{"id":1213,"date":"2011-04-06T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T14:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2011-04-06T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T14:04:47","slug":"a-new-role-for-eliot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"A New Role For Eliot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ietflogo2f.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-152\" title=\"ietflogo2f\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ietflogo2f.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a>As many of you know I have a long history within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\">Internet Engineering Task Force<\/a> (IETF), having been involved since 1989.\u00a0 The IETF is responsible for many of the underlying protocols that computers use to talk with one another for purposes such as Email and the Web.\u00a0 I have served as the chair of two working groups, a research group, and have written numerous drafts and requests for comments.<\/p>\n<p>As of late I have been involved with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itu.int\">International Telecommunications Union<\/a> (ITU).\u00a0\u00a0 The ITU is a U.N. organization whose origins date back to at least 1869, long prior to forming of the U.N. The ITU has developed  numerous data communication standards, including X.509, which is what web encryption uses, as well as many of the codecs that are used on the network to transmit voice and video.<\/p>\n<p>Last May I was able to join the United States delegation to the World Telecommunications Development Conference (WTDC) in Hyderabad India.\u00a0 Now I have been asked to serve as the Internet Architecture Board liaison to the ITU-T.\u00a0 My role will be first and foremost to see that liaisons (messages between the organizations) are properly handled by the IAB and IETF.\u00a0 I will advise the IAB and IETF on how the ITU-T functions, and the context around particular liaison statements.\u00a0 Occasionally I will assist in drafting liaison statements.<\/p>\n<p>These organizations operate quite differently.\u00a0 The IETF is driven by individual participation, where people needn&#8217;t even attend meetings to participate in decisions.\u00a0 The ITU-T is an intergovernmental organization in which only governments may make decisions, although others may advise.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important role at an important time, because when these two organizations do not cooperate at some level, they end up duplicating and competing with each other&#8217;s work.\u00a0 That can lead to  more expensive products or products that do not work well together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know I have a long history within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), having been involved since 1989.\u00a0 The IETF is responsible for many of the underlying protocols that computers use to talk with one another for purposes such as Email and the Web.\u00a0 I have served as the chair of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Role For Eliot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,6],"tags":[97,404],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-us","tag-ietf","tag-itu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}