On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Bob Braden wrote: > *> 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. from that draft: If these sorts of measures are useful, the question is what additional measurements and analyses should be pursued? number of authors listed on each WG item output and trends in same [1, 2]. Obviously. L. [1] J. Touch, private communication. [2] M. Allman, private communication. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>