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PRESS RELEASE - IETF Meeting in Berlin
sponsored by DENIC: Open Internet standards through technical excellence
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Dear Sir or Madam,

More than 1,500 technical experts are
coming together in Berlin, Germany, from 28 July until 2 August at the
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Meeting to jointly work at the further
evolution of the Internet and to develop tomorrow's protocol standards.
As the global Internet’s premier technical standards body, the IETF is
open to any interested person, and the results of its work are based on
competence and the best technical arguments. In 106 working groups experts
from 74 countries develop concepts to enhance security, speed and user-friendliness
on the Internet – be it to secure routes, to provide extensions for mobile
applications or to protect data in the cloud.

What starts as a draft working paper
is discussed in the various expert groups – either at the IETF meetings
or via mailing lists. Taking multiple iterations, the protocol or service
is then developed and brought to standard maturity. One example is the
TCP protocol which, as part of the Internet protocol family, forms an important
basis for the Internet we know today. The standards that provide the form
of the Domain Name System (DNS) developed in the IETF this way. 

Based on open and freely available standards,
DNS enables the resolution of domain names and their translation into IP
addresses, and thus easy use of the Internet. Additional security is provided
by security extensions like DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions),
which was developed in the IETF and has been implemented as a standard
by more than 100 country codes, including .de. 

Other examples for IETF's successful
standardization process are the possibility to use special characters in
domain names – such as the German letter eszett (ß) as the latest implementation
and numerous special characters of other languages – as well as a multitude
of other Internet applications. This underscores the global importance
of open standards and their creation through collective development work.

The meeting in Berlin is the 87th of
its type and the second event since 1997 to be held in Germany. Reason
enough for DENIC eG, which is organized as a not-for-profit cooperative
and thus strongly committed to the entire Internet community and the open
and participatory evolution of the Internet, to support IETF's work as
platinum sponsor of the Berlin meeting.

As the meeting in Berlin too will have
an impact on the way we will use the Internet in the future.

For further information please go to
https://www.ietf.org/meeting/87
and http://www.denic.de.


Kind regards

Stefanie Welters
Public Relations
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