On Sep 25, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do we have somewhere data on the number of drafts submitted per year? > > Melinda First place I’d ask is the RFC Editor. But... Using the rsync archive at rsync.ietf.org... I did an ls -lrt on the file of “all internet drafts since” someone started recording them, and all RFCs. I’m not convince that the year they wound of in the archive is the year in the index file, but I don’t feel like trying to parse the index file. But doing that and then gripping for year numbers (and noting that digit-digit-:-digit-digit is at the moment equivalent to “2014") year drafts RFCs 1968 0 1969 0 1970 0 1971 0 1972 0 1973 0 1974 2 1975 0 1976 0 1977 0 1978 0 1979 0 1980 0 1981 1 1982 0 1983 0 1984 0 1985 0 1986 22 1987 43 1988 43 1989 51 1990 0 59 1991 0 125 1992 140 368 1993 8 175 1994 210 183 1995 721 126 1996 1409 174 1997 1688 388 1998 2896 272 1999 2708 269 2000 3369 426 2001 4355 320 2002 4758 233 2003 4969 312 2004 4763 281 2005 4933 327 2006 5066 469 2007 4954 324 2008 5115 309 2009 5431 291 2010 6242 403 2011 6495 390 2012 6974 339 2013 6629 275 2014 1934 60 : 3211 216
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