IETF News

IETF 81 At–A–Glance – October 2011

By: Mat Ford

Date: October 6, 2011

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Registered attendees: 1057

Newcomers: 133

Number of countries: 46

IETF Activity since IETF 80 (March–June 2011)

New WGs: 5

WGs closed: 5

WG currently chartered: 121

New Internet-Drafts: 553

183 updated
43 updated more than once

Updated Internet-Drafts: 1138

IETF Last Calls: 128

Internet-Drafts approved for publication: 100

RFCs published: 149

63 Standards Track and 5 BCP
66 Informational and 15 Experimental

IANA Activity since IETF 80 (March–June 2011)

Processed 1532 IETF-related requests, including:

776 private enterprise number requests
45 port number requests
54 TRIP ITAD number requests
32 media-type requests

Reviewed 137 I-Ds in Last Call and reviewed 130 I-Ds in IESG Evaluation

Reviewed 132 I-Ds prior to becoming RFCs and 74 of them contained actions for IANA

Cumulative percentage average for IETF-related requests: 95%

Protocol registries conversation to XML: 78% complete

RFC Editor Activity (March–June 2011)

Digital signatures for RFCs

Discussed on rfc-interest list (subject: [rfc-i] Signing RFCs)
As of 19 July 2011: RFC Editor will sign RFCs in same manner as I-Ds (as defined in RFC 5485)

Conclusion of FYI RFC sub-series

Draft-iesg-rfc1150bis-01.txt approved
Obsoletes RFC 1150
Moves RFC 1150 to Historic status

This article was posted on 27 October 2011 .