RFCs
Total number of RFCs is 9164.
The distribution of RFC and according to number of authors here,
RFC page count distribution looks like this.
The used document format types and content features are shown here.
The growth of publication rate per year is shown here.
The most frequently cited RFCs can be seen here.
Authors
The distribution of authors according to the number of RFCs
they have is shown here.
New RFC authors on a given year can be seen here.
The relative impact of different RFC authors can be seen here.
Affiliations
Authors come from these companies, 2483 different companies in total.
Over the years, the situation has changed like this
(normalized).
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Countries and Continents
Over the years, the situation has developed like this (normalized).
Considering EU as a country, the distribution would look like this instead.
The same distribution for continents can be found here.
Over the years, the situation has developed like this
(normalized).
Authors come from these countries.
Considering EU as a country, the distribution would look like this instead.
The same distribution for continents can be found here.
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
Out of the total 9164 RFCs, 28 or 0.31% are unparseable by this tool.
See here for a list of RFCs with problems.
Out of a total of 24202 authors entries, 4132 or 17.07% had limited information. See here for a list of authors with problems.
See here for a list of RFCs with incomplete or non-working e-mail addresses.
Warning: See the tool description for detailed information about what can or can not be assumed about the quality of the results.
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based only on documents submitted to the IETF.
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Data Freshness and Source
This is a part of a statistics report generated by authorstats
on 2024-04-24. 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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