IETF | Preparing for an IETF meeting.

The IETF works on a broad range of networking technologies that provide the foundation for the Internet's growth and evolution.
While most IETF work takes place online, meetings and other events such as Hackathons provide in-person opportunities to advance work within the IETF.
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The global IETF community works together in many different ways to produce high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet.
By supporting the IETF today, you are ensuring a free and open Internet exists tomorrow.
This page provides details of the resources available to prepare for IETF meetings.
It is strongly recommended to review this information even if you have participated in a past IETF meeting using Meetecho as details may have changed.
For IETF meetings, all onsite and remote session chairs and participants will need to sign into each session in which they participate using a Web browser.
For IETF meetings an IETF Datatracker login and Meetecho will be used (by chairs and participants) to generate session blue sheets (attendance lists) and to manage a unified queue for all participants, both remote and in-person. A special version of Meetecho designed to work on mobile devices will be available for onsite participants.
For a more comprehensive overview of IETF meetings and how to get the most from them, read this Guide to IETF meetings.
Online participants will use the full Web-based Meetecho client. In-person participants are able to use a streamlined mobile-friendly version of Meetecho during sessions. A Meetecho guide for meeting participants is available and will be updated several weeks before each meeting.
Onsite participants Be sure to use Meetecho to sign in to every session you attend in-person when you are onsite. You can do this by using the QR codes available at the entrance to and in the meeting room to quickly access Meetecho for the session currently underway.
Several apps for IETF meetings have been developed by, and are maintained by, IETF participants. You may wish to download them before the IETF meeting begins.
All session chairs whether onsite or remote will use the full version of Meetecho.
A Meetecho guide for session chairs is available and will be updated several weeks before each IETF meeting.
Additional information and resources related to organizing and managing meetings are available on the IETF Chairs wiki.
As with past meetings, session chairs can schedule sessions on-demand to test set ups and arrange run throughs with presenters. This feature is available for working group and research group chairs. These test sessions do not create interim meetings.
Questions should be sent to support@ietf.org.
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