IETF and Internet standards

The group contributes to the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), the open body that develops the technical standards of the Internet, and promotes the participation of the Argentine and Latin American academic community in that process.

RFC

RFC 9198 · May 2022
Advanced Unidirectional Route Assessment (AURA)
J. Alvarez-Hamelin, A. Morton, J. Fabini, C. Pignataro, R. Geib
Proposed Standard, IPPM (IP Performance Measurement) working group. Updates RFC 2330.

Defines a metric and a measurement methodology to assess the unidirectional route between a source and a destination, including the parallel subpaths introduced by multipath technologies.

Internet-Drafts

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Synchronizing Internet Clock frequency protocol (sic)
Individual Internet-Draft; latest revision -08 (November 2021), expired in May 2022.

A secure method to synchronize clocks on the Internet with frequency stability and robustness to man-in-the-middle attacks, aimed at the quality of performance measurements.

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Advanced Unidirectional Route Assessment (AURA)
IPPM working-group draft (revisions -00 to -10), published as RFC 9198. It started as the individual draft draft-amf-ippm-route.

IETF Day at JAIIO

IETF Day is the workshop of the Grupo de Trabajo de Ingeniería de Internet / Argentina (IETF Argentina) at the Argentine Computing Conference (JAIIO), organized by FIUBA, SADIO and that group, with editions since 2020. It brings Argentine and Latin American researchers into the development of Internet standards. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin is one of the chairs of the 2026 edition, together with Gustavo Mercado (UTN FRM) and Marcela Orbiscay (IANIGLA–CONICET), and co-edited the proceedings of the 2022 edition.

More: Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin’s IETF Datatracker profile and the group’s publications on IETF standards.