Rough Guide to IETF 88: Scalability and Performance

The public policy world is full of discussions of appropriate (and inappropriate) management of bandwidth in the face of growing network usage. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) have a number of efforts underway at IETF 88 in Vancouver next week to explore and address more sophisticated ways to make use of available bandwidth, improve Internet performance, and otherwise get content to where it needs to be, efficiently.