Transcript A tale of two views

IETF and Internet
Challenges and Opportunities
Jari Arkko
Expert, Ericsson Research
Chair, IETF
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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
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, …)
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?
Making Standards
Standards-driven vs. code driven worlds
Standards are important, but consider these:
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The HTML5 experience
Open source
“Winner takes it all” market
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
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
Part 2 – Internet-Level
Challenges
 Technical
 Political
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 standardsrelated…
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
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
Details on:
http://open-stand.org