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The Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) can be described "as a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet." Equivalently, " IETF is a loosely self-organized group of people who contribute to the engineering and evolution of Internet technologies. It is the principal body engaged in the development of new Internet standard specifications. The IETF is unusual in that it exists as a collection of happenings, but is not a corporation and has no board of directors, no members, and no dues."

IETF is driven by individuals, not companies or governments. Although IETF produces standards (and non-standards documents), it's not called a standards body. IETF has been successful due to the openness in its processes.

The Internet is complex: diversity of applications, variety of protocols, multiple vendors, different implementations, massive scale of deployment, worldwide reach across geographies, and so on. If two endpoints on the Internet have to communicate and be understood, they need to talk the same language. IETF fulfils the role of standardizing architecture and protocols for the Internet. This enables things to work together despite the diversity of vendors, implementations and protocols.

The goal of IETF is to make the Internet work better. It does this by making relevant protocol standards, best current practices and informational documents.

  • Open process: All activities of IETF are open for public participation. All published documents are openly accessible.
  • Technical competence: Quality is ensured by staying within domains where members have technical competence.
  • Volunteer core: Work is done on voluntary basis by those who believe in IETF 's mission.
  • Protocol ownership: When IETF takes ownership of a protocol it also becomes responsible for it.
  • Open standards: Anyone can join mailing lists, Working Groups and attend meetings. Anyone can create and upload a new document. Anyone can suggest modifications to proposals. The process of standardization is open to all without fees or formal membership.
  • Open documents: All documents are easily and freely accessible on the Internet.
  • Open source: Working implementations and proven interoperability are important before a proposal becomes a standard. Such implementations are open sourced.

While other organizations or standards bodies may be open in terms of publication and ownership, IETF adopts the most open approach that includes development and participation.

Comparison of OSI model and Internet TCP/IP model. Source: Khabat 2015.

When Open Systems Interconnection ( OSI ) standards were all in rage in the mid-1980s, the Internet and its protocols were part of a government-funded research project. The Internet of the 1980s did not carry much commercial or for-profit traffic. Yet by early 1990s, the Internet model, not the OSI model, became the de facto architecture for the Internet. This, and the Internet's continued success, can be attributed to the open working model and organization of IETF .

Besides openness, IETF takes a bottom-up approach. In other words, people get together to create Working Groups. Neither IAB or IESG create WG s on their own. IETF does not require unanimity. Typically a consensus is achieved if 80-90% of people agree to a proposal. There's no voting but a show of hands may be used. Working implementations that interoperate prove that the proposal works in practice. This forces WG s to simplify protocols and even take out stuff that doesn't work.

Dr. David C. Clark of MIT summed it up nicely,

We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.

All IETF are publicly available on the Internet. They can be downloaded free of cost by anyone. IETF gets a limited copyright to publish and derive from the documents. Once published on IETF , authors cannot withdraw the documents at a later point. All other rights are with authors.

IETF organizational structure. Source: White 2015.

  • Internet Society (ISOC) : IETF by itself is not a legal entity. It can be seen as an organized activity of the Internet Society (ISOC). ISOC provides the legal umbrella for IETF and funds its activities.
  • Internet Research Task Force ( IRTF ) : While IETF focuses on near term objectives and making standards, its sister organization IRTF looks at longer term research. It's activities are managed by the Internet Research Steering Group ( IRSG ).
  • Internet Architecture Board ( IAB ) : IETF and IRTF are overseen by the IAB . IAB focuses on architectural issues and procedural issues. It also manages all external relations. IAB was previously called the Internet Activities Board. It is chartered by ISOC.
  • Independent Submissions Editorial Board ( ISEB ) : Led by the Independent Submissions Editor ( ISE ), this board reviews and publishes documents relevant to the Internet but outside the scope of IETF / IRTF / IAB .
  • Internet Engineering Steering Group ( IESG ) : IESG manages IETF activities and processes. It approves the standards produced by IETF . IAB advises IESG .
  • Nominating Committee ( NomCom ) : NomCom nominates suitable candidates to serve on IESG and IAB .

IETF works with other standards bodies because its work often builds upon or interfaces with other standards. For example, IETF cooperates with IANA (Internet numbers), IEEE (Ethernet), ETSI (Cellular Radio), ITU-T (PHY layer standards), ISO/ IEC (UTF-16, mime types), W3C ( HTML ), and more.

IETF has no formal membership. Anyone who joins a mailing list or attends an IETF meeting can be called a member.

Broadly, documents can be either Internet-Drafts ( I-D s) or RFC s. Internet-Drafts are temporary documents that are valid for six months. Because of their temporary nature, they are not to be cited. Anyone can start such a draft even without a Working Group. They have no formal status until they become adopted by a WG or becomes an RFC .

