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The content of IETF working group was merged into Internet Engineering Task Force on 2011-03-28. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

The content of GADS Task Force was merged into Internet Engineering Task Force on 2016-11-27. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

The content of Internet Engineering Steering Group was merged into Internet Engineering Task Force on 15 April 2020. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

On 1 November 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to IETF. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Internet Engineering Steering Group is a functional unit of the Internet Engineering Task Force. There is no strong indication of independent notability and can be merged here without causing an WP:UNDUE issue or making this article unmanageable. ~Kvng (talk) 19:20, 30 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

  Y Merge completed Klbrain (talk) 13:32, 15 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

 Done - This Talk page was long and the items from 2005-2016 had all been resolved. Follow the H:ARC process, those older items can now be found on Talk:Internet_Engineering_Task_Force/Archive_1 - Dyork (talk) 20:52, 16 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

I have set up automatic archiving so this doesn't happen again. ~Kvng (talk) 13:26, 19 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

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@Community Tech bot 2600:6C5D:5100:96B:14DE:10F2:E8F6:8168 (talk) 01:24, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

The Birds of a feather (computing) page redirects to this page (the Organisation chapter), but there is no explanation whatsoever about the reason and relationship between the two. Ericzolf (talk) 08:14, 5 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Birds of a feather (computing) was formerly an article but it was boldly redirected here by NinjaRobotPirate and affirmed by Onel5969. If it does not create an WP:UNDUE issue, we can still merge the content in the redirect's history into this article. ~Kvng (talk) 14:20, 8 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I've been reading about this on the blog of "D. J. Bernstein", the creator of qmail and also an important member of IETF. He explains that some employees of NSA are trying to publish against many objections weaken security standards while also censoring dissent. - Eloyesp (talk) 13:54, 26 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

This is wikipedia, so I take the lead and added something about this, feel free to edit or complement. Eloyesp (talk) 03:23, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply