Interesting. From 1998 on it looks like we go from 10% of ID’s becoming RFCs to
5%. A combination of having a typical RFC being published after draft-15, as
well as a ton of -00’s that go nowhere, perhaps?
On Sep 25, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <fred(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
wrote:
On Sep 25, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Melinda Shore
<melinda(_dot_)shore(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Do we have somewhere data on the number of drafts submitted per year?
Melinda
First place I’d ask is the RFC Editor. But...
Using the rsync archive at rsync.ietf.org...
I did an ls -lrt on the file of “all internet drafts since” someone started
recording them, and all RFCs. I’m not convince that the year they wound of in
the archive is the year in the index file, but I don’t feel like trying to
parse the index file. But doing that and then gripping for year numbers (and
noting that digit-digit-:-digit-digit is at the moment equivalent to “2014")
year drafts RFCs
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 2
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 1
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 22
1987 43
1988 43
1989 51
1990 0 59
1991 0 125
1992 140 368
1993 8 175
1994 210 183
1995 721 126
1996 1409 174
1997 1688 388
1998 2896 272
1999 2708 269
2000 3369 426
2001 4355 320
2002 4758 233
2003 4969 312
2004 4763 281
2005 4933 327
2006 5066 469
2007 4954 324
2008 5115 309
2009 5431 291
2010 6242 403
2011 6495 390
2012 6974 339
2013 6629 275
2014 1934 60
: 3211 216
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