The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force

A guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) guidelines and explanation of how IETF works. Self organized group with a mission of identifying problems and suggesting solutions to problems on the Internet; develop protocols; give recommendations to Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG); technology transfer from Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) to Internet community and provide a forum for information exchange.