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Internet Engineering Task Force
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Open Internet standards organization
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- IETF
- Formation
- January 1986
- Type
- Non-profit Standards organization
- Purpose
- Creating voluntary standards to maintain and improve the usability and interoperability of the Internet
- Parent organization
- Internet Society
- Website
- ietf .org
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- Official website
- www.ietf.org
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- Commons category
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- inception
- 1986-01-17
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/ietf
- social media followers
- 15686
- number of participants
- 2810
- short name
- IETF
- source code repository URL
- github.com/ietf
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet responsible for the technical standards of the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or requirements and all its participants are volunteers. Their work is usually funded by employers or other sponsors.
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