdam with venue coordination addressing travel, accommodation, and local arrangements involving the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, local transit authorities, and hospitality partners including Royal Schiphol Group, Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, Hotel Okura Amsterdam, NH Collection Amsterdam, Conservatorium Hotel, and conference services provided by Amsterdam Convention Factory. Public health and safety coordination referenced guidance from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, local Municipality of Amsterdam, and national authorities. Accessibility services and local cultural programming engaged institutions such as Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Category:Internet Engineering Task Force meetings