Re: Documents with no authors

Doug Royer <douglasroyer@gmail.com> Fri, 23 November 2018 14:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: Documents with no authors
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On 11/23/18 3:29 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/stats/document/authors/
> 
> Why do such a high proportion of our documents (for example 1929 RFCs) 
> have no authors?

Well, RFC-1929 does have an author. So I am guessing the automated tools 
can not (or did not) parse the older text only documents.


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