IETF Statistics

Document formats and features in RFCs

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

Formats

These formats are used:

  • Plain text only 9081 documents (99.40%).
  • PDF 0 documents (0.00%).
  • Postcript 55 documents (0.60%).

Features

These features are used within the documents:

  • Packet formats in 1441 documents (15.77%).
  • Figures in 2963 documents (32.43%).
  • ABNF in 610 documents (6.68%).
  • XML in 287 documents (3.14%).
  • ASN.1 in 462 documents (5.06%).
  • C code in 236 documents (2.58%).
  • RFC 2119 keywords in 5641 documents (61.74%).
  • Security considerations section in 7463 documents (81.69%).
  • IANA considerations section in 4230 documents (46.30%).
  • 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 2024-05-04.

All data in this report is retrieved from public sources, such as publications published at the IETF. The tool and the report are independent of the IETF, however.

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