RFC originally stood for Request for Comments but today (March 2017) a published RFC cannot be modified. An RFC could be supplemented by errata. In fact, Internet-Drafts are more in the spirit of documents requesting comments.

  • Non-standards documents: Informational, Historic, Experimental.
  • Standards documents: Proposed Standard or Internet Standard. An intermediate Draft Standard has been discontinued since 2011.
  • Best Current Practices

IETF work happens within Working Groups ( WG s) that are part of a topical Area. As of March 2017, there were 7 Areas and 100+ WG s. Each Area has a couple of Area Directors ( AD s). Each WG will have its set of deliverables clearly defined plus any liaison with other WG s. Except for the annual meetings, WG s do all their work via mailing lists. Documents produced by WG s are reviewed by IESG . RFC Editor publishes the final document.

Internet-Drafts can become Proposed Standard RFC s, where they will remain for at least six months. Interoperatiblity of multiple implementations must be proven at this stage. A last call for comments is put out. Finally, it becomes an Internet Standard RFC . RFC s superseded by newer updates become Historic RFC s. Experimental RFC s are used for exploring new technology including feasibility studies. The complete process is documented as RFC 2026, BCP 9.

Funding of IETF 2008-2016. Source: IETF Endowment 2016.

From the time of its inception till 1997, IETF was funded by the US government, notably ARPA , NSF , NASA and DOE. From 1998, ISOC is the main funding body for IETF . However, ISOC did fund IETF prior to this. For example, US$225K was given in 1993. Since March 1991, IETF also charges meeting fees for attendees. These are used to cover meeting expenses plus secretariat expenses.

As of 2016, IETF operated on an annual budget of US$6million, of which about US$2million comes from ISOC In July 2016, some companies and organizations donated US$3million towards a fund called IETF Endowment. This fund's purpose is to "provide long-term stability and increased diversity for funding IETF activities and operations."

Volunteers themselves may be self-funded or sponsored by either their employers or other sponsors.

First meeting of IETF is held with attendees from agencies funded by the US government. ARPANET's Network Working Group may be regarded as its precursor.

Fourth meeting of IETF is held for which the public is invited to attend. Since then, all meetings are open to the public.

Concept of Working Groups ( WG s) is introduced.

From 1991, meetings are held thrice a year. Previously, meetings were quarterly events.

The relationship and responsibilities between IAB and IETF come under scrutiny and clarification.

ISOC is formed. ISOC is an international, membership-based non-profit organization. It also provides the legal umbrella for IETF , which IETF accepted in 1996.

IETF moves from being a US government-funded activity to one funded by Internet Society (ISOC).

US government stops direct funding to IETF . From 1998, ISOC becomes the main funding channel for IETF .

IETF Trust is established to manage copyrights.

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  • IETF. 2016b. "IETF Newcomers Presentation." YouTube. February 1. Accessed 2017-03-28.

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What is IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)?

IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) is an international community of networking engineers, network administrators, researchers, and vendors whose goal is to ensure the smooth operation and evolution of the Internet. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) receives its charter from the Internet Society (ISOC), and its daily operations are overseen by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

The work of the IETF is performed by a number of working groups who are dedicated to such aspects of the Internet as routing, operations and management, transport, security, applications, and user services. These working groups interact primarily through mailing lists and are managed by area directors who belong to the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).

Some working groups develop extensions and newer versions of familiar protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ( LDAP ), Network News Transfer Protocol ( NNTP ), Point-to-Point Protocol ( PPP ), and Simple Network Management Protocol ( SNMP ). Others develop new protocols such as the Common Indexing Protocol, Internet Open Trading Protocol, and the Internet Printing Protocol.

The working groups produce documents called Internet Drafts, which have a life span of six months, after which they must be deleted, updated, or established as a Request for Comments (RFC) document.

What IETF do?

The details of IETF operations have changed considerably as the organization has grown, but the basic mechanism remains publication of proposed specifications, development based on the proposals, review and independent testing by participants, and republication as a revised proposal, a draft proposal, or eventually as an Internet Standard. IETF standards are developed in an open, all-inclusive process in which any interested individual can participate. All IETF documents are freely available over the Internet and can be reproduced at will. Multiple, working, useful, interoperable implementations are the chief requirement before an IETF proposed specification can become a standard.[3] Most specifications are focused on single protocols rather than tightly interlocked systems. This has allowed the protocols to be used in many different systems, and its standards are routinely re-used by bodies which create full-fledged architectures (e.g. 3GPP IMS).

