By: Michelle Speckler
Date: March 19, 2017
IETF 97 At–A–Glance
Onsite participants: 1,042
Remote participants: 238
Newcomers: 154
Number of countries: 52
Hackathon participants: 140+
IETF Activity since IETF 96 (17 July–13 November 2016)
New WGs: 6
WGs closed: 4
WGs currently chartered: 146
New and revised Internet-Drafts (I-Ds): 1419
RFCs published: 88
- 53 Standards Track, 3 BCP, 3 Experimental, 29 Informational
IANA Activity since IETF 96 (July–October 2016)
Processed 1281+ IETF-related requests, including:
- Reviewed 95 I-Ds in Last Call and 91 I-Ds in Evaluation
- Reviewed 94 I-Ds prior to becoming RFCs, 51 of the 94 contained actions for IANA
Added two new stand-alone registries since IETF 96 (July–October 2016): iodef2, clue
SLA Performance (May–October 2016)
- Processing goal average for IETF-related requests: 99.6%
- The 2017 SLA between ICANN and IAOC for the protocol parameter work is being drafted for review and approval.
IANA and DNSSEC
- As of 9 October 2016, 1351 TLDs have a full chain of trust from the root. http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/.
- Ceremony 26 was executed successfully on 11 August 2016. Ceremony 27 was executed successfully on 27 October 2016.
- Ceremony 28 is planned for 2 February 2017. https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies/28.
RFC Editor Activity since IETF 96 (July–October 2016)
Published RFCs: 91
- 71 IETF (8 IETF non-WG), 2 IAB, 4 IRTF, 6 Independent
Improvements to the website based on community feedback; expect launch of live version prior to IETF 98.
Website to document coding projects based on IETF specifications has been renamed CodeStand. (See page 9 for more information about CodeStand.)