there's nothing wrong with looking at aggregate data about working
groups'
production of RFCs. of course, one should be careful about conclusions.
And the authors do caution that their numbers are blind to the quality of
the RFCs. Their point, though, is that looking at the easy metrics is
better than not measuring anything at all; it gives a first-order
approximation. If someone then figures out how to refine that
approximation, then great.
The authors don't seem to make any substantive conclusions based on this
approximation. Instead, they looked at what they learned in the process
of gathering the data, and suggest improvements to WG charters to make it
possible to gather better data in the future (making the charter
machine-readable, and having it include a log of the events in the WG's
lifetime). Seems harmless to me. (Possibly too much work--I can't speak
to that--but harmless. :-)
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|John Stracke |Principal Engineer |
|jstracke(_at_)incentivesystems(_dot_)com |Incentive Systems, Inc. |
|http://www.incentivesystems.com |My opinions are my own. |
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