1. IETF: Why you should care
SAFNOG 3 – 5th September 2017
Kevin Chege
ISOC
Presentation title – Client name

2. What is the Internet Society?
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What is the Internet Society?
The Internet Society (ISOC) is a cause-based organization that works with governments, industries, and others to ensure the technologies and policies that helped develop and evolve the Internet will continue into the future.
Our programs cultivate an Internet that is open to everyone, everywhere and aim to ensure that it will continue to be a tool for creativity, innovation, and economic growth.
MISSION: To promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
VISION: The Internet is for everyone
The Internet Society:
Encourages open development of standards, protocols, administration.
Enables economic growth in developing countries through education and training
Fosters participation and and develops new leaders in areas important to the evolution of the Internet.
Provides reliable information about the Internet.
Leads and facilitates discussion of issues that affect Internet evolution and developments.
The Internet Society works globally, across the broad range of policy, technology, and development, which allows it to bring unique perspectives and insight about how to address some of the significant issues facing the Internet today.

3. Global Presence 100+ 65,000+ 145+ 6 18 100+ organization members
The Internet Society
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Global Presence
NORTH AMERICA
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
EUROPE
AFRICA
THE MIDDLE EAST
ASIA
100+ organization members
Tens of thousands of individual members
90+ chapters worldwide
Regional Bureaus: Africa, Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, North America, South & South East Asia
OCTOBER 2013
Chapters
100+
Chapters Worldwide
65,000+
Members and
Supporters
145+
Organization Members 6
Regional Bureaus 18
Countries with ISOC Offices

4. Internet Standards

5. HTTP BGP IPv4 TCP DNSSEC DNS IPv6 HTTPv2 SMTP UDP FTP SSH SNMP ICMP
OSPF
IMAP
NAT
SPF
TCP
DNSSEC
DNS
IPv6
TLS
POP
DHCP
HTTP
HTTPv2
SMTP
UDP

6. Internet Engineering Task Force

7. What is the IETF?
The Internet Engineering Task Force is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
The actual technical work of the IETF is done in its working groups,
GOAL: To make the Internet work better

8. OPEN Open Participation Technical Competence Rough Consensus
Volunteer Core
OPEN

9. Main activities at the IETF?
Internet of Things aka IoT
IETF’s standards are at the heart of the Internet of Things – standards that will allow watches, TVs, Cars, sensors, etc to use the Internet
Security and Privacy
Making the Internet safer and maintaining trust
Real Time Communication
Live Video communication eg WebRTC

10. How the IETF works (coarse)
Work is divided into 7 Areas
Each Area is lead by Area Director(s) (AD)
Under each area are IETF Working Groups

11. IETF Working Groups
Working Groups consist of several individuals working together to produce an RFC or Request For Comment document
Working Groups are typically created to address a specific problem and have a charter
Working Groups are generally expected to be short-lived in nature. 
Decision made using rough consensus: meaning that “..a very large majority of those who care must agree”

12. IoT example from the IETF

13. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
Automobiles and vehicles of all types are increasingly connected to the Internet.
Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I, not to be mistaken with V2Internet) communications are still being developed
Simply put, vehicles could use IP transport to communicate with each other to relay information about speed, direction or with infrastructure (eg parking sensors)

14. Models and Use-Cases for ITS

15. IP Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (ipwave)
“This group will work on V2V and V2I use-cases where IP is well-suited as a networking technology and will develop an IPv6 based solution to establish direct and secure connectivity between a vehicle and other vehicles or stationary systems. These vehicular networks are characterized by dynamically changing network topologies and connectivity.”

16. IP Address assignment for vehicles https://tools. ietf

17. Routing and Address Assignment using Lane/Position Information
“Kato et al. proposed an IPv6 address assignment scheme using lane and position information. In this addressing scheme, each lane of a road segment has a unique IPv6 prefix. When it moves in a lane in a road segment, a vehicle autoconfigures its IPv6 address with its MAC address and the prefix assigned to the lane.”

18. Automatic IP Address Configuration in VANETs
Fazio et al. “In a Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET), Vehicular Address Configuration (VAC) dynamically elects a leader-vehicle to quickly provide vehicles with unique IP addresses. The leader-vehicle maintains updated information on configured addressed in its connected VANET. It aims at the reduction of the frequency of IP address reconfiguration due to mobility.”

19. Lets assume that those are the methods for assigning IP addresses
Lets assume that those are the methods for assigning IP addresses. Which is better for assigning IP addresses? Why?

20. A possible use case for IP Wave?

21. RFC 8148
“This document describes how to use IP-based emergency services mechanisms to support the next generation of emergency calls placed by vehicles (automatically in the event of a crash or serious incident, or manually invoked by a vehicle occupant) and conveying vehicle, sensor, and location data related to the crash or incident.”

22. RFC 8148
“The migration of emergency calls placed by in-vehicle systems to next-generation (all-IP) technology per this document provides a standardized mechanism to identify such calls and to convey crash data with the call setup, as well as enabling additional communications modalities and enhanced functionality”

23. What could adoption of V2V/V2I mean?
For Vehicle Manufacturers?
For Internet Service Providers?
For Content Providers?
For Governments?
For Drivers?
For road safety?

24. Africa and the IETF

25. Participation and Awareness
Participation by engineers from the African region at the IETF is very low
There are some from the region who have been following working groups, attended meetings, and even a few who have submitted documents for review
Low awareness/adoption of some key Internet Standards in the region
Little research on Internet Standards in the region
Internet is being designed for the region not by it

26. How can you participate/raise awareness?
Join a Working Group Mailing list
Join a recent one
Just join a few
READ
IETF Viewing Hubs
Teach IETF content in Universities
Hackathons

27. Case study: Brazil CGI.BR
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
Mission of CGI.BR
“recommending standards for technical and operational procedures for the Internet in Brazil;
establishing strategic directives related to the use and development of the Internet in Brazil”
They have a budget to send academia to the IETF to follow the work and advise the committee

28. Hackathons

29. Africa IETF Mailing list
Talk/update about IETF activities on the continent
Update about upcoming activities
Coming soon
webinar on V2V and V2I
Webinar on IDeaS

30. Thank You!
Kevin G. Chege

31. References http://ietf.org http://irtf.org
References
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