Because it relies on volunteers and uses “rough consensus and running code” as its touchstone, results can be slow whenever the number of volunteers is either too small to make progress, or so large as to make consensus difficult, or when volunteers lack the necessary expertise. For protocols like SMTP, which is used to transport e-mail for a user community in the many hundreds of millions, there is also considerable resistance to any change that is not fully backward compatible, except for IPv6. Work within the IETF on ways to improve the speed of the standards-making process is ongoing but, because the number of volunteers with opinions on it is very great, consensus on improvements has been slow to develop.

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Internet Safety Technical Task Force

The Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF) is a group of Internet businesses, non-profit organizations, academics, and technology companies that have joined together to identify effective tools and technologies to create a safer environment on the Internet for youth. It was created in February 2008 in accordance with the Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Safety announced by the Attorneys General Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking and MySpace in January 2008. The scope of the ISTTF’s inquiry is to consider those technologies that industry and end users can utilize to keep children safe on the Internet, with the bulk of the Task Force's attention concentrated on issues concerning contact: preventing harmful contact with adults, preventing harmful contact with other minors (including cyber bullying and sexual predation), and identity theft. As time allows, we will also address two content areas: preventing access to inappropriate content and preventing illegal content (such as child pornography). The solutions to be considered will include a broad range of technology tools and services. The Task Force recognizes also the importance of other solutions -– such as social norms, law, policy, and market factors –- and will situate technology-based solutions within the context of these other types of solutions. The Task Force submitted its Final Report to the Attorneys General in December, 2008.

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The Internet protocols discussed above are defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force , or IETF (under the aegis of the Internet Architecture Board , or IAB, in turn under the aegis of the Internet Society , ISOC). The IETF publishes “Request For Comment” or RFC documents that contain all the formal Internet standards; these are available at http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html (note that, by the time a document appears here, the actual comment-requesting period is generally long since closed). The five-layer model is closely associated with the IETF, though is not an official standard.

RFC standards sometimes allow modest flexibility. With this in mind, RFC 2119 [ https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119.html] declares official understandings for the words MUST and SHOULD. A feature labeled with MUST is “an absolute requirement for the specification”, while the term SHOULD is used when

there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

The original ARPANET network was developed by the US government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA; it went online in 1969. The National Science Foundation began NSFNet in 1986; this largely replaced ARPANET. In 1991, operation of the NSFNet backbone was turned over to ANSNet, a private corporation. The ISOC was founded in 1992 as the NSF continued to retreat from the networking business.

Postel’s aphorism has come in for criticism in recent years, especially with regard to cryptographic protocols, for which lax enforcement can lead to security vulnerabilities. To be fair, however, Postel wrote this in an era when protocol specifications sometimes failed to fully spell out the rules in every possible situation; today’s cryptographic protocols are generally much more complete. One way to read Postel’s rule is that protocol implementations should be as strict as necessary, but no stricter .

There is a persistent – though false – notion that the distributed-routing architecture of IP was due to a US Department of Defense mandate that the original ARPAnet be able to survive a nuclear attack. In fact, the developers of IP seemed unconcerned with this. However, Paul Baran did write, in his 1962 paper outlining the concept of packet switching, that

If [the number of stations] is made sufficiently large, it can be shown that highly survivable system structures can be built – even in the thermonuclear era.

In 1977 the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO , founded the Open Systems Interconnection project, or OSI , a process for creation of new network standards. OSI represented an attempt at the creation of networking standards independent of any individual government.

The OSI project is today perhaps best known for its seven-layer networking model: between Transport and Application were inserted the Session and Presentation layers. The Session layer was to handle “sessions” between applications (including the graceful closing of Transport-layer connections, something included in TCP, and the re-establishment of “broken” Transport-layer connections, which TCP could sorely use), and the Presentation layer was to handle things like defining universal data formats ( eg for binary numeric data, or for non-ASCII character sets), and eventually came to include compression and encryption as well.

Data presentation and session management are important concepts, but in many cases it has not proved necessary, or even particularly useful, to make them into true layers, in the sense that a layer communicates directly only with the layers adjacent to it. What often happens is that the Application layer manages its own Transport connections, and is responsible for reading and writing data directly from and to the Transport layer. The application then uses conventional libraries for Presentation actions such as encryption, compression and format translation, and for Session actions such as handling broken Transport connections and multiplexing streams of data over a single Transport connection. Version 2 of the HTTP protocol, for example, contains a subprotocol for managing multiple streams; this is generally regarded as part of the Application layer.

