IETF News

IETF 95 At–A–Glance

By: Michelle Speckler

Date: July 6, 2016

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IETF 95 PieOn-site participants: 1002 (140 from South America)

Newcomers: 171

Number of countries: 55

IETF Activity since IETF 94 (01 November–3 April 2016)

New WGs: 5

WGs closed: 7

WG currently chartered: 144

New and revised Internet-Drafts (I-Ds): 1968

RFCs published: 133

  • 76 Standards Track, 6 BCP, 7 Experimental, 44 Informational

IANA Activity since IETF 94 (October 2015–February 2016)

Processed 1581+ IETF-related requests, including:

  • Reviewed 113 I-Ds in Last Call and 133 I-Ds in Evaluation
  • Reviewed 133 I-Ds prior to becoming RFCs, 68 of the 133 contained actions for IANA

Added 11 new registries since IETF 94 (October 2015–February 2016): mrt-parameters, abfab-parameters, ppsp-tp, emergency-call-additional-data, bgp-ls-parameters, content-security-policy-directives, dncp-registry, ospf-parameters, cdni-parameters, markdown-variants, owamp-parameters

SLA Performance (September 2015–February 2016)

  • Processing goal average for IETF-related requests: 97%
  • The draft 2016 SLA between ICANN and IAOC for the protocol parameter work is still under review.

IANA and DNSSEC

  • As of 28 March 2016, 1093 TLDs have a full chain of trust from the root. http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/.

RFC Editor Activity since IETF 94 (January–March 2016)

Published RFCs: 101

  • 63 IETF (10 IETF non-WG), 2 IAB, 1 IRTF, 5 Independent

Improvements to website based on community feedback

  • Cluster pages make it easier to check the I-D holding up a cluster.
  • Added “Discuss this RFC” (pointing to the WG mailing list), where applicable.

Responded to three legal requests.