IETF News

IETF 88 At–A–Glance

By: Dan York


Date: June 27, 2016

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On-site attendees: 1,142

Newcomers: 123

Number of countries: 54

IETF Activity since IETF 87 (July 2013–November 2013)

New WGs: 7

WGs closed: 0

WG currently chartered: 115

New or revised Internet-Drafts (I-Ds): 1547

IETF Last Calls: 105

Internet-Drafts approved for publication: 101

RFCs published: 55

  • 46 IETF (42 WG, 7 Individual/AD Sponsored), 1 IAB, 1 IRTF, 4 Independent

Live and Social Media

  • YouTube: 276 max concurrent viewers, 748 total views by 3:30pm
  • Twitter: 837 tweets on #IETF88, exposure via @IETF= 217,466, exposure via #IETF88=1,658,351, 40 new followers to @IETF
  • Facebook: 327 Likes

Antiharassment Policy (www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/ietf-anti-harassment-policy.html)

  • Specifies “IETF participants should not engage in harassment,” and establishes an ombudsperson.

Mentoring Programme now has 58 participants

IANA Activity since IETF 86 (July 2013–September 2013)

Processed 946+ IETF-related requests, including:

  • Reviewed 79 I-Ds in Last Call and reviewed 64 I-Ds in Evaluation
  • Reviewed 66 I-Ds prior to becoming RFCs, 35 of the 66 contained actions for IANA

SLA Performance

  • Processing goal average for IETF-related requests: 99%
  • Currently drafting the 2014 SLA

IANA and DNSSec

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

RFC Editor Activity since IETF 87 (July 2013–November 2013)

Published RFCs: 62

  • 26 Standards Track, 3 BCP, 6 Experimental, 27 Informational

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