Other (not Working Group) email lists
Guidelines for these lists, including how to request a new one to be created, can be found on the Non–Working Group email list guidelines webpage.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 3gv6 | This mailing list is intended for discussions relating to the use of IPv6 in cellular networks. |
| 6band | 6lo Bootstrapping, Access for Networked Devices |
| 6gip | IP Issues in 6th Generation Mobile Network System (6gip) |
| apn | Application-aware Networking |
| arc | Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) protocol |
| architecture-discuss | open discussion forum for long/wide-range architectural issues |
| ark | Archival Resource Key |
| art | Applications and Real-Time Area Discussion |
| bundled-domain-names | Discussion of "bundled domain names" |
| ccg | IANA IPR Community Coordination Group |
| channel-binding | IANA Expert Review: Discussion of channel binding IANA registry requests and specifications |
| cfbl | Discussions mailing list about Complaint Feedback Loop Address Header |
| crypto-panel | Crypto Review Panel review coordination |
| cwp | Certificates without PKIX |
| cwt-reg-review | IANA Expert Review: CWT Registry Review |
| dlnex | Discussion of reliable and deterministic latency attributes |
| dnssec-bootstrapping | Authenticated Bootstrapping of DNSSEC Delegations |
| dcpel | Mailing list for possible diffserv control plane elements WG |
| dcrouting | Routing in the Data Center: discussions about problems, requirements and potential solutions. |
| detnet-dp-dt | DetNet WG Data Plane Design Team (inactive) |
| detnet-edp-dt | DetNet WG Enhanced Data Plane Design Team |
| dlt-networking | DLT Networking |
| dmarc-report | Archive of DMARC reports for ietf.org domain |
| dyncast | Dynamic Anycast |
| e2ee | Discussion of the definition of end-to-end encryption. |
| etosat | The EToSat list is a non-WG mailing list used to discuss performance implications of running encrypted transports such as QUIC over satellite. |
| explicit-meas | This mailing list is intended for discussions relating to Explicit Flow Measurements Techniques. |
| fdt | Mailing list for the discussion of the use of formal description techniques in IETF documents |
| fecframe-proto | Fecframe protocol design team |
| feeds | Web Feeds |
| flexip | Flexible Internet addressing and Flexible routing |
| forces-protocol | forces-protocol |
| gdpr-response-team | GDPR Response Team |
| gen-art | GEN-ART: General Area Review Team |
| gen-art-private | Private GEN-ART list |
| github-admin | Administation of IETF GitHub repositories |
| ham-ag | HAM Radio Operators Affiliate Group |
| hls-interest | Discussions about HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). |
| hotrfc | HotRFC Lightning Talk submission list |
| i-d-announce | Internet Draft Announcements only |
| iab | Internet Architecture Board (IAB) |
| id-align | Identity Alignment |
| idna-update | Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) implementation and update discussions |
| idnet | The IDNet (Intelligence-Defined Network) |
| iesg-agenda-dist | Distribution of IESG agendas |
| ietf-announce | IETF announcement list. No discussions. |
| ietfmibs | IETF MIB Discussion list |
| independent | Discussion of RFC Editor independent submissions proposal |
| irtf-announce | IRTF-Announce |
| ice-issues | Announce-only list for activity on the ICE working group's issue list |
| ideas | Discussions relating to the development, clarification, and implementation of control-plane infrastructures and functionalities in ID enabled networks. |
| ietf-community-india | List for IETF participants from India that is used to coordinate events internal to India. |
| ietf-cycling | Discussion list for finding good routes around IETF meeting venues for cycling, and for sharing cycling-related experiences with IETF participants |
| ietf-hub-boston | For IETFers in the Boston area. |
| ietf-mentoring-discuss | This mailing list is set up to discuss issues and suggestions related to the IETF mentoring program. It is open any one interested. |
| ietf-message-headers | Discussion list for header fields used in Internet messaging applications. |
| ietf-rfps | IETF RFPs |
| igmp-mld-bis | IGMPv3/MLDv2 |
| iot-onboarding | Discussion of IoT onboarding mechanisms |
| ippm-ioam-ix-dt | IPPM iOAM Immediate Export (IX) design team |
| ipr-wg | IPR-WG |
| jose-reg-review | IANA Expert Review: The JSON Web Algorithm standard (RFC 7518) establishes this email list for designated experts to discuss proposed changes, additions, and removals to the set of algorithms in the JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) registry |
