- From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:20:16 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, public-w3process <public-w3process@w3.org>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 14:04, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2012-03-22 14:57, Marcos Caceres wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 13:52, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > > > > > > OK; here's another data point. HTTPbis started as RFC 2616, split into > > > seven pieces. After the split was done, the modularization essentially > > > creates no overload at all, but makes maintenance much easier; in > > > particular with multiple authors working on different parts at the same > > > time. > > > > > > > > When did the work start? When is the estimated completion date? I guess we then compare that to start-end dates of RFC2616 itself? > > I don't think that's an interesting comparison; you would need to also > look at # of issues fixed, amount of discussion and research needed to > actually decide on each issue, and how much time each of the authors > could invest. True. As Facebook says, "it's complicated". > That being said; we started ~4 years ago, and 4 out of seven parts are > in Working Group Last Call. At the risk of killing the discussion, one (somewhat expensive) place to look for answers might be here: http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-standards-standardization-research/1077 Lots of papers on these subjects there (…science and paywalls… grrrrr!). -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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