The Applications Area

This Web tree attempts to describe the IETF Applications Area.

It contains a relatively static description of the area:

• Description of the area
• Procedures
• Apps Review Team
• LDAP Directorate
• XML Directorate
• APPS Area Working Groups (from IETF web page)
• APPS Area Mailing Lists

Utilities:

• Validation Tools
• Chris's ABNF Validator
• HTML RFCs and I-Ds
• HTML RFC Index (heuristic HTML conversion)
• Message Validator (slightly out-of-date)

Freely available utilities you can use to check XML used in your specifications:

• The IBM XML Schema Quality Checker: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xmlsqc
• The Xerces-Java parser: http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/index.html

Other stuff:

• WG Chairs training foils from the December 1996 IETF

The rest of it is an informal view of things that are of concern to the Area Directors and where a public view makes sense.

• Concerns about research on the IETF
• Questions for new UR* schemes
• Moving standards to Historic
• WWW Consortium presentation on IETF relationship
• Instructions to WG chairs on use of S/MIME in Apps specs

This Web is maintained by a former Area Director in his copious spare time (that's a joke, BTW....), so suggestions for changes and clarifications will be most welcome, but will not necessarily be acted upon immediately; suggestions that contain text to put here stand a better chance than other stuff!

For general IETF info, look at the IETF Webserver.

Other IETF stuff maintained by Harald Alvestrand (former APPS AD)