Brian E Carpenter wrote:
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.
I have to agree. Going back to the numbers I posted to NEWTRK in March:
Status 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
-------------------------------------------------------------
PS 102 119 71 105 103 131 169
This represents a tremendous amount of work by many people. And so
while I *do* believe we have process problems, they are largely of the
form that we are not actually following our documented process. I also
believe that we need to be more nimble when it comes to changing our
processes. I would like to see both of those problems corrected in due
course.
I have not done the work to review velocity from -00 to RFC, but perhaps
Bill Fenner has.
Eliot
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