Contributing 101
Demystifying contribution to the IETF in 6 days
Week to-do list
- day #1: what is the IETF?
- day #2: starting with a Working Group
- day #3: knowing the WG’s history
- day #4: tools within the IETF
- day #5: writing your very first draft
- day #6: adjustments
What is the anyways ?
- W3C-like for layers 3, 4 and 7 from OSI model
- Standardisation discussions (industry-compatible knowledge)
- Standardisation production (RFCs)
- free as in NO FEE - no membership
day #1
BGP
...
working groups
anyone can write a draft
iterated over the W.G.’s mailing list
meetups at IETF gathering
day #2
day #3
Retracing the mail history
maildir or mbox
allows for local processing (i.e: regex)
day #4
Tools within the IETF
Just in case you face it, https://tools.ietf.org/ :
- Prepare documents
- Search, show and print documents
- Follow an IETF meeting
- Extract info from documents
- Verify compliance
- Share and communicate (wikis)
day #5
Writing your very first draft
Don’t.
Do cooperate with experienced
people on mailing lists
Do correct existing drafts
Do discuss references
day #6
Today!
Transparent process, community recognition
Advanced practices of a field, yet future-proof
Overhead due to the standardisation itself
contributing to mailing lists 101
By Pierre-Antoine Rault
contributing to mailing lists 101
talk in IETF discussions, from newbie to confident in 6 days