| jwt-reg-review | IANA Expert Review: Expert review of proposed IANA registrations for JSON Web Token (JWT) claims. |
| l4s-discuss | Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput (L4S) |
| llc-board-ed-secretariat | LLC Board and support staff |
| lln-futures | Low power/Lossy Networks Futures |
| medup | Missing Elements for Decentralized and Usable Privacy |
| mib-doctors | MIB Doctors list |
| mailsec | Email Security Issues |
| mavs | Multiprovider End-to-end VPN Services |
| mcast-wifi | Discussions related to issues with multicast in 802.11 Wi-Fi networks & solutions/optimizations targeted at resolving these issues. |
| media-feature-tags | discussion of media feature tags |
| metaverse | Metaverse Discussion |
| mpvdapi | Multiple Provisioning Domain Architecture API design |
| msr6 | Multicast Source Routing IPv6 |
| mtgvenue | List for email discussion of the IETF meeting venue selection process. |
| mud | Discussion of Manufacturer Ussage Descriptions |
| multiformats | Discussion related to the various Multiformats data formats |
| nfvcon | NFV (Network Function Virtualization) Configuration and Modeling |
| nsis-imp | List for implementation questions for NSIS protocols |
| netconf-next-dt | NETCONF Next Design Team |
| nethistory | Matching net historical materials with institutions that may preserve them |
| netmod-ds-dt | Updated YANG Datastore Design Team Mailing list |
| netmod-ver-dt | NetMod WG YANG Model Versioning Design Team |
| netslices | This list is intended for discussion and review of network slicing at IETF. |
| network-tokens | Discussion list for network tokens |
| new-wg-docs | New (-00) Working Group Documents |
| newsclips | IETF News Clips |
| nipc | non-IP control |
| no-draft-expiry | No draft expiry |
| nsaas | *NSaaS: Network Security as a Service mailing list* |
| ops-area | OPS Area e-mail list |
| ops-dir | Ops Directorate |
| ops-nm | OPS Area NM e-mail list |
| old-nomcom-chairs | Old NomCom Chairs |
| pidloc | Issues Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AIML) networking |
| pilots-ag | IETF Pilots Affiliate Group |
| ports-team-internal | Ports Team Internal Discussion |
| qos_inband | Discussion of in-band methods for Quality-of-service signaling |
| qlog | qlog logging format |
| reap | REAP (RENEW) EAP |
| rpat | RFC Production Advisory Team - Provides operational advice to the RFC Production Center |
| rsab | RFC Series Approval Board (RSAB) |
| rdma-cc-interest | Congestion Control for Large Scale HPC/RDMA Data Centers |
| recentattendees | Recent IETF Attendees |
| restconf-next-dt | RESTCONF Next Design Team |
| rfc-markdown | rfc-markdown is a discussion list for people writing I-Ds and RFCs in Markdown and the authors of the tools used for that. |
| rfp-announce | Announcement of IETF RFPs |
| rosa | Routing on Service Addresses |
| rt-media-ng | Discussion of new architecture and protocol updates to Real-Time Media (Voice and Video) over IP |
| rtg-dt-encap-considerations | Routing Area Design Team on Encapsulation Considerations discussion list |
| rtg-dt-yang-arch | Routing Area Yang Architecture Design Team |
| rtg-mibs | Routing MIB experts |
| rtg-ooam-dt | List is used by the Routing Area Overlay OAM Design team for internal coordination and discussion |
| sat-int | Discussion of the IETF technologies for satellite networking for NTN integration for 5G and Beyond. |
| scuba-ag | IETF SCUBA Diving Affiliate Group |
| sdwan-sec | Handling IPsec configurations in large scale SD-WAN deployment with constrained resources |
| shutup | SMTP Headers Unhealthy To User Privacy |
| smart | Stopping Malware And Researching Threats |
| snmp-tlstm-reg-review | IANA Expert Review: SNMP TLSTM Registration Review |
| srcomp | Compressed SRv6 SID Design Team |
| story-telling-ag | IETF Story-Telling |
| tdd | Technology Deep Dives |
| terminology | Effective Terminology in IETF Documents |
| tools-discuss | IETF Tools Discussion |
| tools-help | Tools-help |
| transport-nbi-dt | Transport Network Controller Northbound Interface Design Team |
| tsv-art | Transport Area Review Team |
| tsv-triage | TSV Triage Team |
| tzdist-bis | Extensions to Time Zone Data Distribution Service |
| tzdist-service | IANA Expert Review: Discussion of Time Zone Distribution Service registration requests |
| uri-review | IANA Expert Review: Proposed URI Schemes |
| wax | Web Attribute Exchange |
| webauthn-reg-review | IANA Expert Review: Registration requests should be sent to the mailing list described in [draft-hodges-webauthn-registries, Section 17]. |
