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

In regards to: '3 standards a year' remark?
Please see 'these remarks' on;
'San Francisco Digital Inclusion Strategy'
http://leftinsf.com/blog/index/php/archives/1174
And my remark is why not a 'standard'...for Three Years? (PROTO-TYPE)

>From: Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>
>To: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>
>CC: ietf@ietf.org
>Subject: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant 
>the IETF embrace an open Election Process]
>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:09:22 +0200
>
>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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