Re: If I may inquire, what exactly does the IETF Organization stand for? Acronym aside. What is the goal? Who are you people?

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 25 July 2014 12:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: If I may inquire, what exactly does the IETF Organization stand for? Acronym aside. What is the goal? Who are you people?
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 01:18:47AM -0400,
 Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 9 lines which said:

> At the upper left of the ietf.org web page there is a Mission link:
> http://www.ietf.org/about/mission.html
> Or you could see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3935.txt

If you want to join, there is also a page for newcomers:

http://www.ietf.org/newcomers.html