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Re: [rfc-i] [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Mon, 26 October 2020 22:14 UTC

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:14:26 +0100
From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net>
Cc: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>, WG Chairs <wgchairs@ietf.org>, RFC Interest <rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc-i] [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences
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Wes: Obviously, you can not use such a random point of
reference. This is like oh, Fahrenheit operated to find 0. And how
the heck could you go for something from a German anyhow
(and keep it for hundreds of years unchanged).

Obviouosly the point of reference needs to be a universal constants
of the IETF universe. Hence the size of documents needs to be measured
relative to rfc8200.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 02:53:46PM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> writes:
> 
> > I also liked to collect stats on documents that I review -- e.g:
> > (7,635 pages, ~31" / 79cm / 15 reams of single-sided paper).
> > Gamifying reviews makes them easier...
> 
> I suggest a new metric instead to measure length: the "PoN".
> 
> 1 PoN = the length of our largest RFC to date (where today becomes the
> equivalent of Jan 1, 1970 is for seconds): RFC8881 (NFS version 4 minor
> version 1 protocol) in txt format.  Thus, 1 PoN = 1593486 octets or
> 31832 lines.
> 
> Then we can measure the length of any other document based on this
> length.  Thus, RFC3514 ("The Security Flag in the IPv4
> Header."), which is 11211 octets or 339 lines becomes ".0070:.0106 PoN".
> -- 
> Wes Hardaker
> USC/ISI
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