African Internet industry luminary Andrew Alston has been appointed to the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).<\/p>\n
The IESG is a body that provides leadership for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in various technical matters.<\/p>\n
The IETF sets technical standards for the global Internet, with the Internet Architecture Board providing long-range technical direction for Internet development.<\/p>\n
Alston is part of an incoming group selected by the 2021\/22 IETF Nominating Committee and will begin in his new role on 21 March 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IESG is responsible for technical management of IETF activities and the Internet standards process, including final approval of specifications as Internet standards,\u201d the NomCom said in a statement<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe work of the IETF is organised into six technical areas and one administrative (general) area,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n \u201cThe IESG consists of the area directors (ADs) for each area, who are generally each appointed for two-year terms.\u201d<\/p>\n Alston is being appointed to the IESG\u2019s Routing Area.<\/p>\n In addition to being the only resident African on the IETF, Alston is also the sole representative from the network operator industry.<\/p>\n Equipment manufacturers and tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Huawei are well represented.<\/p>\n Having Alston on board to offer an African and network operator perspective is significant.<\/p>\n Speaking to MyBroadband about his nomination and selection, Alston thanked his employer, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, for supporting his appointment to the IESG.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe that Liquid supporting my appointment is both important and demonstrates their commitment to having African voices heard in such forums,\u201d said Alston.<\/p>\n The Internet Engineering Task Force has, for the first time, appointed an African still resident on the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":434058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5304,35,76610,27911,68978],"class_list":["post-434056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-andrew-alston","tag-headline","tag-internet-engineering-steering-group-iesg","tag-internet-engineering-task-force-ietf","tag-liquid-intelligent-technologies-lit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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