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Description
In this HotRFC talk, we briefly outline our recent IMC paper, "Characterising the IETF Through the Lens of RFC Deployment". More details, including a link to the full paper, and information about the project, can be found at https://sodestream.github.io.
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In
essence,
we
want
to
find
out
what
the
features
are
of
rfcs
like
rfc
2741,
that
mean
it
sees
widespread
deployment,
while
others
like
rfc
1209,
do
not
understanding
these
differences
is
important,
especially
as
the
ietf
matures
as
we'll
show.
The
standardization
process
has
become
more
complex
and
time-consuming
and
having
a
coherent
understanding
of
the
itfs
activities
might
help
to
manage
this
complexity.
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Huawei,
for
example,
appears
in
2005,
and
seven
percent
of
authors
came
from
the
company
in
2020
and
while
we
can
see
the
ebb
and
flow
of
different
companies,
the
authorship
pool
has
grown
less
diverse.
Overall
35.4
percent
of
authors
came
from
the
top
10
affiliations
in
2020,
compared
with
25.6
in
2001..
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Now
feeding
all
of
these
features
into
our
model.
We
found
that
features
such
as
adding
value
and
being
scalable
that
were
explored
in
the
prior
work
and
our
additional
features,
such
as
citation
and
keyword
counts,
are
positively
correlated
with
deployment
further,
while
our
data
set
has
limitations,
we
find
that
author
demographic
features
like
location
and
affiliation
weren't
significant
predictors
of
deployment.
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In
summary,
we
found
a
vibrant
ietf
community,
albeit
one
with
a
number
of
key
challenges.
Rfc
publication
rates
are
slowing
and
rfcs
are
taking
longer
to
produce
in
terms
of
future
work.
We
plan
to
expand
the
data
sets
that
we
analyze
to
include
things
like
github,
which
is
seeing
increasing
use,
and
we
also
intend
to
use
our
findings
to
develop
targeted
interventions
that
might
improve
efficiency
of
the
standardization
process.