The body which eventually became the IAB was created originally by the United States Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with the name Internet Configuration Control Board (ICCB) in … See more

The IAB's current responsibilities include:
• Architectural Oversight: The IAB provides oversight of, and occasional commentary on, aspects of the architecture for the network protocols and … See more

The Internet Standards process is an activity of the Internet Society that is organized and managed on behalf of the Internet community by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). The Internet Standards … See more

Activities of the IAB include:
Workshops
• COVID-19 Network Impacts Workshop, 2020
• Exploring Synergy between Content Aggregation and the Publisher Ecosystem Workshop 2019 See more

The IAB takes a formal stance on what constitutes proper use of the Internet in their 1989 memo, RFC 1087: “Ethics and the Internet.” They … See more

RFC 2850 establishes the structure and purpose of the IAB. The RFC specifies the following:
• IAB membership: the IAB has 13 members, 1 being the chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). These members are … See more

The RFC 8980 workshop was held in February 2021, where the IAB discussed several topics around security protocols, including:
• Email standards, … See more