IETF News

IETF 96 At–A–Glance

By: Chris Harris


Date: November 1, 2016

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On-site participants: 1424

Newcomers: 283

Number of countries: 61

Hackathon participants: 158

IETF Activity since IETF 95 (3 April–17 July 2016)

New WGs: 4

WGs closed: 4

WG currently chartered: 144

New and revised Internet-Drafts (I-Ds): 1061

RFCs published: 100

  • 55 Standards Track, 3 BCP, 7 Experimental, 35 Informational

IANA Activity since IETF 95 (March–June 2016)

Processed 1553+ IETF-related requests, including:

  • Reviewed 97 I-Ds in Last Call and 114 I-Ds in Evaluation
  • Reviewed 104 I-Ds prior to becoming RFCs, 63 of the 104 contained actions for IANA

Added 3 new registries since IETF 95 (March–June 2016): opus-channel-mapping-families, http-alt-svc-parameters, vnc-uri

SLA Performance (January–June 2016)

  • Processing goal average for IETF-related requests: 98.5%
  • The 2016 SLA between ICANN and IAOC for the protocol parameter work has been approved and signed.

IANA and DNSSEC

  • As of 15 July 2016, 1221 TLDs have a full chain of trust from the root. http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/.
  • Ceremony 25 was executed successfuly on 12 May 2016.
  • Ceremony 26 is planned for 11 August 2016. https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies/26

RFC Editor Activity since IETF 95 (April–June 2016)

Published RFCs: 89

  • 77 IETF (5 IETF non-WG), 1 IAB, 0 IRTF, 6 Independent

Improvements to the website based on community feedback.

Stats project: testing completed, made preparations for install.

Internal: made a number of small updates to make RPC data more accurate and efficient.

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