Document formats and features in RFCs

“Document Stats -- What is Going on in the IETF?”

Formats

These formats are used:

  • Plain text only 1567 documents (99.75%).
  • PDF 4 documents (0.25%).
  • Postcript 0 documents (0.00%).

Features

These features are used within the documents:

  • Packet formats in 319 documents (20.31%).
  • Figures in 600 documents (38.19%).
  • ABNF in 147 documents (9.36%).
  • XML in 105 documents (6.68%).
  • ASN.1 in 84 documents (5.35%).
  • C code in 37 documents (2.36%).
  • RFC 2119 keywords in 1258 documents (80.08%).
  • Security considerations section in 1566 documents (99.68%).
  • IANA considerations section in 982 documents (62.51%).
  • Errata exists for 0 documents (0.00%).

The document feature recognition is based on heuristics and is inherently unreliable.

Data Freshness and Source

This is a part of a statistics report generated by authorstats on 20/7, 2010.