However, the SSL/TLS transport-encryption service, 22.10.2 TLS , can be viewed as an example of a true Presentation layer. Applications generally read and write data directly to the SSL/TLS endpoint, which in turn mostly encapsulates the underlying TCP connection. The encapsulation is incomplete, though, in that SSL/TLS applications generally are responsible for creating their own Transport-layer (TCP) connections; see 22.10.3 A TLS Programming Example and the note at the end of 22.10.3.2 TLSserver .

OSI has its own version of IP and TCP. The IP equivalent is CLNP , the ConnectionLess Network Protocol, although OSI also defines a connection- oriented protocol CMNS. The TCP equivalent is TP4; OSI also defines TP0 through TP3 but those are for connection-oriented networks.

It seems clear that the primary reasons the OSI protocols failed in the marketplace were their ponderous bureaucracy for protocol management, their principle that protocols be completed before implementation began, and their insistence on rigid adherence to the specifications to the point of non-interoperability; indeed, Postel’s aphorism above may have been intended as a response to this last point. In contrast, the IETF had (and still has) a “two working implementations” rule for a protocol to become a “Draft Standard”. From RFC 2026 [ https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2026.html] :

A specification from which at least two independent and interoperable implementations from different code bases have been developed, and for which sufficient successful operational experience has been obtained, may be elevated to the “Draft Standard” level. [emphasis added]

This rule has often facilitated the discovery of protocol design weaknesses early enough that the problems could be fixed. The OSI approach is a striking failure for the “waterfall” design model, when competing with the IETF’s cyclic “prototyping” model. However, it is worth noting that the IETF has similarly been unable to keep up with rapid changes in html, particularly at the browser end; the OSI mistakes were mostly evident only in retrospect.

Trying to fit protocols into specific layers is often both futile and irrelevant. By one perspective, the Real-Time Protocol RTP lives at the Transport layer, but just above the UDP layer; others have put RTP into the Application layer. Parts of the RTP protocol resemble the Session and Presentation layers. A key component of the IP protocol is the set of various router-update protocols; some of these freely use higher-level layers. Similarly, tunneling might be considered to be a Link-layer protocol, but tunnels are often created and maintained at the Application layer.

A sometimes-more-successful approach to understanding “layers” is to view them instead as parts of a protocol graph . Thus, in the following diagram we have two protocol sublayers within the transport layer (UDP and RTP), and one protocol (ARP) not easily assigned to a layer.

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Man arrested for having and sharing child porn in Fowler

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FOWLER, Calif. (FOX26) — A 34-year-old man was arrested on Thursday after detectives found evidence that he was in possession and distribution of child pornography.

The Central California Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force received a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding the uploads of Child Sexual Abuse Material.

Detectives began an investigation and identified the suspect as 34-year-old Gilbert Felix Lopez of Fowler.

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Members of the task force, along with Homeland Security Investigations, and the Fowler Police Department served a search warrant at the 500 block of South 7th Street in Fowler.

During the search, detectives located Child Sexual Abuse Material and placed Lopez under arrest.

During the interview, Lopez admitted to having and distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material.

He was booked into the Fresno County Jail on felony charges of having and distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material.

His bail was set at $60,000 and he has since posted bond and been released.

If you or someone you know has been a victim of CSAM, you may submit a CyberTip at missingkids.com home or make a report with your local law enforcement office.

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FACT SHEET: Disruptive Technology Strike Force Efforts in First Year to Prevent Sensitive Technology from Being Acquired by Authoritarian Regimes and Hostile Nation-States

One year ago, on February 16, 2023, the Departments of Justice and Commerce, alongside their partners at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations, launched the Disruptive Technology Strike Force to fiercely protect advanced technology from being unlawfully acquired by foreign adversaries.  Together, the agencies that comprise the Strike Force have taken an all-tools approach to aggressively pursue enforcement actions against illegal procurement networks and prevent nation-state actors from illicitly acquiring our most sensitive technology.

In the twelve months since its formation, the Strike Force has successfully:

Charged 14 cases involving alleged sanctions and export control violations, smuggling conspiracies, and other offenses related to the unlawful transfer of sensitive information, goods, and military-grade technology to Russia, China, or Iran. 

