IETF Status at IETF 78
Russ Housley, IETF Chair
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IETF Grey Beard Beer?
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IETF 78 Participants
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1153 people
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267 newcomers
IETF 75 was 1124 people
53 countries
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IETF 75 was 51 countries
IETF 75 was held in Stockholm
US
FR
UK
JP
NL
FI
CN
DE
Others
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IETF Activity since
IETF 77 (Anaheim)
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6 New WG, 3 Closed WGs
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467 New I-Ds (127 were updated, 36 more than once)
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52% (273 New I-Ds) received in the 4 weeks before the meeting
1069 I-Ds were updated (again, some more than once)
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Approximately 122 WGs currently chartered
77% (823 Updated I-Ds) received in the 4 weeks before the meeting
115 IETF Last Calls
106 I-Ds approved for publication
120 RFCs published
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66 Standards Track and 1 BCP
44 Informational and 9 Experimental
These are measures of quantity; they say nothing about quality!
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RFC Editor Activity since
IETF 77 (actually Mar 2010-Jun 2010)
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Published 142 RFCs (about 3568 pages)
129 I-Ds Submitted for publication
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93 IETF WGs
31 IETF Individuals
5 IRTF, IAB, and Independent combined
Glenn Kowack is RSE as of 19 April 2010
Bob Braden continues as a member of the RSAG and
Editorial Board
Separate RSAG and Editorial Board web pages
established:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/ISEB.html
http://www.rfc-editor.org/RSAG.html
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RFC Editor Activity since
IETF 77 (continued)
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URLs of AUTH48 status pages have been added to
the queue2.xml file
http://www.rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfcXXXX/auth48-url
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Errata entries indicate when an RFC has been
obsoleted and provides a link to the RFC metadata
page
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IANA Activity since IETF 77
(actually Mar 2010-Jun 2010)
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Processed 1580+ IETF-related requests, including:
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760 Private Enterprise Number requests
72 port number requests
82 TRIP ITAD Number requests
23 language subtag requests
17 media type requests
Reviewed 134 I-Ds in Last Call, and
reviewed 129 I-Ds in IESG Evaluation
Reviewed 128 I-Ds prior to becoming RFCs, and
79 of them contained actions for IANA
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IANA Activity since IETF 77
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In June 2010, cumulatively met 98% of processing goals!
For statistics and activity reports, please see:
http://www.iana.org/about/performance/ietf-statistics
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For the plenary report for IETF-78, please see:
http://iaoc.ietf.org/plenary_reports.html
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Continuing to convert protocol registries to XML
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63% complete
First set of legacy text files was archived after this IETF 77; additional
text files will be archived after this meeting, please see
 announcement sent to IETF mail list on 16 July 2010
Working to modify the format of contact information in IANA
maintained registries
Registries shadowed at http://www.ietf.org/assignments 8
DNSSEC Deployed!
The root is signed
.org is signed
ietf.org is signed
iab.org is signed
isoc.org is signed
icann.org is signed
iana.org is almost signed
.arpa is almost signed
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Thanks for the Minutes
IESG narrative scribe volunteers!
• The IESG asked for volunteers
• Three new volunteers join the previous two volunteers
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John Leslie
Marc Blanchet
Barry Lieba
Susan Hares
Linda Dunbar
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Thanks for the Code
Code sprint was very successful on Saturday!
• Significant changes in the datatracker
• Deployed new release this week; running now
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Robert Sparks
Jelte Jansen
Lars Eggert
Henrik Levkowetz
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Matthijs Mekking
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Warren Kumari
Peter Musgrave
Ryan Cross
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Yuri Schaeffer
Paul Hoffman
Tero Kivinen
Tony Hansen
Adam Roach
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Future meetings
IETF 79
Beijing, China
7-12 November 2010
Main host:
IETF 80
Prague, Czech Republic
27 March – 1 April 2011
Main host: TBD (close to a deal)
IETF 81
Quebec City, Canada
24-29 July 2011
Main host: TBD (close to a deal)
Please remember that IETF
meetings run until Friday at
1515. Late scheduling
changes are common.
There were 14 more slots
requested for this meeting
that are available!
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