Statistics:

IETF document statistics

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

Documents

The distribution of document and according to number of authors here, Document page count distribution looks like this. The used document format types and content features are shown here.

Authors

The distribution of authors according to the number of documents they have is shown separately for drafts, recent RFCs, and all RFCs.

The authors work in one or multiple WGs according this distribution. The same distribution for cross-area work is here. Most active authors per area can be seen here.

Areas and WGs

There are 117 WGs and 8 areas, an average of 14.62 WGs/area. The distribution of WGs per areas is shown in more detail here. The distribution of drafts according to WGs is shown here, and according to areas is shown here,

Affiliations

Authors come from these companies, 1780 different companies in total.

Countries and Continents

Documents come from these countries, 51 different countries in total. Considering EU as a country, the distribution would look like this instead. The same distribution for continents can be found here.

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.

Data Reliability

The statistics gathering system is unable to parse all documents for author information. See the list of fatal problems in drafts and RFCs. Many entries have limited information. See where this happens for drafts and RFCs.

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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