Document formats and features in RFCs

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

Formats

These formats are used:

  • Plain text only 5090 documents (98.47%).
  • PDF 74 documents (1.43%).
  • Postcript 55 documents (1.06%).

Features

These features are used within the documents:

  • Packet formats in 649 documents (12.56%).
  • Figures in 1238 documents (23.95%).
  • ABNF in 275 documents (5.32%).
  • XML in 134 documents (2.59%).
  • ASN.1 in 389 documents (7.53%).
  • C code in 146 documents (2.82%).
  • RFC 2119 keywords in 2543 documents (49.20%).
  • Security considerations section in 3499 documents (67.69%).
  • IANA considerations section in 1362 documents (26.35%).
  • 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 5/11, 2008.