Re: Workload constants [was I-D Action: draft-rsalz-termlimits-00.txt]

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Thu, 21 October 2021 22:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: Workload constants [was I-D Action: draft-rsalz-termlimits-00.txt]
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, Barry Leiba <barryleiba=40computer.org@dmarc.ietf.org>
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From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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On 10/21/21 5:07 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Why do we publish about 300 RFCs per year, rather than (say) 100 or 500?

Is the relevance of a typical IETF RFC going up or down?  (I suspect the 
latter, but I'd love to have a reason to believe we're getting more 
relevant over time)

My impression is that the amount of work and time to produce an RFC 
stays about the same over time, or maybe increases.   If the relevance 
of a typical RFC is decreasing, we may be wasting a lot of effort.

Keith