IETF News

IETF 85 At–A–Glance

By: Dan York


Date: March 1, 2013

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Registered attendees: 1157
Newcomers: 195
Number of countries: 55

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IETF Activity since IETF 84 (July–October 2012)

New WGs: 1
WGs closed: 3
WGs currently chartered: 115
New or revised Internet-Drafts: 1567
IETF Last Calls: 71
Internet-Drafts approved for publication: 73
RFCs published: 73
– 67 IETF (55 Working Group, 12 Individual/AD Sponsored)
-2 IAB
– 1 IRTF
– 3 Independent

IANA Activity since IETF 84 (July–October 2012)

Processed more than 1300 IETF-related requests, including:
Reviewed 92 I-Ds in IETF Last Call and reviewed 95 I-Ds in Evaluation
Reviewed 110 I-Ds prior to becoming RFCs, 68 of the 110 contained actions for IANA
Processing goal average for IETF-related requests: 91%
Projects and Deliverables
– Phase 2 of integration of tools beginning implementation
– XMLization of registries 91% complete, converting final registries
IANA and DNSSec
– 95 TLDs have a full chain of trust form the root, see http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/
– Ceremony 10 was executed successfully on 26 July 2012
– Ceremony 11 was executed successfully on 12–13 November 2012

RFC Editor Activity since IETF 84 (25 July–1 November 2012)

Published RFCs: 73
Internet-Drafts submitted for publication: 75
– 64 IETF WGs
RFC Format Updates
– (Draft) Requirements document available: draft-rfc-format-flanagan
Improved RFC Search Engine (beta)
– See http://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search.php
Info pages for subseries identifiers
– Example: http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp9

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