# Draft Revision Velocity Report *Generated 2026-03-03 20:12 UTC — 361 drafts analyzed* ## Overview - **Average revision**: 2.21 - **At -00** (first draft only): **198** (54.8%) - **Iterated** (rev >= 01): **163** (45.2%) - **Highly iterated** (rev >= 05): **40** ## Revision Distribution | Revision | Count | % | |:---------|------:|--:| | -00 | 198 | 54.8% | | -01 | 72 | 19.9% | | -02 | 27 | 7.5% | | -03 | 11 | 3.0% | | -04 | 13 | 3.6% | | -05 | 7 | 1.9% | | -06 | 7 | 1.9% | | -07 | 5 | 1.4% | | -08 | 1 | 0.3% | | -09 | 4 | 1.1% | | -10 | 2 | 0.6% | | -11 | 1 | 0.3% | | -13 | 1 | 0.3% | | -15 | 1 | 0.3% | | -16 | 1 | 0.3% | | -17 | 1 | 0.3% | | -22 | 1 | 0.3% | | -23 | 2 | 0.6% | | -26 | 1 | 0.3% | | -30 | 1 | 0.3% | | -32 | 1 | 0.3% | | -57 | 1 | 0.3% | | -60 | 1 | 0.3% | | -67 | 1 | 0.3% | ## Revision Velocity by Organization (>= 3 drafts) | # | Organization | Drafts | Avg Rev | At -00 | %-00 | Iterated | Max | |--:|:-------------|-------:|--------:|-------:|-----:|---------:|----:| | 1 | Huawei | 67 | 1.04 | 38 | 57% | 29 | 15 | | 2 | China Mobile | 35 | 0.97 | 17 | 49% | 18 | 5 | | 3 | Cisco | 25 | 5.52 | 13 | 52% | 12 | 57 | | 4 | China Telecom | 24 | 0.96 | 15 | 62% | 9 | 6 | | 5 | China Unicom | 22 | 0.86 | 12 | 55% | 10 | 3 | | 6 | Independent | 18 | 0.56 | 12 | 67% | 6 | 3 | | 7 | Tsinghua University | 16 | 0.44 | 10 | 62% | 6 | 2 | | 8 | Telefonica | 13 | 1.77 | 6 | 46% | 7 | 6 | | 9 | ZTE Corporation | 12 | 1.67 | 4 | 33% | 8 | 5 | | 10 | Google | 11 | 3.55 | 5 | 45% | 6 | 22 | | 11 | Pengcheng Laboratory | 10 | 0.10 | 9 | 90% | 1 | 1 | | 12 | Five9 | 10 | 0.10 | 9 | 90% | 1 | 1 | | 13 | Ericsson | 9 | 4.78 | 1 | 11% | 8 | 9 | | 14 | BUPT | 7 | 1.14 | 3 | 43% | 4 | 3 | | 15 | Amazon | 7 | 7.00 | 2 | 29% | 5 | 30 | | 16 | Futurewei | 7 | 2.71 | 3 | 43% | 4 | 13 | | 17 | Sandelman Software Works | 7 | 14.29 | 1 | 14% | 6 | 30 | | 18 | Zhongguancun Laboratory | 6 | 0.67 | 2 | 33% | 4 | 1 | | 19 | CAICT | 6 | 1.67 | 3 | 50% | 3 | 5 | | 20 | Inria | 6 | 4.33 | 1 | 17% | 5 | 9 | | 21 | Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School & Pengcheng Laboratory | 6 | 0.17 | 5 | 83% | 1 | 1 | | 22 | Deutsche Telekom | 6 | 0.67 | 4 | 67% | 2 | 2 | | 23 | Bitwave | 6 | 0.17 | 5 | 83% | 1 | 1 | | 24 | Boeing | 6 | 28.17 | 0 | 0% | 6 | 67 | | 25 | Nokia | 5 | 3.20 | 1 | 20% | 4 | 9 | | 26 | InterDigital Europe | 5 | 0.80 | 3 | 60% | 2 | 3 | | 27 | InterDigital | 5 | 1.60 | 3 | 60% | 2 | 5 | | 28 | RISE | 5 | 5.20 | 1 | 20% | 4 | 9 | | 29 | Siemens | 5 | 17.20 | 0 | 0% | 5 | 26 | | 30 | Department of Computer Science & Engineering | 4 | 1.50 | 1 | 25% | 3 | 4 | | 31 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | 4 | 0.25 | 3 | 75% | 1 | 1 | | 32 | Apple | 4 | 7.25 | 0 | 0% | 4 | 22 | | 33 | Daejeon University | 4 | 3.25 | 0 | 0% | 4 | 7 | | 34 | Mozilla | 4 | 2.25 | 2 | 50% | 2 | 5 | | 35 | ISI, R.C. ATHENA | 4 | 0.75 | 1 | 25% | 3 | 1 | | 36 | Aiiva.org | 3 | 0.00 | 3 | 100% | 0 | 0 | | 37 | DONG-EUI University | 3 | 3.33 | 0 | 0% | 3 | 7 | | 38 | DistributedApps.ai | 3 | 0.00 | 3 | 100% | 0 | 0 | | 39 | lispers.net | 3 | 25.67 | 0 | 0% | 3 | 57 | | 40 | Cloudflare | 3 | 1.67 | 1 | 33% | 2 | 4 | | 41 | Infoblox, Inc. | 3 | 0.00 | 3 | 100% | 0 | 0 | | 42 | IBM | 3 | 3.33 | 1 | 33% | 2 | 6 | | 43 | CNIC, CAS | 3 | 0.00 | 3 | 100% | 0 | 0 | | 44 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 3 | 1.67 | 1 | 33% | 2 | 4 | ## Fire-and-Forget Organizations (>= 70% at -00, >= 5 