1 IETF Status at IETF 73 Russ Housley, IETF Chair

2 IETF 73 Participants 937 people IETF 70 was 1114 people 52 countries IETF 70 was 37 countries IETF 70 was held in Vancouver

3 IETF Activity since IETF 72 (Dublin) 2 New WGs, 5 Closed WGs Approximately 115 WGs currently chartered 389 New I-Ds (101 were updated, 22 more than once) 58% (229 New I-Ds) received in the 4 weeks before the meeting 887 I-Ds were updated (again, some more than once) 67% (602 Updated I-Ds) received in the 4 weeks before the meeting 98 IETF Last Calls 75 I-Ds approved for publication 97 RFCs published 59 Standards Track and 6 BCP 22 Informational and 10 Experimental These are measures of quantity; they say nothing about quality!

4 RFC Editor Activity since IETF 72 (actually Jul 2008-Oct 2008) Published 113 RFCs (about 2976 pages) 102 I-Ds Submitted for publication 43 waiting for submission of a missing reference 78 submitted by the IETF Errata portal Errata submission and new search cpability: Added “Hold for Document Update” status RFCs Online – old RFCs scanned as PDF IENs 5 and 21 available as PDF Looking for copies of RFCs 254 and 500 Looking for better quality copy of RFC 8

5 RFC Editor Activity since IETF 72 (continued) New IETF Copyright Notice BCP 78/RFC 5378 Applying new text as of 10 November ISSN assigned for the RFC Series Placement of ISSN in RFCs is TBD Discussion on

6 IANA Activity since IETF 72 (actually Jul 2008-Oct 2008) Processed 1466 IETF-related requests, including: 840 Private Enterprise Number requests 97 port requests 44 TRIP ITAD Numbers 30 media type requests Reviewed 69 I-Ds in Last Call, and reviewed 81 I-Ds in IESG Evaluation Reviewed 103 I-Ds prior to becoming RFC, and 65 contained IANA actions

7 IANA Activity since IETF 72 (continued) No more than 15 requests in any queue (except for influxes) Ports has more than 15 due to a change in registration procedures Last Calls and Media types also are experiencing a spike this month Continuing to convert protocol registries to XML Will announce to the IETF community when old formats will no longer be available

8 Thanks for the Donation The authors of Beautiful Security have donated 100% of their royalties to the IETF. Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think

9 Thanks for the Code Robert Sparks Lars Eggert Pasi Eronen Henrik Levkowetz Magnus Westerlund Jelte Jansen Chris Newman Alexey Melnikov Tero Kivinen Bill Fenner Glen Barney Code sprint was a big success on Saturday! Deployed this week: datatracker version 2.09 and then version 2.12 interface and a new look-and-feel to the datatracker hard-to-maintain legacy script replacement Even more in the coming weeks …

10 Future meetings IETF 74 San Francisco, CA, USA March 2009 Main host: IETF 75 Stockholm, Sweden July 2009 Main host: IETF 76 Hiroshima, Japan July 2009 Main host: IETF 77 Anaheim, CA, USA March 2010 In the past, IETF meetings have run until Friday at This meeting we are running an experiment; we extended the meeting to Please respond to the meeting survey to let us know if the extra meeting sessions were useful. We are considering the longer Friday schedule for IETF 74. Help us make an informed decision!