Onsite participants: 1204
First-time participants: 199
Number of countries: 61
Hackathon participants: 199
IETF Activity since IETF 98 (26 March–16 July 2017)
New WGs
- DKIM Crypto Update (dcrup)
WGs closed
- Domain Boundaries (dbound)
- Geographic JSON (geojson)
- ART Area General Applications Working Group (appsawg)
WG currently chartered: 136
New and revised Internet-Drafts (I-Ds): 1388
IESG Protocol and Document Actions: 57
IESG Last Calls issued to the IETF: 70
RFCs published: 76
- 44 Standards Track, 5 BCP, 6 Experimental, 18 Informational
Notable process updates
- Published update to BCP 26, Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp26 - Published update to BCP 79, Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology. https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp79
- Published update to RFC 2119, Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8174 - Beta website at https://beta.ietf.org. Send feedback via GitHub or [email protected]
RFC Editor Activity since IETF 98 (April–June 2017)
Published RFCs: 64 (1720 pages)
Stable and pretty URLs for errata
Format-related updates
- Testing existing toolset with non-ASCII chars
- Testing id2xml (converts .txt to .xml v2)
- Reviewing required database and script updates related to non-ASCII chars and multiple
file formats
Current and ongoing activities
- Publishing RFCs: keep the docs moving
- Continue testing and sending feedback to tools team regarding XMLv3-related tools
- Update tools to handle UTF-8 and multiple file formats
- Draft internal procedures for v3 era as tools become more stable
Work with RSE on rfc7322bis (RFC Style Guide)