*> *> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. *> *> *> Title : Toward a Quantitative Analysis of IETF Productivity *> Author(s) : M. Rose, D. Crocker *> Filename : draft-etal-ietf-analysis-00.txt *> Pages : 23 *> Date : 27-Mar-02 *> *> This memo presents an initial quantitative analysis of the IETF's *> working groups using RFC publication as the primary metric. *> *> Right. And presumably one would measure the effectiveness of the health care industry by counting the number of prescriptions that doctors have written. Increasingly, the most important standards RFCs may be the (ill-advised) ones we DON'T publish. Bob Braden