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The RFC Editor Report from November 2004 provides insights into the increasing submissions of RFC documents, averaging 28 per month, and details efforts to reduce backlog through professional copyediting. It highlights the popularity and effectiveness of the RFC Editor's office hours and presents updates on key boilerplate RFCs 3667 and 3668. Additionally, it notes a slight increase in XML submissions and the introduction of a new MS Word template. The report emphasizes ongoing endeavors for improving processing efficiency and solicits feedback on new tools.
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RFC Editor Report 10 Nov 2004 61st IETF Meeting Washington, DC http://www.rfc-editor.org Report at: ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/IETFreports
NEWS • Document arrivals steadily increasing • Avg 28/mo, up from 25/mo in 2003, 20/mo in 2001 • Professional copyeditor in use to reduce backlog • Very effective in speeding processing • Authors may see more queries RFC Editor Report
NEWS • RFC Ed Office Hours • Appear to be popular and useful • Plan to continue at future IETFs • Boilerplate RFCs (3667 & 3668) have been updated • Published as RFC3907 & RFC3908 • Very minor change in rules for ID boilerplate • Recommend referring to them as BCP78 & BCP79 RFC Editor Report
NEWS • Preserved retrieval of RFCs via email, rfc-info • Required adding some “spam resiliency” • Slight increase in XML submissions • Still only 26 XML source files of 181 docs in queue • BTW, we’re interested in feedback on a new MS Word template (courtesy of J. Touch): • http://www.isi.edu/touch/tools RFC Editor Report
Monthly Stats -- Throughput Since Last IETF: August 2004 – October 2004 Processed Docs ~Pages DNPs/Withdrawals: 4 221 Total Published: 89 2239 Submissions Docs IETF Submissions: 85 Independent Submissions 1 Total Submissions: 86 RFC Editor Report
Thank You RFC Editor Report
Backup slides --not presented at plenary--
Monthly Stats -- Queue RFC Editor Queue as of October 31 , 2004 Status Docs Pages Pending RFC Editor Action: (EDIT) Editing/Nroffing/Proofing 51 1645 (EDIT) + IANA 9 392 (EDIT) + REF 39 1134 (EDIT) + REF + IANA 10 894 Final Review (RFC-EDITOR) 27 808 Independent Submission Review (ISR) 33 958 Pending External Action: Author Revisions (AUTH & AUTH48 & ISR-AUTH) 15 691 IESG action needed (IESG & TO) 11 398 IANA action needed (IANA) 0 0 Docs with Norm Ref. Issues (REF) 19 726 Total Drafts in Queue 214 7646 RFC Editor Report
Current Queue Breakdown RFC Editor Edit + IANA Edit Edit + Ref IESG TimeOut Edit + Ref + IANA RFC Editor Report
Queue – all states RFC Editor Report
Queue -- RFC Ed states RFC Editor Report