Talk:Internet Engineering Task Force
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[edit] Wrong link
Link is wrong: "Fred Baker" in section "List of IETF chairs" leads to another Fred Baker. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.235.169.90 (talk • contribs) 19:07, 4 April 2005.
- So fix it, it's a Wiki! (It's still wrong, I'll fix it in a bit if nobody else gets there first.) Noel (talk) 19:28, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Chair lists wrong
IETF chairs and the years they served, as listed, is out of sync with the listing on the IETF's page. Hobart 17:58, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
- The list that was there when you posted this matches the IETF's list. Maybe the (admittedly confusing) formatting on the IETF's list threw you off? Noel (talk) 19:28, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Start of the IETF
This internet-history mailing list message from Mike St Johns contains some useful info about the origin of the IETF:
- "The IETF was established as the result of an IAB meeting held just immediately before the 1st IETF meeting .. Mike Corrigan .. came in late in the day on the first day of the meeting and informed us the IAB had decided to split GADS into the INENG and the INARC ..
- I would really call that specific day the first IETF meeting. According to the IETF website, that was January 17th, 1986"
Note sure I quite agree with Mike (I'd consider the first formal IETF meeting to be the one at BRL, in April, 1986), but since the IETF site counts the January meeting as #1 I guess I've lost that one! :-) His account is correct though; I was at the January GADS meeting, and his description matches my memory of it. Noel (talk) 19:28, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
