So I was looking at http://trac.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/wiki/WikiStart to check
the sdnssd BoF text, and was surprised to see a total of 15 proposed BoFs. That
seems to be something of a record?
That people are coming to the IETF with proposals to do work is probably a
healthy thing; it would be more worrying if there were no BoFs proposed. But if
all the proposals are accepted, and they all lead to WGs being formed, that's a
lot of new groups to be created, scheduled and supported.
In contrast, how many WGs have been closed in the past few months? I see
there's http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/concluded from which I can see there are
10 WGs listed there which seem to have closed this year:
iri 2013-01-19
imapmove 2013-01-31
csi 2013-02-12
sipclf 2013-02-20
bliss 2013-02-27
simple 2013-02-27
fecframe 2013-03-06
krb-wg 2013-03-19
eai 2013-03-19
6tch 2013-04-19
I wonder how the volume and lifetimes of WGs has changed over the years, e.g.
the number we have, how quickly they complete their work, etc. Has anyone been
looking at this?
Tim