Open records
The IETF operates in an open and transparent fashion and we publish open records of most of the contributions, submissions, statements, and communications that we receive.
Our open records are a mix of document based data such as email messages or meeting minutes, structured data such as details of Working Groups, and raw data such as statistics on meeting attendance.
Our Privacy Statement explains our approach to transparency. For details of how our records are licensed please see the IETF Trust website.
Other sites with open records
In addition to this website, you can also access our open records on these other sites:
- Datatracker. Through this tool you can find public data on all of our published documents (RFCs and Internet-Drafts), working groups and teams, meetings and proceedings, IPR disclosures, liaison statements and statistics. You can also use the Datatracker API to access data programmatically.
- Mail Archive. This allows you to search the archives of all of our public mailing lists. It provides a unique and permanent URL for every email message received.
- RFC Editor website. This provides access to all RFCs in a variety of formats through a number of mechanisms.
Statistics dashboards
- Statistics on Internet-Draft and RFCs
- Statistics on IETF Meetings
- Statistics on mailing list message counts and subscriber counts
Direct access to documents, records and raw data
Direct access is provided through two mechanisms: rsync at rsync.ietf.org and HTTP at www.ietf.org. These mechanisms are more suited for local processing or archival purposes.
The following table explains what is available through what mechanism. The names are not consistent between services and so the rsync name is used if it exists, otherwise the next best is used.
| Directory contents | Rsync name | HTTPS URL under ietf.org |
|---|---|---|
| Repository of WG Charters | charter | /charter |
| The Internet-Draft Archive (active and expired) | id-archive | /archive/id/ |
| The Internet-Draft Repository (currently active) | internet-drafts | /id/ |
| Repository of Proceedings | proceedings | /proceedings {1} |
| Repository of RFCs | rfc | /rfc |
| Repository of Slide Documents | slides | /slides |
| A grouping of some of these records | everything-ftp | /ietf-ftp |
| Older list text archives | concluded-wg-ietf-mail-archive | /ietf-ftp/concluded-wg-ietf-mail-archive |
| Repository of Conflict Review documents | conflict-reviews | /ietf-ftp/conflict-reviews |
| Repository of Mailing List Text Archives | mailman-archive |
/ietf-ftp/ietf-mail-archive /mail-archive/text |
| Repository of Status Change Documents | status-changes | /ietf-ftp/status-changes |
| IESG Minutes | iesg-minutes | NOT AVAILABLE BY HTTPS |
| Legacy material supporting long-lived URLs | legacy-files | NOT AVAILABLE BY HTTPS |
| The xml2rfc citation libraries | xml2rfc.bibxml | NOT AVAILABLE BY HTTPS |
| Jabber group chat logs | NOT AVAILABLE BY RSYNC | /jabber/logs {1} |
| ID and RFC indices | NOT AVAILABLE BY RSYNC | /download {1} |
| YANG modules | NOT AVAILABLE BY RSYNC | /ietf-ftp/yang |
Notes:
- {1} Directory listing forbidden (error 403) but access to individual files is allowed
Review of these archives
We regularly review the contents of these records and the mechanisms by which they are provided and as a result of that, may delete some records or cease mechanisms in the future.