Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

Phill,

> As a result the IETF is a standards body with 2000 active participants that produces on average less than 3 standards a year
> and typically takes ten years to produce even a specification.

It is well understood that the Internet mainly runs on Proposed Standards,
so the appropriate metric is how many Proposed Standards the IETF produces
a year. I think you will find that is more than three.

We are certainly slower than we should be, but I think you will find that
the typical time from a 00 draft to a Proposed Standard is significantly
less than ten years.

Let's see - HTTP/1.1 was published as Proposed Standard in January 1997,
and draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-00.txt was posted in November 1995.

    Brian

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