| witarea | Web and Internet Transport (WIT) Area |
| yang-multicast | YANG Multicast |
| abnf-discuss | General discussion about tools, activities and capabilities involving the ABNF meta-language |
| admin-discuss | Discussion list for IETF LLC administrative issues |
| agent2agent | Standardization of AI Agent Communications |
| aidc | Data Center Networking for AI Clusters |
| ainetops | The mailing list within the OPS Area will focus specifically on sharing experiences of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in network operations. |
| anrp-select | This is a private list used by the selection committee for the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP). |
| anrw-sc | ANRW workshop series steering committee |
| anrw-tpc | ANRW workshop series technical program committee |
| antitrust-policy | Discuss the need for an antitrust or competition policy for the IETF. |
| appsdir | Apps Area Review List |
| atn | Aeronautical Telecommunications Network |
| auth48archive | Archiving AUTH48 exchanges between the RFC Production Center, the authors, and other related parties |
| cdni-footprint | CDNI Footprint and Capabilities Advertisement |
| codesprints | List for coordinating (and following up on) codesprint activities |
| collation | IANA Expert Review: Collation registration and discussion (seeRFC 4790) |
| companions | IETF Meeting Companions List |
| core-parameters | IANA Expert Review: Expert review of CoAP parameters. |
| crawl-payment | Discussion of requirements, use cases, architectural issues, and proposals for Web crawler payment protocols. |
| dconn | Domain Connect is a protocol that makes it easy for a user to configure DNS for a domain running at a DNS provider to work with a Service running at an independent Service Provider. |
| dir-coord | This is an e-mail alias for the organisers of IETF directorates. |
| diversity | Diversity open mailing list |
| dmsc | Discussion of Distributed Micro Service Communication |
| dns-rrtype-applications | IANA Expert Review: List to send new DNS RRtype template applications |
| dnsdir | DNS Directorate |
| dnslb | DNS-based Load Balancing |
| dnssec-multi-signer | Multi-Signer DNSSEC Coordination |
| dtn-interest | The Delay-Tolerant Networking Research Group (DTNRG) - Announce. |
| ediint | Discussions related to modernizingRFC 4130, which defines the AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) messaging standard |
| enterprise | Discussions about enterprise networking specific scenarios and deployment problems |
| eodir | Education & Outreach Directorate |
| experiment-guidance | This list exists for discussion of what guidance to give the authors of Internet-Drafts containing protocol specifications intended for publication as Experimental RFCs. |
| fantel | Fast Notification for Traffic Engineering and Load Balancing |
| hackathon | Discussion regarding past, present, and future IETF hackathons. |
| hiaps | Host Identification, Address and Prefix Sharing in Wi-Fi Access (hiaps) |
| homesec-dt | 'Advanced' Home Gateway Security Design Team List |
| hp-wan | High Performance Wide Area Networks |
| i2icf | Interface to In-Network Computing Functions |
| iab-stream | Target for IAB Stream emails |
| iaoc-rps | Remote Participation Services Subcommittee mailing list |
| icalendar | iCalendar |
| ietf | IETF-Discussion. This is the most general IETF mailing list, intended for discussion of technical, procedural, operational, and other topics for which no dedicated mailing lists exist. |
| ietf-822 | Discussion of issues related to Internet Message Format [RFC 822,RFC 2822,RFC 5322] |
| ietf-climbers-ag | Affiliate group: Discussion and coordination of all types of climbing: bouldering, top rope, lead, ice climbing, indoors or outdoors, free or aid. |
| ietf-nomcom | Discussions of possible revisions to the NomCom process |
| ietf-privacy | Internet Privacy Discussion List |
| ietf-runners | A list for IETF runners. |
| ietf-sailors | Discussion list to plan sailing events collocated with IETF meetings. |
| ietf-smtp | Discussion of issues related to Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) [RFC 821,RFC 2821,RFC 5321] |
| ietf-sow | SOW Feedback List |
| imap5 | Discussion on drastically slimming-down IMAP. |
| ipr-announce | For keeping updated on new IETF IPR disclosures |
| irsg | This is the IRSG private list. It consists of the IRTF Chair, the IAB Chair, IRTF Research Group Chairs, and IRSG At-Large members. |
