IETF News

IETF 83 At–A–Glance

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Date: June 6, 2012

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IETF 83 Statistics

Registered attendees: 1318
Newcomers: 230
Number of countries: 56

IETF Activity since IETF 82 (Nov 2011–Feb 2012) 

New WGs: 3
WGs closed: 5
WG currently chartered: 115
New Internet-Drafts: 576
  • 200 updated
  • 46 updated more than once
Updated Internet-Drafts: 1114
IETF Last Calls: 133
Internet-Drafts approved for publication: 125
RFCs published: 115
  • 64 Standards Track and 5 BCP
  • 40 Informational and 6 Experimental

IANA Activity since IETF 82 (Nov 2011–Feb 2012)

Processed 1250 IETF-related requests, including:
  • Reviewed 110 I-Ds in Last Call and reviewed 102 I-Ds in IESG Evaluation
  • Reviewed 98 I-Ds prior to becoming RFCs and 60 of them contained actions for IANA
  • Processing goal average for IETF-related requests: 92%
  • Updated RFC Editor Queue: http://www.rfc-editor.org/current_queue.php
More-complete RFC Editor Report: http://www.rfc-editor.org/ietf.html

Good News for Time Zone Database

• Astrolabe dropped copyright infringment suit against David Olson and Paul Eggert noting that it was “based on a flawed understanding of the law.”

RFC Editor Activity since IETF 82 (Nov 2011–Feb 2012)

Published RFCs: 124
Internet-Drafts submitted for publication: 103
• 82 IETF WGs

Thanks for the Code

  • Code sprint was very successful
  • Incremental improvements to datatracker
  • Deployed datatracker

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