IETF | Meeting Technology

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.
The IETF is the premier Internet standards organization. It follows open and well-documented processes for setting these standards. Once published, those standards are made freely available.
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.
We use a variety of technologies to support meetings which we recommend participants are familiar with to get the most from the meetings.
All meeting participants, both onsite and remote, need to use Meetecho in order to participate in an IETF Meeting. This is used for:
Meetecho is WebRTC based and runs in any browser. There is a separate "lite" version that works on mobile browsers. The following guides are available:
The dedicated IETF Network Operations Center (NOC) team works with meeting venues before and during each meeting and hackathon to engineer and deploy a network free and unfiltered Wi-Fi in every venue that it visits and the main hotel, advertising a number of different SSIDs with different features. Please see Meeting Network Information for full details.
Wi-Fi (802.11 a/g/n/ac/ax) is provided throughout the meeting venue on 2.4, 5, and 6GHz bands with IPv4 and IPv6. Most users should choose:
SSID: ietfpassword: ietfietf
A dedicated ethernet cable is provided for the use of session chairs in each IETF meeting room.
The IETF NOC team works with IETF meeting hotels to provide guest room access to the IETF meeting network using the hotels' existing Wi-Fi networks. Onsite meeting participants can connect to this by choosing:
SSID: ietf-hotelpassword: ietfietf
IETF meeting networks have redundant, multi-gigabit connections provided by sponsors for each meeting location. See the main meeting page for each meeting's sponsor details.
Please see the IETF NOC website, updated just before each IETF meeting, for detailed information about the meeting network.
During IETF meetings, report issues with the IETF meeting network by sending email to: support@ietf.org
For some interim meetings and side meetings, we use Webex. The following guides are available:
The group chat inside Meetecho is Zulip, which is also available in dedicated desktop or mobile clients.
The IETF Zulip server (zulip.ietf.org) authenticates you using your IETF Datatracker credentials. Datatracker accounts can be created for free.
To send messages to, or view archives for, a particular stream, you must be subscribed to the stream. You can browse streams by name, which typically match the acronym for the IETF group to which it relates.
For general chat and nonspecific conversations, subscribe to the IETF Hallway stream.
Please note that all group chat message on our server are subject to the Note Well.
The IETF has a persistent online meeting space and we encourage the IETF Community to use this space to socialize or meet informally.
Please be advised that conversations in the IETF Gather are subject to the Note Well.
The space is established on the Gather.Town collaboration platform, which uses peer-to-peer WebRTC to share audio and video. Prior to joining Gather for the first time, we strongly recommend you review Gather’s documentation. Please use Chrome or Firefox as your browser (or download the Desktop app).
The persistent space can accommodate a handful of individuals at anyone time. IETF groups interested in using the space for a planned event with more participants should contact the IETF Secretariat at least a week in advance.
If you need any help with meeting technology then please send an email to support@ietf.org.