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Day 2 / Track 3 / Talk 1 Talk – Keynote: Open Source, the IETF, and You Speakers: Alissa Cooper Report by: Michael Kehoe
Durint the keynote, Alissa Cooper, the chair of the IETF, walked through the role of the IETF and gave two examples of standards (QUIC & TLS 1.3), their journey through the IETF process as well as ways of interacting with the IETF and the importance of interaction between between implementers and the IETF.
Alissa begun by discussing how the IETF works and the standard document that it produces, namely the RFC series. Then she mentioned the focus of her talk, creating a standard and an implementation in parallel. To illustrate her talk, she mentioned two prominent examples in the IETF, TLS 1.3 and QUIC.
In regards to TLS, Alissa mentioned that support and implementation for TLS 1.2 took 5 years. However in the case of TLS 1.3, which was finalized last August, which solves issues from the cryptographic algorithms and makes more improvements, chrome and firefox already support 11% of the traffic and 50% of facebook traffic is using TLS 1.3. The reason for this fast support was the parallel implementation. There was a real-time feedback loop between the standardization process and the implementation. One of the reasons this was feasible, is that the IETF has a flexible model. While standards take a lot of time to be completed (TLS 1.3 took 4 years) the total effort is collaborative and provides a better outcome.
Alissa then switched to QUIC. QUIC is an ongoing effort, developed initially
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