Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force, IETF, is a group that is more open than the W3C in the sense that it has no specific group of members or dues as the W3C does. It consists of an international community of people contributing to the continued maintenance of the Internet and its associated standards. Standards are published as RFCs (Request for Comments), and these standards are proposed as Internet Drafts and go through a series of revisions based on community feedback.
The RFCs themselves mature over time. However, in order to allow for consistency, once an Internet Draft is proposed as an RFC, it is never revised. If changes to the RFC are deemed necessary, and entirely new RFC is proposed that obsoletes ...
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