  • Seven cases charged defendants with sending or attempting to send semiconductors, microelectronics, or other technologies to Russia in violation of U.S. law.
  • In January 2024, Brooklyn- and Los Angeles-based businessman Ilya Kahn was arrested for allegedly running a years-long scheme to unlawfully export hundreds of thousands of semiconductors to a sanctioned Russian business, using networks of businesses in the China and other transshipment points to evade export controls.
  • In October 2023, Brooklyn-based Salimdzhon Nasriddinov, a dual Russian and Tajik national, and Canadian nationals Nikolay Goltsev and Kristina Puzyreva were arrested for running a scheme to source, purchase, and ship millions of dollars’ worth of dual-use electronics from U.S. manufacturers to sanctioned end-users in Russia, including components used in guided missile systems and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
  • In October 2023, Brooklyn resident Nikolay Grigorev was arrested and Russian nationals Nikita Arkhipov and Artem Oloviannikov were charged with running a scheme to procure dual-use electronic components, including semiconductors, for companies affiliated with the Russian military.
  • In September 2023, Russian citizen Maxim Marchenko was charged with using shell companies in Hong Kong to smuggle large quantities of microelectronics with military applications to end users in Russia.
  • In August 2023, dual Russian-German citizen Arthur Petrov was arrested in Cyprus for his involvement in a scheme to procure U.S.-sourced microelectronics on behalf of a Russia-based supplier of critical electronic components for manufacturers supplying weaponry and other equipment to the Russian military.
  • In May 2023, Greek national Nikolaos Bogonikolos was arrested for overseeing a years-long operation to smuggle into Russia U.S.-origin military and dual-use technology, including sensitive components used in quantum cryptography and nuclear weapons testing.
  • In May 2023, Russian nationals Oleg Sergeyevich Patsulya and Vasilii Sergeyevich were arrested for conspiring to violate export control laws and commit money laundering to obtain airplane technology for Russian airlines.

These cases were brought in partnership with Task Force KleptoCapture, an interagency law enforcement effort dedicated to enforcing the sweeping sanctions, export restrictions, and economic countermeasures that the United States, along with its allies and partners, has imposed in response to Russia’s unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine.

In May 2023, Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen announced the first five cases following the establishment of the Disruptive Technology Strike Force. Joining him are Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement Matthew Axelrod of the Commerce Department, five U.S. Attorneys, and representatives from FBI and Homeland Security Investigations.

Three cases charged former employees of U.S. companies with stealing confidential and proprietary information related to sensitive technology and attempting to take such information to China, and one case charged a defendant with seeking to obtain technology from U.S. manufacturers on behalf of Chinese end users.

In February 2024, California resident Chenguang Gong was arrested for transferring more than 3,600 files containing proprietary information from his employer, including files with blueprints for sophisticated missile-detection technology. According to the complaint, Gong sought funding from the People’s Republic of China (PRC)-administered “Talent Programs,” which recruit individuals overseas with expertise sought after by the PRC, to develop similar technology.

In May 2023, Liming Li of California was arrested for his alleged theft of sensitive technology related to advanced manufacturing software programs from his Southern-California-based employers and using that information to market his own competing company to businesses in China.

In May 2023, California man and former Apple employee Weibao Wang was charged in connection with a scheme to steal Apple source code and other proprietary information related to autonomous systems. Allegedly, he left Apple to work as an engineer for a U.S.-based subsidiary of a China-based company to work on the development of self-driving cars, and, following a search of his residence, Wang left the country for China.

In December 2023, Belgian national Hans Maria De Geetere was charged and arrested in Belgium for crimes related to a years-long scheme to export accelerometers used in aerospace and military systems from the United States to end users in China.

Three cases charged individuals with seeking to procure sensitive U.S. technology on behalf of the government of Iran or Iranian end users .

In February 2024, Iranian national Abolfazi Bazzazi and his son Mohammad Resa Bazzazi were charged with violating U.S. sanctions by procuring for the Government of Iran and other Iranian ends users goods and technology from U.S. companies that supply the military, aerospace, and firefighting industries.

In January 2023, four Chinese nationals, Baoxia Liu, You Wa Yung, Yongxin Li, and Yanlai Zhong, were charged with smuggling U.S.-origin items used in the production of UAVs and ballistic missile systems through Chinese front companies to Iranian entities with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Defense.

In May 2023, Chinese national Xiangjiang Qiao was charged with multiple offenses related to a scheme to use a sanctioned Chinese company to provide high-tech materials used in the production of weapons of mass destruction to Iran, in exchange for payments made through the U.S. financial system.

Secured the guilty plea of a defendant charged for her role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to send electronic components used in UAVs and guided missile systems and other weapons to sanctioned entities in Russia.

In February 2024, Canadian national Kristina Puzyreva, one of three defendants charged in the case, pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy as part of a sophisticated sanctions and export control scheme involving two Brooklyn-based companies.

Issued Temporary Denial Orders against 29 entities, including airlines, freight forwarders, defense companies, and others to cut off their access to controlled U.S. items.

Contributed to numerous parties being placed on Commerce’s Entity List and Treasury’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List.

Forged international partnerships committed to preventing critical technology from being siphoned off by foreign adversaries.

