Governments should recognize open Internet standards, said outgoing Internet Engineering...
Governments should recognize open Internet standards, said outgoing Internet Engineering Task Force Chairman Russ Housley, in his farewell speech during the IETF meeting in here Orlando, Fla. “If you've embraced the Internet, you should also embrace the standards that make…
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the Internet work.” Global interoperability was key to making the Internet valuable, he told us, but “no one is in charge of the Internet. Instead, many people cooperate to make it work.” Housley said he'd “strongly encourage all governments to … formally recognize the IETF standards that allow the Internet to work.” Housley’s successor, Finnish IPv6 expert Jari Arkko of Ericsson, said the IETF must “go out more and explain what it does” and talk to governments. Arkko promised a look at issues like lack of participation from participants outside of North America and Europe. IETF is planning its first meeting in Latin America. Arkko rejected the notion that Internet standards are all finished, saying smart objects, the Internet of things and real-time Web communication were all calling for standard work. This week, the IETF discussed a standard videocodec for real-time Web communication.