IETF News

IETF 80 At-A-Glance

By: Mat Ford

Date: July 1, 2014

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On-site attendance: 1,364

Newcomers: 220

Number of countries: 60

IETF Activity since IETF 88 (November 2013–March 2014)

New WGs: 7

WGs closed: 0

WG currently chartered: 120

New and revised Internet-Drafts (I-Ds): 1707

IETF Last Calls: 96

Internet-Drafts submitted: 132

RFCs published: 91

  • 74 IETF (61 WG, 13 Individual/AD Sponsored), 2 IAB, 3 IRTF, 12 Independent
  • Live and Social Media
  • STRINT workshop: 525 tweets, exposure 1.352K
  • IETF 89: 269 tweets on #IETF89, exposure via @IETF= 161K, exposure via #IETF89=529.6K, 73 new followers since 19 February 2014
  • Facebook: 460 Likes

Mentoring Programme now has 20 mentor matches

Mailing List Discussion Style Guide: In progress

  • Inspired by recent discussions on list, to promote professionalism and respect on lists and email

IANA Activity since IETF 88 (October 2013–January 2014)

Processed 1337+ IETF-related requests, including:

  • Reviewed 110 I-Ds in Last Call and reviewed 131 I-Ds in Evaluation
  • Reviewed 116 I-Ds prior to becoming RFCs, 63 of the 116 contained actions for IANA

SLA Performance (August 2013–January 2014)

  • Processing goal average for IETF-related requests: 99%
  • Currently revising the 2014 SLA between ICANN and IAOC for the protocol parameter work

IANA and DNSSEC

  • 265 TLDs have a full chain of trust from the root, http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/

RFC Editor Activity since IETF 88 (November 2013–March 2014)

Published RFCs: 91

  • 35 Standards Track, 6 BCP, 4 Experimental, 46 Informational