Thanks. gee whiz, that was a bunch of work for me. You had a tool?
arg...
:-)
On Jul 14, 2006, at 11:33 PM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
Hi Fred,
on 2006-07-14 22:45 Fred Baker said the following:
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Assumption: the "we" in question is folks who post internet drafts.
Attendance at an IETF meeting or being on the mailing list doesn't
qualify for consideration here.
Criticism: there are SO many ways to approach that one. This is the
assumption I made for this analysis. So there.
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More data on this:
http://www.arkko.com/tools/authorstats.html
and a subsidiary page listing authors of active drafts
by region (Note that since drafts can have multiple
authors, the sum of the following percentages are more
than 100%),
http://www.arkko.com/tools/stats/d-contdistr.html:
# 1523 drafts (73.08%) have authors from North America.
# 1116 drafts (53.55%) have authors from Europe.
# 417 drafts (20.01%) have authors from Asia.
# 33 drafts (1.58%) have authors from Australia.
# 9 drafts (0.43%) have authors from South America.
# 3 drafts (0.14%) have authors from Africa.
# 1 drafts (0.05%) have authors from OTHER.
and by country:
http://www.arkko.com/tools/stats/d-countrydistr.html:
...
# 1395 drafts (66.94%) have authors from Usa.
# 218 drafts (10.46%) have authors from Germany.
# 196 drafts (9.40%) have authors from United kingdom.
# 170 drafts (8.16%) have authors from Finland.
# 163 drafts (7.82%) have authors from France.
# 151 drafts (7.25%) have authors from Japan.
# 128 drafts (6.14%) have authors from Canada.
# 83 drafts (3.98%) have authors from Sweden.
# 81 drafts (3.89%) have authors from China.
# 70 drafts (3.36%) have authors from South korea.
# 61 drafts (2.93%) have authors from Belgium.
# 53 drafts (2.54%) have authors from Israel.
# 41 drafts (1.97%) have authors from Spain.
# 41 drafts (1.97%) have authors from India.
# 38 drafts (1.82%) have authors from Italy.
# 36 drafts (1.73%) have authors from Switzerland.
# 29 drafts (1.39%) have authors from Australia.
# 21 drafts (1.01%) have authors from The netherlands.
# 19 drafts (0.91%) have authors from Norway.
# 17 drafts (0.82%) have authors from Austria.
# 11 drafts (0.53%) have authors from Ireland.
# 10 drafts (0.48%) have authors from Hungary.
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