4 Aug 2004

RFC Editor Report 60th IETF Meeting San Diego, California

4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 1 Justifiable Pride

ƒ April 7, 2004: 35th anniversary of RFC 1. ƒ RFCs were earliest online publication series. ƒ Series currently contains over 80,000 pages.

4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 2 Procedure Changes

ƒ New copyright/IPR rules put into practice. o In: draft-rfc-editor-rfc2223bis-08.txt o See: http://www.rfc-editor.org/copyright.html o We think we have it right, now… ƒ New IESG rules for approving independent submissions o In: draft-iesg-rfced-documents-03.txt o New disclaimer boilerplate.

4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 3 Procedure Changes

ƒ Require that citations & references match. ƒ Using automated checkers when feasible - o MIBs, abnf, XML, XML schema. ƒ WG chairs included in msgs to author, ADs ƒ Public discussion list: [email protected] ƒ “Office hours” at this IETF.

4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 4 Procedure Changes

ƒ Advisory group for RFC Editor ƒ “Editorial Board” ƒ Chosen by RFC Editor, to provide a set of wise heads with deep and/or publication experience. ƒ To help us to serve the community better. ƒ Provide broader competence for review of independent submissions.

4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 5 Current Ed Board membership (expected to grow): Scott Bradner, , Bruce Davie, Sue Hares, Bob Hinden, John Klensin, , Jim Schaad.

4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 6 New Services

ƒ Errata pages linked from RFC search engine. ƒ Internet Draft names in master index file rfc-index.xml. ƒ File of RFC bibliographic entries ƒ . ƒ Queue page now contains hyperlinks.

4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 7 Monthly Stats (1)

Since Last IETF: March 2004 – July 2004

Processed Docs ~Pages DNPs/Withdrawals: 2 64 Total Published: 132 3899

Submissions Docs IETF Submissions: 123 Independent Submissions 18 Total Submissions: 141

4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 8 Monthly Stats (2)

RFC Editor Queue as of June 30 , 2004 Status Docs Pages Pending RFC Editor Action: (EDIT) Editing/Nroffing/Proofing 50 1340 (EDIT) + IANA 27 767 (EDIT) + REF 30 1170 (EDIT) + REF + IANA 5 298 Final Review (RFC-EDITOR) 10 596 Independent Submis. Review (ISR) 25 782 Pending External Action: Author Revisions (AUTH & AUTH48 20 529 &ISR-AUTH) IESG action needed (IESG & TO) 18 524 IANA action needed (IANA) 0 0 Docs with Norm Ref. Issues (REF) 28 1000 Total Drafts in Queue 213 7006 4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 9 Reminders

ƒ If your RFC was created with xml2rfc: please send us the xml file with the .txt file. ƒ URLs ƒ ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/IETFreports ƒ ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-index.txt, .xml ƒ ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-ref.txt ƒ http://www.rfc-editor.org/news.html

4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 10 Work in Progress

ƒ Adding working group names into the RFC index. oObstacle: getting valid historic data. ƒ Improving spam-robustness of retrieval service (rfc-info)

4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 11 Stats by Month

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4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 12 Queue – all states

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4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 13 Queue – only RFCEd states

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EDIT-no-mod EDIT*A RFC-EDITOR ISR

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