IETF Meeting Held in China for the First Time
In 2010, China participated in the formulation of 9 standards, exceeding the sum of previous years.
On November 12, 2010, the 79th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting dropped its curtain in Beijing. Over 1,200 world-renowned Internet technologists, authors of Internet technologies, scholars, engineers and technicians of Internet from 52 countries and regions attended the meeting. This is the first time that IETF has been held in China.
IETF is the only international, non-governmental, and open organization for the Internet technology development and standard formulation. Since its establishment in 1986, it has been world’s most influential and authoritative technology organization in the Internet industry. IETF meetings are held 3 times each year. Technical standards proposed, discussed and approved on IETF meetings have been broadly applied in the current field of Internet. With the development of Internet and technology in China in recent years, more and more Chinese Internet technologists and technicians attend IETF meetings, making China the second largest participant following the US.
The 5-day IETF meeting was sponsored by Tsinghua University and co-sponsored by Internet Society of China (ISC) and China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). Evidence shows that these years, China has proactively participated in developing Internet technologies and standards. Especially outstanding achievements have been made in the development of Internet standards. By the end of 2010, the number of Internet standards (RFC) mainly formulated by Chinese researchers and institutions has reached 17, 9 of which were proposed in 2010. And the first authors of 25 RFC standards are Chinese. Such organizations and companies as Tsinghua University, Huawei, China Mobile, and CNNIC have participated in formulating Internet standards. Tsinghua University alone has submitted 25 RFC draft standards to IETF in total, and 5 of them have been approved by IETF.
Mr. Russ Housley, Chairman of IETF commented: “The IETF’s mission is to constantly improve the work of the Internet – as a result we seek broad participation to maintain the global relevance of our activities. As the number of Chinese participants has grown, we felt that the time was right to hold our first meeting in China.”
China’s Internet network started in 1994. With over ten years’ development, the number of Chinese Internet users has reached 420 million, making China a great power in Internet. And much progress has also been achieved in Internet technology and innovation.
Ms. Qiheng HU, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of the Internet Society of China, said: “This is the first time that an IETF meeting has been held in Beijing, China. This is also a good opportunity for China Internet community to closely exchange and communicate with those who are Internet technology initiators, innovators and important IETF RFC authors in the global Internet community. This face to face exchange will help trigger the Internet innovation in China and help us keep up with the Internet development progress of the world.”
Director of CNNIC, Wei MAO said: “Just as many individuals, organizations, and countries, CNNIC acts as a Chinese Internet infrastructure and technology development institution, which also benefits from the open principal of IETF, and trying to share the wisdom of all technical IETF experts. We are pleased to see IETF experts from many different countries around world, gathered in Beijing for the first time to exchange technical practice, and giving counsel about developing the underlying architecture of the global Internet. We are also very honored to be able to contribute to the IETF as a host. And CNNIC will continue committing ourselves to international communication of global Internet.”
On the 78th IETF conference held in the Netherlands, Professor Jianping WU from Tsinghua University received the highest honor of ISOC - the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. He is the first Chinese to win the award. Professor Wu expressed: “From a big Internet country to a powerful Internet country, the key is about breakthrough on Internet technologies and standards. It is of great importance that IETF meeting can be held in Beijing. It not only shows recognition of Internet development in China, but also demonstrates expectation for our research and development of Internet technologies. I believe that Chinese researchers will make outstanding contribution for global Internet development in terms of Internet technologies.”
International standards formulated by CNNIC
RFC3743: In April 2004, CNNIC took the lead to formulate Guidelines for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Registration and Administration for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (RFC3743). It is CNNIC’s first and China’s second international standard on Internet. The standard provides sound technical solutions for equivalent effect of simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese in IDN.
RFC4713: On October 13, 2006, CNNIC led the formulation of the Registration and Administration Recommendations for Chinese Domain Names (RFC4713). After the issuance of RFC4713, all registration and administration of Chinese domain names all over the world shall follow the standard in the implementation.
RFC5336: In September 2008, CNNIC formulated SMTP Extension for Internationalized Email Addresses (RFC5336). Not only has it become feasible for the people around the world to use email addresses with their mother tongue, but also it started the real internationalization of global protocols on Internet technology.
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