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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 23 November 2018 21:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: Documents with no authors
To: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>, IETF Discussion <ietf@ietf.org>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 2018-11-23 23:29, Stewart Bryant wrote:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/stats/document/authors/
> 
> Why do such a high proportion of our documents (for example 1929 RFCs) 
> have no authors?
> 
> - Stewart

Because there's a bug; I suggest the "Report a bug" link at the bottom of the page.

A quick Python program scanning the RFC Index says this:

Histogram of author counts:
 [0, 2825, 2187, 1227, 975, 565, 307, 112, 56, 25, 14, 3, 2, 2, 5, 3, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]

I didn't look for 'ed.' and there are authors like 'Network Information Center. Stanford Research Institute.'
and 'IAB, IESG'. Maybe they shouldn't count. However, they are far fewer than 5085, which is completely bogus.

The winner is RFC 2989 with 28 authors. Runner-up, RFC 3141 with 23.

    Brian

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