Document formats and features in drafts

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

Formats

These formats are used:

  • Plain text only 1878 documents (98.74%).
  • PDF 24 documents (1.26%).
  • Postcript 6 documents (0.32%).

Features

These features are used within the documents:

  • Packet formats in 448 documents (23.55%).
  • Figures in 789 documents (41.48%).
  • ABNF in 116 documents (6.10%).
  • XML in 99 documents (5.21%).
  • ASN.1 in 32 documents (1.68%).
  • C code in 42 documents (2.21%).
  • RFC 2119 keywords in 1557 documents (81.86%).
  • Security considerations section in 1289 documents (67.77%).
  • IANA considerations section in 1199 documents (63.04%).

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 17/8, 2010.