The Purpose of These Statistics
These statistics have been created in order to understand
who and where is doing IETF work in terms of drafts and RFCs.
Which companies are the most active contributors? How has the
situation changed over the years? Who has published most RFCs?
What percentage of drafts use ABNF or PDF?
However, this is provided mostly as a "nice to know" information;
often the information has only entertainment value. But in
some cases it can be used to find out what a particular person has
done in the IETF, where IETF efforts are done in the world, what a
particular company is focusing on, etc that may have some practical
application.
Details of the tool's measurement mechanisms are available in the
tool
description.
Documents
The distribution of document and according to number of authors here,
Document page count distribution looks like this.
The used document format types and content features are shown here.
RFC publication rate is shown below.
Authors
The distribution of authors according to the number of documents
they have is shown separately for drafts, recent RFCs, and all RFCs. For the purposes of
this analysis, recent RFCs have been defined as any RFC from RFC 7000
onwards.
The relative impact of the RFCs of the different authors can be seen here.
The authors work in one or multiple WGs according this distribution.
The same distribution for cross-area work is here.
Most active authors per area can be seen here.
New RFC authors on a given year can be seen here:
Areas and WGs
The distribution of WGs per areas is shown in here.
The distribution of drafts according to WGs is shown here,
and according to areas is shown here.
Affiliations
This analysis shows which companies are behind the authors for drafts,
recent RFCs,
all RFCs,
and all documents.
Over the years, the situation has changed like this
(normalized), counted from RFCs.
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Countries and Continents
This analysis shows from which countries drafts, recent RFCs, RFCs, and all documents come from. Over
the years, the situation for RFCs has developed like this (normalized).
Considering EU as a country, the distribution would look like this for
drafts,
recent RFCs,
RFCs, and
all documents
instead.
The same distribution for continents is here for drafts, recent
RFCs, RFCs, and all documents. Over the years, the
situation for RFCs has developed like this (normalized).
Authors come from these countries for
drafts,
recent RFCs,
RFCs, and
all documents.
Considering EU as a country, the distribution would look like this for
drafts,
recent RFCs,
RFCs, and
all documents instead.
The same distribution for continents can be found here for
drafts,
recent RFCs,
RFCs, and
all documents.
Detailed data
All active authors can be seen here.
Countries can be seen here.
And active companies can be seen here.
Information Sources
The information is gathered from the following public sources:
- Published RFCs and drafts. The getauthors
tool can recover author information from these documents.
- IETF web site information about WGs, areas, chairs, ADs, IAB members, etc.
Reliability
The statistics gathering system is unable to parse all documents
for author information. See the list of fatal problems in drafts
and RFCs.
Many entries have limited information. See where this happens for drafts and
RFCs. Drafts for which draftname@tools.ietf.org addresses do not work or do not work fully can be seen here.
Warning: See the tool
description for detailed information about what can or can not be
assumed about the quality of the results.
Privacy
For various good reasons the IETF process for making submissions
is open and all information, including author's information is
publicly available. The statistics tools use this information. In
the most recent version of the statistics tools, the statistics are
based only on documents submitted to the IETF.
Should there be any concern about any information relating to a
particular document author in these statistics, we provide an
opportunity to send corrections or even remove data concerning a
particular author on request. Email jari.arkko(at)piuha.net.takeaway
to contact the developer. Please use a subject line that includes
the word authorstats. Our privacy policy can be found
in here.
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