The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) focuses on longer term research issues related to the Internet while the parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), focuses on the shorter term issues of engineering and standards making.
the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF )The IAB (Internet Architecture Board) is the Internet Society overseer of the technical evolution of the Internet. The IAB supervises the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ), which oversees the evolution of TCP/IP , and the Internet Research Task Force ( IRTF ), which works on network technology.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the body that defines standard operating internet protocols such as TCP/IP. The IETF is an open standards organization supervised by the Internet Society's Internet Architecture Board (IAB).
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