| json-structure | Discussion of the JSON Structure, a data structure definition language for JSON. |
| last-call | IETF Last Calls |
| legal | To bring legal matters to the attention of the IETF |
| link-relations | Discussion of registration requests for link relation types |
| loi-requests | Letters of Invite Requestors |
| mcast4ai | This list will be used to discuss multicast use cases, requirements and potential solutions in the use of LLMs (Large Language Models) Mixture of Experts (MoE). |
| mentoring-coordinators | IETF Mentoring Coordinators |
| middisc | Discussions on TCP option for middlebox discovery. |
| mif-arch-dt | MIF Architecture Design Team mailing list |
| mpls-tp-manage | IETF and ITU-T management of the MPLS-TP project |
| nasr | Network Attestation for Secure Routing |
| neotec | Operations of Networks for Telecom Cloud |
| new-work | Early exchange of information about new work in SDOs |
| nvo3-dt-encap | Private mailing list for internal NVO3 Encapsulation Design Team discussions |
| oauth-ext-review | IANA Expert Review: Review of proposed IANA registrations for OAuth. |
| ocm | Open Cloud Mesh is a server federation protocol that is used to notify a Receiving Party that they have been granted access to some Resource, such as a file or an application. |
| onions | Operationalizing Network & service abstractIONS - This list is intended to discuss operational considerations related to the network and service abstractions in the IETF. |
| pdap | Personal Digital Agent Protocol |
| plants | Discussion of use cases, requirements, and proposed solutions for mitigating the size of post-quantum signatures in PKIs that use Certificate Transparency (RFC 6962 andRFC 9162), in both individual certificates and logs |
| pm-dir | Performance Metrics Directorate Discussion list |
| pop3ext | Discussion of extensions and updates to Post Office Protocol (POP3) |
| pq-dnssec | Discussion of post-quantum DNSSEC research |
| privacy-convey | A File Format to Aid in Consumer Privacy Enforcement, Research, and Tools |
| ptth | Discusses situations where the transport client/server roles and the HTTP client/server roles are reversed; the transport client is the HTTP server and vice versa. |
| quic-issues | Notification list for GitHub issues related to the QUIC WG |
| recipe | RECIPE (Reducing Energy Consumption with Internet Protocols Exploration) |
| rfc-dist | RFC Announcements |
| rfc-interest | A list for discussion of the RFC series and RFC Editor functions. |
| routing-discussion | Routing Area General Discussion list |
| rtg-open-source | Discussion and collaboration for Open Source efforts related to the Routing Area |
| sbm | Source Buffer Management: In the past decade there has been growing awareness about the harmful effects of bufferbloat in the network, and there has been good work on developments like L4S to address that problem. |
| secdir | Security Area Directorate |
| sipapis | Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) discussion list. |
| skex | Symmetric Key Exchange |
| smartobjectdir | Smart Object Directorate |
| sop | Service Orchestration and Desciption for Cloud Services |
| ssh-reg-review | IANA Expert Review: Secure Shell Registration Review |
| systers | List for organising BoFs and other events related to the participation of women in the IETF standards process. |
| tae | Transport Architecture Evolution |
| tao-discuss | Discussion of the Tao of the IETF |
| tcpprague | To coordinate implementation and standardisation of TCP Prague across platforms. TCP Prague will be an evolution of DCTCP designed to live alongside other TCP variants and derivatives. |
| tlp-interest | Discussion of proposed revisions to the Trust Legal Provisions |
| tls-reg-review | IANA Expert Review: TLS REVIEW |
| vmeet | IETF remote participation meeting services discussion |
| vpn4dc | Discussion of requirements and solutions for establishing end-to-end IP connectivity through tVPNs for data center and cloud services |
| web-bot-auth | Discussion of use cases, requirements, and proposed solutions for authenticating non-human users ("bots") to Web sites intended for humans ("normal" Web sites). This is a follow-on from a side meeting at IETF 122. |
| webfinger | Discussion of the Webfinger protocol proposal in the Applications Area |
| wellknown-uri-review | IANA Expert Review: Well-Known URI review list |
| xml2rfc | XML2RFC discussion list |
| yang-doctors | Email list of the yang-doctors directorate |
| yang-sid-logistics | Communication facilitating the logistics of handling YANG SIDs (RFC 9595) in IANA registration and RFC Production Center processes |