04.07.2026
IETF interviews PhD student Martine Lenders
In the IETF blog post "From Lab to RFC: A PhD Student's Journey through the IETF," our PhD student and research associate Martine answers questions about what her experience in the IETF has been like while pursuing an academic journey. Martine recently published DNS over CoAP (RFC 9953, standards track), a protocol that allows for very lightweight, still secure DNS resolution,
At the TUD Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems, we are continuously involved in Internet standardization.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), founded in 1986, is the premier standards development organization (SDO) for the Internet. The IETF makes voluntary standards that are often adopted by Internet users, network operators, and equipment vendors, and it thus helps shape the trajectory of the development of the Internet. But in no way does the IETF control, or even patrol, the Internet.
You can check her IETF profile at the datatracker.