Document formats and features in drafts

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

Formats

These formats are used:

  • Plain text only 1882 documents (98.95%).
  • PDF 20 documents (1.05%).
  • Postcript 1 documents (0.05%).

Features

These features are used within the documents:

  • Packet formats in 449 documents (23.61%).
  • Figures in 810 documents (42.59%).
  • ABNF in 113 documents (5.94%).
  • XML in 97 documents (5.10%).
  • ASN.1 in 42 documents (2.21%).
  • C code in 38 documents (2.00%).
  • RFC 2119 keywords in 1563 documents (82.18%).
  • Security considerations section in 1241 documents (65.25%).
  • IANA considerations section in 1135 documents (59.67%).

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 10/3, 2010.