Re: Data on internet drafts/year?

[Eric Burger <[e-mail]>]

Interesting. From 1998 on it looks like we go from 10% of ID’s becoming RFCs to 5%. A combination of having a typical RFC being published after draft-15, as well as a ton of -00’s that go nowhere, perhaps?

On Sep 25, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On Sep 25, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Melinda Shore <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Do we have somewhere data on the number of drafts submitted per year?
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>> Melinda
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> First place I’d ask is the RFC Editor. But...
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> Using the rsync archive at rsync.ietf.org...
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> I did an ls -lrt on the file of “all internet drafts since” someone started recording them, and all RFCs. I’m not convince that the year they wound of in the archive is the year in the index file, but I don’t feel like trying to parse the index file. But doing that and then gripping for year numbers (and noting that digit-digit-:-digit-digit is at the moment equivalent to “2014")
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> year    drafts  RFCs
> 1968		0
> 1969		0
> 1970		0
> 1971		0
> 1972		0
> 1973		0
> 1974		2
> 1975		0
> 1976		0
> 1977		0
> 1978		0
> 1979		0
> 1980		0
> 1981		1
> 1982		0
> 1983		0
> 1984		0
> 1985		0
> 1986		22
> 1987		43
> 1988		43
> 1989		51
> 1990	0	59
> 1991	0	125
> 1992	140	368
> 1993	8	175
> 1994	210	183
> 1995	721	126
> 1996	1409	174
> 1997	1688	388
> 1998	2896	272
> 1999	2708	269
> 2000	3369	426
> 2001	4355	320
> 2002	4758	233
> 2003	4969	312
> 2004	4763	281
> 2005	4933	327
> 2006	5066	469
> 2007	4954	324
> 2008	5115	309
> 2009	5431	291
> 2010	6242	403
> 2011	6495	390
> 2012	6974	339
> 2013	6629	275
> 2014	1934	60
> :	3211	216