1. 1 IETF and Internet Challenges and Opportunities Jari Arkko Expert, Ericsson Research Chair, IETF

2. Background New management always wants to understand the situation (to take some action where needed) I am trying to do this for both the IETF itself as well as learning quite a bit about the Internet at the same time Technical, organisatorial, practical, political and governance issues

3. Part 1 – The IETF There are plenty of good news: The role of the Internet protocol stack Stable and international participation (60 countries) Some current topics have wide interest from the world Significant changes from early 2000s (professional management, transparency, tooling, copyrights, …)

4. Some IETF Challenges Process that is heavier at the end Communication and IETF’s role in the world Evolving the participant base … But the big things are: Keep delivering relevant standards, timely Is the IETF responding to the needs of the exponentially growing Internet world?

5. Making Standards Standards-driven vs. code driven worlds Standards are important, but consider these: o The HTML5 experience o Open source o “Winner takes it all” market o WebRTC vs. SIP TTM, software-defineability (SDx) and market advantage rule We (Ericsson, IETF, 3GPP) need to adopt to the new world or risk being taken over by others

6. Some IETF Actions Scaling – move work from the IESG to WGs Improving international participation More open communication “Make IETF work better” is mostly practical work Need a way to address new ways of making standards – one answer is that the IETF works on the powerful frameworks such as WebRTC, WoT

8. Part 2 – Internet-Level Challenges Technical Political

9. Technical Internet-Level Challenges Deployment challenges (IPv6, i18n, DNSSEC, …) Speed of network innovation (SDN) De-commissioning PSTN, emergency communications Peering and other practical challenges in the world Changing traffic patterns New types of applications (IOT) … Some of the things on the list are practical, not standards- related…

10. Some Corporate Focus Areas Google: Ability to evolve and change the Internet, WebRTC, transport (TCP, HTTP, …), IPv6 Microsoft: Software-Defined-* Huawei: SDN, IOT, MPLS, WebRTC, whitespace Nokia: Interoperability in a multi-vendor world, e.g., same data on multiple devices, WoT Renesas: IP over cellular, IPv6, home networking

11. Political Internet-Level Challenges Political interests in Internet governance Various harmful drives from countries around the world on fragmenting the Internet, excessive content control, and excessive (il)legal interception Perceived developed – developing world split Inter-SDO competition

13. Standardization the Internet way Details on: http://open-stand.org Cooperation Adherence to Principles Collective Empowerment Availability Voluntary Adoption driver for innovation Borderless commerce