IAB Overview
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is a committee of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF). Its responsibilities include:
- IESG Confirmation: The IAB confirms the IETF Chair and IESG Area
Directors, from nominations provided by the IETF Nominating Committee.
- Architectural Oversight: The IAB provides oversight of, and occasional
commentary on, aspects of the architecture for the protocols and procedures
used by the Internet.
- Standards Process Oversight and Appeal: The IAB provides oversight
of the process used to create Internet Standards. The IAB serves as an appeal
board for complaints of improper execution of the standards process through
acting as an appeal body in respect of an IESG standards decision.
- RFC Series and IANA: The IAB is responsible for editorial management
and publication of the Request for Comments (RFC) document series, and for
administration of the assignment of IETF Protocol parameter values by the
IETF Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
- External Liaison: The IAB acts as representative of the interests
of the IETF in liaison relationships with other organizations concerned
with standards and other technical and organizational issues relevant to
the world-wide Internet.
- Advice to ISOC: The IAB acts as a source of advice and guidance
to the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Internet Society concerning
technical, architectural, procedural, and (where appropriate) policy matters
pertaining to the Internet and its enabling technologies.
- IRTF Chair: The IAB selects a chair of the Internet Research Task
Force (IRTF) for a renewable two year term.
Related Documents
IAB's Charter, RFC 2850.
Early history of IAB and the
IETF, up to 1990: RFC 1160.
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