Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large, open international community of network designers, operators, vendors and researchers whose purpose is to coordinate the operation, management and evolution of the Internet and to resolve short- and mid-range protocol and architectural issues.

Description
The IETF is a major source of proposals for protocol standards which are submitted to its (IAB) committee for final approval. The IETF meets three times a year and extensive minutes are included in the IETF proceedings.

The IETF Secretariat, formerly run by The (CNRI) with funding from the U.S. government, maintains an index of s, whereas RFCs are maintained by The Internet Architecture Board.