count-rfcs

A simple python tool to identify the contributions to RFCs for any IETF participant. It currently classifies RFCs in the following categories, in declining order of priority:

• Listed as author

• Document Shepherd

• Responsible AD

• Acknowledged somewhere in the text

• Submitted an IESG ballot that contained text (COMMENT or DISCUSS)

• Any document where the attempt to retrieve from the rfc-editor or datatracker failed for some reason.

Change the parameters in the first code block, then just type

python3 count-rfcs.py

to run it.

These parameters also affect the speed at which things run. Every RFC that is not discarded due to being the wrong status, date, or area takes about 1 second to process, so if there are no filters whatsoever 10,000 RFC's will take ~3 hours.

Parameters:

• name: how the name would appear in the datatracker, or in an acknowledgements section (usually '[first name] [last name]')

• include_informational, include_experimental: set to False if you don't care about documents with this status

• include_acknowledgments: if True, the script will download and search the document itself to find your name

• first_year: the first year an RFC might have been published that the person affected (set to 1969 or earlier to disable)

• first_rfc: the earliest RFC number the person might have affected (set to 0000 to disable)

• last_rfc: skip over all RFC numbers beyond this (mostly useful for debugging)

• first_ad_year: the first year someone was an AD; before that year, the tool does not check if the person balloted on a draft. To disable, set it to a future year. Also, after first_ad_year the script ignores any limits on area, stream, or wg. Prior to first_ad_year, the script will process an RFC that matches ANY of the three lists below:

• streams: before first_ad_year, the tool will check any RFC from this stream

• areas: before first_ad_year, the tool will check any RFC from the areas listed here

• wgs: before first_ad_year, the tool will check any RFC from wgs listed here. 'NON' is a reserved word for non-working-group IETF stream documents; 'IESG' is a reserved word too