4 Aug 2004
RFC Editor Report 60th IETF Meeting San Diego, California
4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 1 Justifiable Pride
April 7, 2004: 35th anniversary of RFC 1. RFCs were earliest online publication series. Series currently contains over 80,000 pages.
4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 2 Procedure Changes
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… 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
Require that citations & references match. Using automated checkers when feasible - o MIBs, abnf, XML, XML schema. WG chairs included in msgs to author, ADs Public discussion list: [email protected] “Office hours” at this IETF.
4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 4 Procedure Changes
Advisory group for RFC Editor “Editorial Board” Chosen by RFC Editor, to provide a set of wise heads with deep Internet and/or publication experience. To help us to serve the community better. 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, Vint Cerf, Bruce Davie, Sue Hares, Bob Hinden, John Klensin, Craig Partridge, Jim Schaad.
4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 6 New Services
Errata pages linked from RFC search engine. Internet Draft names in master index file rfc-index.xml. File of RFC bibliographic entries . 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
If your RFC was created with xml2rfc: please send us the xml file with the .txt file. URLs ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/IETFreports ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-index.txt, .xml ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-ref.txt http://www.rfc-editor.org/news.html
4 Aug 04 IETF 60 RFC Editor 10 Work in Progress
Adding working group names into the RFC index. oObstacle: getting valid historic data. Improving spam-robustness of email 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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