Oh well,
California.... So it will be another few hours before they start. What a Working Group works on(draft) may go on to become and RFC. Here's your chance to participate!
OAUTH looks interesting and is relevant to web developers.
From http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-authentication-01
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The OAuth protocol provides a method for servers to allow third-party
access to protected resources, without forcing their end users to
share their credentials. This pattern is common among services that
allow third-party developers to extend the service functionality, by
building applications using an open API.
For example, a web user (resource owner) can grant a printing service
(client) access to its private photos stored at a photo sharing
service (server), without sharing its credentials with the printing
service. Instead, the user authenticates directly with the photo
sharing service and issue the printing service delegation-specific
credentials.
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So dig in and join the jabber/webex sessions
About the IETF:
http://www.ietf.org/about/mission.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_Force#Operations
and a dated pdf
http://tnc2000.terena.org/proceedings/8A/8a2.pdf