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

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sat, 16 November 2019 06:40 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
cc: "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>, Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net>
Subject: Re: Thought experiment [Re: Quality of Directorate reviews]
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Comments: In-reply-to Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> message dated "Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:54:37 +0100."
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Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
    >> 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.  ...

    > Why exclusively?

There is a belief that documents which have authors that can travel to
meetings progress more easily than those that don't.
A document that has at least one author "shopping" the document around the
physical meeting could have five remote authors contributing.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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