[Tools-discuss] what metric replaces page-count?

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sun, 11 April 2021 20:11 UTC

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If RFCs won't be paginated, how will I know approximately how long a document is?
Our datatracker says the number of pages in the date column.
kilo-word-count?

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