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen and Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement Matthew Axelrod traveled to Kyiv in November 2023, following prior visits by the Attorney General to Ukraine, to reaffirm the Strike Force’s close partnership with the Ukrainian Prosecutor General and commitment to curbing the illegal flow of advanced technology to Russia.

Following the Camp David Leaders’ Summit with President Biden and the leaders of Japan and Korea, DOJ and Commerce took steps to establish a Disruptive Technology Protection Network with South Korea and Japan to expand collaboration on technology protection measures, including expanding information-sharing and the exchange of best practices across the three countries’ enforcement agencies.

As part of the Munich Security Conference, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen and Assistant Secretary Matthew Axelrod participated in a panel discussion on safeguarding disruptive technology in a new era of economic statecraft.

During a speech in the United Kingdom, where she announced the creation of the Strike Force in February 2023, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco delivered remarks about the national security risks posed by artificial intelligence and why it is a top enforcement priority for the Strike Force.

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen delivered remarks and participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by the American Academy at the U.S. embassy in Berlin, Germany.  Throughout the visit, AAG Olsen reaffirmed the Department’s close partnership with foreign counterparts to stop the flow of sensitive technology to foreign adversaries.

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement Matthew Axelrod delivered remarks on international partnerships, with a focus on the Strike Force, at the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control-Bureau of Industry and Security Export Control Forum in Frankfurt, Germany.

Assistant Attorney General Olsen and Assistant Secretary Axelrod view weapons recovered from the front lines in Ukraine, including ballistic missiles, air-guided missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles, during their visit to Kyiv in November 2023.

Fostered partnerships with the private sector, working directly with companies involved in the manufacture, sale, and shipment of sensitive export-controlled items.

  • Hosted industry outreach events in Boston, Massachusetts; Houston, Texas; and Phoenix , Arizona to educate industry on the Strike Force’s work to stem the flow of sensitive technology to our adversaries, recent corporate enforcement initiatives, and tips and best practices for working with investigators on issues related to export compliance, cybersecurity, and protecting intellectual property.
  • Convened roundtable discussions with compliance officials and technical experts at multiple cutting-edge tech companies, research institutions, and defense contractors.

Toured the largest and third-largest commercial ports in the United States

Assistant Attorney General Olsen commemorates the first year of the Disruptive Technology Strike Force during a two-day conference in Phoenix, Arizona, joined by Assistant Secretary Axelrod, U.S. Attorneys from jurisdictions participating in the Strike Force, and a delegation from the Government of Ukraine.

Added new interagency partners to the effort and enforcement teams to the Strike Force.

  • To strengthen efforts to protect defense industry technology, the Strike Force added the Defense Criminal Investigative Service as a formal Strike Force partner.
  • To strategically align Strike Force presence with the location of critical technology-related industries throughout the United States, the Strike Force added enforcement teams in the Eastern District of North Carolina, the Western District of Texas, and the Southern District of Georgia.

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House leaders launch bipartisan artificial intelligence task force

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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has convened high-profile forums on artificial intelligence for months. Now, the two leaders of the House are getting in on the action as lawmakers struggle to regulate the fast-moving technology.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Tuesday that they are launching a bipartisan task force on artificial intelligence (AI) to explore how Congress can help America be a leader in AI innovation and to study guardrails to protect against potential threats caused by the technology, including deepfakes, the spread of misinformation, and job replacement.

The two House leaders have each appointed 12 members to the task force. It will be led by two Californians with computer science backgrounds: Chairman Jay Obernolte, a Republican who earned his master’s degree in AI and owns a video game development company, and Co-Chairman Ted Lieu, a member of the Democratic leadership team who last year wrote a bill to regulate AI using the AI chatbot ChatGPT.

Both Obernolte and Lieu were featured in an NBC News story last year where they warned their colleagues to take seriously the threats posed by AI while acknowledging that Congress has failed to impose regulations on powerful social media companies.

The new task force will tasked with writing a comprehensive report that will include guiding principles, recommendations and policy proposals developed with help from House committees of jurisdiction, the leaders said.

“Because advancements in artificial intelligence have the potential to rapidly transform our economy and our society, it is important for Congress to work in a bipartisan manner to understand and plan for both the promises and the complexities of this transformative technology,” Johnson said in a statement.

“As we look to the future, Congress must continue to encourage innovation and maintain our country’s competitive edge, protect our national security, and carefully consider what guardrails may be needed to ensure the development of safe and trustworthy technology.”

Jeffries added: “Congress has a responsibility to facilitate the promising breakthroughs that artificial intelligence can bring to fruition and ensure that everyday Americans benefit from these advancements in an equitable manner."

