[Tools-discuss] Re: Rate of new WG and BoF's?
Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 27 October 2025 19:27 UTC
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Hi Greg,
Those are nice summaries. Adding "BOFs held" would be even better (and could be retrofitted).
e.g. for 2024:
15 BOFs held
11 new WGs
13 concluded WGs
Regards/Ngā mihi
Brian Carpenter
On 28-Oct-25 05:56, Greg Wood wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> In case it is useful, we have year-end WG info for the last few years:
>
> https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2024/ <https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2024/>
> https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2023/ <https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2023/>
> https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2022/ <https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-snapshot-2022/>
>
> -Greg
>
>> On Oct 27, 2025, at 10:11, Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is something that we want to end up on a dashboard in the long run.
>>
>> At the moment, there is this page at the datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/iesg/ietf-activity/.
>>
>> RjS
>>
>> On 10/27/25 8:55 AM, Salz, Rich wrote:
>>> Is there any easy way to see how many new WGs are created, how many closed, and how many BoFs?
>>>
>>> Any time unit would be fine: per-meeting, per year, etc.
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- [Tools-discuss] Rate of new WG and BoF's? Salz, Rich
- [Tools-discuss] Re: Rate of new WG and BoF's? Robert Sparks
- [Tools-discuss] Re: Rate of new WG and BoF's? Greg Wood
- [Tools-discuss] Re: Rate of new WG and BoF's? Brian E Carpenter