Statement of Work for Extensions to the IETF Datatracker for Author Statistics
RFC 7760
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(January 2016; No errata)
Was draft-housley-sow-author-statistics (individual in gen area)
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|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Russ Housley | ||
| Last updated | 2016-01-20 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | (None) | |
| Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 7760 (Informational) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Jari Arkko | ||
| Send notices to | rjsparks@nostrum.com | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | IANA OK - No Actions Needed | |
| IANA action state | No IANA Actions | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Housley
Request for Comments: 7760 Vigil Security
Category: Informational January 2016
ISSN: 2070-1721
Statement of Work for Extensions to the IETF Datatracker for
Author Statistics
Abstract
This is the Statement of Work (SOW) for extensions to the IETF
Datatracker to provide statistics about RFCs and Internet-Drafts and
their authors.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7760.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2. Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3. Affiliation of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.4. Countries of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.5. Continents of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. IETF Meeting Attendees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Countries of IETF Meeting Attendees . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Continents of IETF Meeting Attendees . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Existing Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Thoughts on Future Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
9. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1. Introduction
A prominent member of the IETF community has developed a set of tools
to produce statistics about the authors of RFCs and Internet-Drafts.
These tools analyze the documents themselves to produce statistics
about the documents and their authors. The goal of the IETF
Datatracker enhancements described in this document is to provide
similar statistics and ensure that the software is maintained as part
of the IETF information services. While some data may still need to
be extracted from the documents themselves, as much data as possible
should be maintained in the IETF Datatracker database [DATATRACKER].
Current statistics are available on the web at
http://www.arkko.com/tools/docstats.html.
The code that is used to produce these statistics is available at
http://www.arkko.com/tools/authorstats.html.
2. Purpose
Author statistics allow the community to understand where work is
being done and by whom. The statistics make it visible which
individuals, companies, and geographic regions are the most active
contributors. The statistics also show how these are changing over
the years.
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Some of the statistics provide "nice to know" information; however,
others are sometimes used to refer to a particular participant's
contributions in the IETF or used to study trends within IETF work.
For instance, the IETF has been trying to increase the diversity of
participants, and the statistics are one way to see the impact of
those efforts. Also, the most active individuals are potential
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