“The rise of artificial intelligence also presents a unique set of challenges and certain guardrails must be put in place to protect the American people,” he continued. “Congress needs to work in a bipartisan way to ensure that America continues to lead in this emerging space, while also preventing bad actors from exploiting this evolving technology.”

In addition to Obernolte, the other Republicans are: Reps. Neal Dunn, Kat Cammack, Scott Franklin and Laurel Lee, all of Florida; Darrell Issa and Michelle Steel, both of California; French Hill of Arkansas; Michael Cloud of Texas; Ben Cline of Virginia; Eric Burlison of Missouri; and Rich McCormick of Georgia.

In addition to Lieu, the other Democrats are: Reps. Anna Eshoo, Ami Bera and Sara Jacobs, all of California; Yvette Clarke and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both of New York; Bill Foster of Illinois; Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon; Don Beyer of Virginia; Haley Stevens of Michigan; Valerie Foushee of North Carolina; and Brittany Pettersen of Colorado.

Separately, another Californian, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna hosted an AI forum on Capitol Hill on Feb. 15 focused on worker equity, deception and manipulation using AI, and preparing American society, specifically children, for an AI-integrated world.

Participants included AI scholars, labor leaders and the science fiction writer Ted Chiang.

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Scott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News.

HOUSE LAUNCHES BIPARTISAN TASK FORCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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WASHINGTON  — Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced the establishment of a bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to explore how Congress can ensure America continues to lead the world in AI innovation while considering guardrails that may be appropriate to safeguard the nation against current and emerging threats.   Speaker Johnson and Leader Jeffries have each appointed twelve members to the Task Force that represent key committees of jurisdiction and will be jointly led by Chair Jay Obernolte (CA-23) and Co-Chair Ted Lieu (CA-36). The Task Force will seek to produce a comprehensive report that will include guiding principles, forward-looking recommendations and bipartisan policy proposals developed in consultation with committees of jurisdiction. “Because advancements in artificial intelligence have the potential to rapidly transform our economy and our society, it is important for Congress to work in a bipartisan manner to understand and plan for both the promises and the complexities of this transformative technology,” said  Speaker Mike Johnson.  “I am happy to announce with Leader Jeffries this new Bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence to ensure America continues leading in this strategic arena.     “Led by Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Ca.) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Ca.), the task force will bring together a bipartisan group of Members who have AI expertise and represent the relevant committees of jurisdiction. As we look to the future, Congress must continue to encourage innovation and maintain our country’s competitive edge, protect our national security, and carefully consider what guardrails may be needed to ensure the development of safe and trustworthy technology.” “Congress has a responsibility to facilitate the promising breakthroughs that artificial intelligence can bring to fruition and ensure that everyday Americans benefit from these advancements in an equitable manner,” said  Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.  “That is why I am pleased to join Speaker Johnson in announcing the new Bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, led by Rep. Ted Lieu and Rep. Jay Obernolte.”  “The rise of artificial intelligence also presents a unique set of challenges and certain guardrails must be put in place to protect the American people. Congress needs to work in a bipartisan way to ensure that America continues to lead in this emerging space, while also preventing bad actors from exploiting this evolving technology. The Members appointed to this Task Force bring a wide range of experience and expertise across the committees of jurisdiction and I look forward to working with them to tackle these issues in a bipartisan way.”  “It is an honor to be entrusted by Speaker Johnson to serve as Chairman of the House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence,” said  Chair Jay Obernolte (CA-23).  “As new innovations in AI continue to emerge, Congress and our partners in federal government must keep up. House Republicans and Democrats will work together to create a comprehensive report detailing the regulatory standards and congressional actions needed to both protect consumers and foster continued investment and innovation in AI.” “The United States has led the world in the development of advanced AI, and we must work to ensure that AI realizes its tremendous potential to improve the lives of people across our country. I look forward to working with Co-Chair Ted Lieu and the rest of the Task Force on this critical bipartisan effort.” “Thank you to Leader Jeffries and Speaker Johnson for establishing this bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial intelligence. AI has the capability of changing our lives as we know it. The question is how to ensure AI benefits society instead of harming us. As a recovering Computer Science major, I know this will not be an easy or quick or one-time task, but I believe Congress has an essential role to play in the future of AI. I have been heartened to see so many Members of Congress of all political persuasions agree,” said  Co-Chair Ted Lieu (CA-36).   “I am honored to join Congressman Jay Obernolte in leading this Task Force on AI, and honored to work with the bipartisan Members on the Task Force. I look forward to engaging with Members of both the Democratic Caucus and Republican Conference, as well as the Senate, to find meaningful, bipartisan solutions with regards to AI.”

