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.
NOTE: Please see our Privacy Statement for full details of our approach to transparency and details of what we do not make public. For details of how IETF contributions are licensed please see the IETF Trust website.
Our open records are 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 records are available through a mix online tools and direct access. The tools provide additional features, better context and managed workflows, while the direct access mechanisms are more suited for local processing or archival purposes.
Key access tools
- 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. There are also details of how to 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.
- This website. Additionally, our website has pages on meetings (past and upcoming), policies and groups/teams.
Statistics dashboards
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.
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 |
| IANA Time Zone Database | NOT AVAILABLE BY RSYNC | /timezones |
| The Internet Draft Archive (active and expired) | id-archive | /archive |
| 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 |
| IANA assignments | NOT AVAILABLE BY RSYNC | /assignments {2} |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Old website from 2009 | NOT AVAILABLE BY RSYNC | /old |
| Raw audio from IETF 105 and IETF 106 | NOT AVAILABLE BY RSYNC | /audio |
| ID and RFC indices | NOT AVAILABLE BY RSYNC | /download |
| YANG modules | NOT AVAILABLE BY RSYNC | /ietf-ftp/yang |
Notes:
- {1} Directory listing forbidden (error 403) but access to individual files is allowed
- {2} Redirects to IANA website
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.