IETF
acronymnetworkingevents
Stands for: Internet Engineering Task Force
The body that standardizes the internet's protocols, in the open, as RFCs.
The Internet Engineering Task Force works by 'rough consensus and running code': open working groups produce Internet-Drafts that mature into RFCs - TCP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and nearly every protocol this site's tools decode. Anyone can participate; there is no membership fee. It operates alongside IANA (registries) and the RFC Editor (publication), and its documents are the primary sources this site links by preference.
Also known as: ietf, rfc process, internet-draft