Rep. Ted Lieu (CA-36),  Co-Chair   Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA-16) Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY-09) Rep. Bill Foster (IL-11) Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) Rep. Ami Bera (CA-06) Rep. Don Beyer (VA-08) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) Rep. Haley Stevens (MI-11) Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-51) Rep. Valerie Foushee (NC-04) Rep. Brittany Pettersen (CO-07)

Rep. Jay Obernolte (CA-23),  Chair   Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-48) Rep. French Hill (AR-02) Rep. Michael Cloud (TX-27) Rep. Neal Dunn (FL-02) Rep. Ben Cline (VA-06) Rep. Kat Cammack (FL-03) Rep. Scott Franklin (FL-18) Rep. Michelle Steel (CA-45) Rep. Eric Burlison (MO-07) Rep. Laurel Lee (FL-15) Rep. Rich McCormick (GA-06)

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US forms task force to explore guardrails for AI

The task force will produce a report including guiding principles as well as recommendations to help the country leverage ai technology by mitigating the risks..

By Gagandeep Kaur

Contributing writer, Computerworld |

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In a new effort to push for AI regulations, the US House of Representatives members have formed a bipartisan task force to explore legislation to address the growing worries and concerns related to AI adoption.

“The task force will seek to produce a comprehensive report that will include guiding principles, forward-looking recommendations, and bipartisan policy proposals developed in consultation with committees of jurisdiction,” said the press release announcing the task force.

The task force will explore “guardrails that may be appropriate to safeguard the nation against current and emerging threats,” the press release said.

A responsible and ethical tech strategy is critical for the long-term benefits of AI, pointed out Charlie Dai, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester. “While the potential legislation efforts will urge enterprises and tech vendors to rebalance the AI investment priorities, which might slowdown the innovation pace from a business perspective in the short term, it will substantially foster AI advancement in terms of security, privacy, ethics, and sustainability, which will be critical for the public trust on AI in the long run.”

According to Counterpoint Research Senior Analyst, Akshara Bassi, “AI regulation would come into play when it becomes part of active decision-making. So far, we are still using rule-based intelligence to complement decision-making. As AI becomes more evolved and sophisticated, regulations will help give AI models a structure and help in clear demarcation of boundaries, especially related to data sharing, privacy, and copyrights.”

Lack of clear regulations may be counterproductive

The US has taken several steps to come up with regulations to leverage AI for economic growth while addressing the concerns related to AI adoption. For instance, AI-generated voices were declared illegal by the Federal Communications Commission earlier this month.

Recently, the US government announced the establishment of the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) under the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to harness the potential of AI while mitigating its risks. Several major technology firms, including OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, and Nvidia, joined the consortium to ensure the safe development of AI .

Even so, a lack of clear and well-defined regulations can potentially impact the country’s growth in AI.

Delays in drafting a comprehensive set of legislation may deter enterprises from deploying the technology to grow their business.

“In 2023 alone, 190 bills were introduced at the state level to regulate AI, and 14 became law. At the federal level, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun to enforce existing laws with new powers from executive orders as well as more attention from FTC leadership. This could cause a dampening effect on enterprise AI innovation and strategy,” said a recent blog post by Michele Goetz, principal analyst, and Alla Valente, senior analyst at Forrester. 

Recently, the EU emerged as the first major power to introduce laws to govern the use of AI. Several countries, including the UK and Australia, among others, are working towards developing regulations and policies so they can confidently use AI to grow their economy while protecting themselves from potential risks.

The launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022 was disruptive and led to a significant increase in the adoption of the technology. At the same time, it has raised several cybersecurity and data privacy concerns, prompting countries to accelerate AI regulations.

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Fowler man arrested for child sexual abuse material, deputies say

FOWLER, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – A man has been arrested in Fowler after allegedly distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material on Thursday, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said.

According to deputies, detectives with the Central California Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force say they arrested 34-year-old Gilbert Felix Lopez of Fowler on Thursday.

Sheriff’s officials say the Central California ICAC Task Force received a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding uploading of child sexual abuse material. ICAC detectives immediately initiated an investigation and identified Lopez as the suspect.

According to sheriff’s officials, the ICAC Task Force detectives, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Fowler Police Department served a search warrant at the 500 block of South 7th Street in the city of Fowler.

During the search, detectives say they located the material at the location and placed Lopez under arrest. During the interview, Lopez admitted to being in possession and distributing the child sexual abuse material.

According to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, Lopez was booked into the Fresno County Jail on suspicion of charges of possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material. His bail was set at $60,000 and he has since posted bond and been released.

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