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IETF Research Questions

Nick Doty edited this page Mar 16, 2018 · 8 revisions

Research questions of interest for IETF101 Hackathon hacking

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  • how many participants total in IETF work?
  • how "sticky" is participation?
    • what's the attrition rate?
    • what's the distribution of length of participation?
  • who has participated longest? across the most groups?
    • is there a core across working groups?
    • how many groups does the typical participant join?
  • How does participation look like per affiliation?

  • How did participation per affiliation and affiliate category develop over time?

  • What is the relationship between mailinglist participation and RFC authors

  • How do certain topical words move between mailinglist, are there central nodes for this?

  • What are 'trending topics' for X period

  • What is the gender distribution of participants?
  • Does the gender distribution of conversation differ from the gender distribution of the participants?