Re: I-D ACTION:draft-etal-ietf-analysis-00.txt

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>John Stracke wrote:
>> And the authors do caution that their numbers are blind to the quality 
of 
>> the RFCs.  Their point, though, is that looking at the easy metrics is 
>> better than not measuring anything at all;
>
>Wrong information is worse than no information. If the results don't 
>mean anything,

They don't mean *much*, but I wouldn't say they mean *nothing*.

>why measure?

As a research effort.  The current draft admits that the results are not 
directly useful.  But we'll never get techniques that do give useful 
results unless somebody starts trying.

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