The IAB is chartered both as a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and as an advisory body of the Internet Society (ISOC). Its responsibilities include architectural oversight of IETF activities, Internet Standards Process oversight and appeal, and the appointment of the RFC Editor. The IAB is also responsible for the management of the IETF protocol parameter registries.

Announcements

November 2009

• The IAB published minutes from numerous meetings held in September, October, and November, 12 November 2009.

• The IAB appointed Fred Baker as liaison to the U.S. Smart Grid initiative and IETF representative on the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), 4 November 2009.

October 2009

• The IAB confirmed Thomas Narten for another year as the IETF liaison to the ICANN Board of Directors, 28 October 2009.

September 2009

• The IAB confirmed Henk Uijterwaal as the IETF-selected member on the 2010 ICANN NomCom, 11 September 2009.

August 2009

• The IAB sent comments on behalf of the IETF to The European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry liaison, on the EC's whitepaper "Modernising ICT Standardization in the EU - The Way Forward", 28 August 2009.

July 2009

• The IAB established a formal liaison relationship with the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), and confirmed Barry Leiba to act as the first liaison in this role, 30 July 2009
• The IAB publishes minutes from numerous business meetings held in April, May, June, and July, 30 July 2009
• The IAB sent liaison correspondence to ITU-T SG2 on the topic of ITU work on e164.arpa, 24 July 2009

June 2009

• The IAB publishes minutes from their March 2009 business meetings, 28 June 2009

• The IAB sent a response to the NOI on the expiration of the ICANN JPA, 8 June 2009

• The IAB published a Call for Nominations for the RFC Series Editor (RSE) and the Independent Submissions Editor (ISE), two roles in the new RFC Editor model, 8 June 2009

• The IAB sent a request to IANA for a plan to deploy DNSSEC for .ARPA, 2 June 2009

May 2009

• The IAB publishes minutes from their February 2009 business meetings and techchat, 29 May 2009

• The IAB publishes minutes from the January 2009 business meetings, 10 May 2009

• The IAB announces that it has selected Eric Berger as the IETF appointment Trustee on the ISOC board for the 2009-2012 period. The IAB thanks the outgoing Trustee, Patrik Faltstrom, for his many years of dedicated service, 5 May 2009

April 2009

• The IAB held its annual retreat on 27-28 April in Ashburn, VA. Over this two day meeting the board reviewed several business items, and then discussed a range of architectural topics of interest to the Internet. From these discussions, the IAB will develop its work plan for the coming year. Topics considered included the IP mobility architecture, IPv4 address exhaustion and v6 transition, aircraft and IP, character encoding schemes and their impact on interoperability and user experience, IDN-TLD considerations, routing security and PKI trust anchors, application-layer intermediaries and application use of transport protocols, and the emerging "Internet of Things", 28 April 2009

March 2009

• The IAB publishes minutes from the Oct 15 and Dec 17 business meetings, 26 March 2009

• The IAB publishes minutes from multiple business meetings that took place in 2008: 16 July, 23 July, 6 August, 13 August, 20 August, 1 October, and 8 October., 9 March 2009

Feburary 2009

• The NOMCOM announces the following incoming IAB members: Marcelo Bagnulo, Vijay Gill, John Klensin, Danny McPherson, Jon Peterson, and Dave Thaler. New members will be officially seated at the San Francisco IETF Meeting (IETF 74), 18 February 2009.

November 2008

• The IAB publishes minutes from the 7 May, 21 May, 28 May, 17 September, and 24 September IAB meetings, 26 November 2008
• The IAB responds to the United Nations on the topic of Enhanced Cooperation in Internet public policy issues (pdf format), 26 November 2008
• The IAB responds to NTIA's request for input on DNSSEC deployment at the root, 18 November 2008

October 2008

• The IAB publishes minutes from the 3 September business meeting, 2 October 2008