drafts) Organizations that submit many drafts but rarely iterate: - **Pengcheng Laboratory**: 9/10 at -00 (90%), avg rev 0.10 - **Five9**: 9/10 at -00 (90%), avg rev 0.10 - **Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School & Pengcheng Laboratory**: 5/6 at -00 (83%), avg rev 0.17 - **Bitwave**: 5/6 at -00 (83%), avg rev 0.17 ## Active Iterators (avg revision >= 3.0) Organizations that actively revise and improve their drafts: - **Boeing**: avg rev 28.2, max -67, 6 drafts - **lispers.net**: avg rev 25.7, max -57, 3 drafts - **Siemens**: avg rev 17.2, max -26, 5 drafts - **Sandelman Software Works**: avg rev 14.3, max -30, 7 drafts - **Apple**: avg rev 7.2, max -22, 4 drafts - **Amazon**: avg rev 7.0, max -30, 7 drafts - **Cisco**: avg rev 5.5, max -57, 25 drafts - **RISE**: avg rev 5.2, max -09, 5 drafts - **Ericsson**: avg rev 4.8, max -09, 9 drafts - **Inria**: avg rev 4.3, max -09, 6 drafts - **Google**: avg rev 3.5, max -22, 11 drafts - **DONG-EUI University**: avg rev 3.3, max -07, 3 drafts - **IBM**: avg rev 3.3, max -06, 3 drafts - **Daejeon University**: avg rev 3.2, max -07, 4 drafts - **Nokia**: avg rev 3.2, max -09, 5 drafts ## Most-Revised Drafts (Top 20) | # | Rev | Name | Title | |--:|----:|:-----|:------| | 1 | -67 | draft-templin-intarea-aero | Automatic Extended Route Optimization (AERO) | | 2 | -60 | draft-templin-6man-aero3 | Automatic Extended Route Optimization (AERO) | | 3 | -57 | draft-ietf-lisp-nexagon | Geo-Intelligence Network Based On H3 and LISP | | 4 | -32 | draft-templin-6man-mla | IPv6 Addresses for Ad Hoc Networks | | 5 | -30 | draft-ietf-anima-constrained-voucher | Constrained Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infras | | 6 | -26 | draft-ietf-suit-firmware-encryption | Encrypted Payloads in SUIT Manifests | | 7 | -23 | draft-ietf-anima-brski-prm | BRSKI with Pledge in Responder Mode (BRSKI-PRM) | | 8 | -23 | draft-ietf-lamps-rfc7030-csrattrs | Clarification and enhancement of RFC7030 CSR Attri | | 9 | -22 | draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc6265bis | Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism | | 10 | -17 | draft-ietf-lamps-e2e-mail-guidance | Guidance on End-to-End E-mail Security | | 11 | -16 | draft-ietf-sshm-ssh-agent | SSH Agent Protocol | | 12 | -15 | draft-ietf-roll-enrollment-priority | Controlling Secure Network Enrollment in RPL netwo | | 13 | -13 | draft-ietf-pim-zeroconf-mcast-addr-alloc-ps | Zeroconf Multicast Address Allocation Problem Stat | | 14 | -11 | draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5274bis | Certificate Management Messages over CMS (CMC): Co | | 15 | -10 | draft-bradleylundberg-cfrg-arkg | The Asynchronous Remote Key Generation (ARKG) algo | | 16 | -10 | draft-ietf-sshm-mlkem-hybrid-kex | PQ/T Hybrid Key Exchange with ML-KEM in SSH | | 17 | -09 | draft-ietf-ace-coap-est-oscore | Protecting EST Payloads with OSCORE | | 18 | -09 | draft-ietf-lamps-private-key-stmt-attr | An Attribute for Statement of Possession of a Priv | | 19 | -09 | draft-ietf-ace-edhoc-oscore-profile | Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) and Obj | | 20 | -09 | draft-ietf-tls-extended-key-update | Extended Key Update for Transport Layer Security ( | ## Score Comparison: Iterated vs First-Draft | Metric | Iterated (rev > 00) | First-Draft (rev 00) | |--------|--------------------:|---------------------:| | Count | 163 | 198 | | Average Score | 3.31 | 3.36 | | Max Score | 4.65 | 4.85 |