CENTR has released the report of the IETF86 meeting held in Orlando, Florida
The 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force in Orlando, Florida, saw a leadership change in the top IP-protocol standards body. For the first time in IETF history, an engineer from the mobile sector took the helm - Jari Arkko (Ericsson engineer and long-time IETF contributor) has taken over from US security expert Russ Housley. While Arkko promised to address the hotly discussed diversity issue – and also further internationalization of the IETF, Housley's farwell speech addressed Governments asking them to embrace and officially recognize IETF standards – in reaction to last years controversies over the role of standards of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
The meeting in Orlando saw discussions about the potential new restful Whois protocol and additional add-ons to the DNS including a DNS API and a new DNS Resource Record Type.
The SOPA (Start Of Policy Authority) Ressource Record Type would allow (according to its author Andrew Sullivan, Dyn) to "assert a common assert a common administrative realm by placing a resource record (RR) at DNS names within the policy realm“.
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