Re: Thought experiment [Re: Quality of Directorate reviews]

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 08 November 2019 01:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: Thought experiment [Re: Quality of Directorate reviews]
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Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:
    >> My impression from the regular plenary reports on attendance my impression is
    > that the number of people involved in the IETF is declining, yet the number
    > of RFCs being processed is going up.

    > Attendance is perhaps declining, but I don't recall any discussion of
    > WG email traffic, for example.

So the number we need to know is what is the trend for RFCs being processed
by a set of authors who are exclusively remote.

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