IoT Thrust Seminar | Analysing the Internet Standardisation Process
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The Internet requires interoperability between networks, systems, and applications, as well as cooperation among a growing number of stakeholders. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is critical in supporting this cooperation and interoperability by bringing together interested parties and standardizing the protocols that power the Internet, such as IPv4/6 or HTTP/s. In this talk, I will cover more than 20 years of IETF data, and analyse the participants of the IETF, the emails they exchange, and the documents they produce. I will also show how these data can be used to understand who are these Internet actors, and their interests as well as how Internet's growth and maturity has given rise to a longer and complex standardisation process where participants gain and exercise influence.
Ignacio Castro is Assistant Professor at Queen Mary University of London and Chair at the Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes proposed Research Group (RASP RG). He obtained his PhD while researching at the Institute IMDEA Networks (Madrid, Spain), and visiting UC Berkeley (California, USA). His work sits at the intersection between economics and computer systems and his interest spans from online social networks and moderation to the macroscopic evolution of the Internet. He has been an investigator on three major EPSRC grants that hold over £6 million in funding and his work appears in top tier journals and conferences including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, USENIX Security, ACM IMC, AAAI ICWSM, WWW, and IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking. He also serves in TPCs and organises top tier conferences including SIGCOMM, IMC, and CoNEXT.