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Christian Nennemann d6beb9c0a0 v0.3.0: Gap-to-Draft pipeline, Living Standards Observatory, blog series
Gap-to-Draft Pipeline (ietf pipeline):
- Context builder assembles ideas, RFC foundations, similar drafts, ecosystem vision
- Generator produces outlines + sections using rich context with Claude
- Quality gates: novelty (embedding similarity), references, format, self-rating
- Family coordinator generates 5-draft ecosystem (AEM/ATD/HITL/AEPB/APAE)
- I-D formatter with proper headers, references, 72-char wrapping

Living Standards Observatory (ietf observatory):
- Source abstraction with IETF + W3C fetchers
- 7-step update pipeline: snapshot, fetch, analyze, embed, ideas, gaps, record
- Static GitHub Pages dashboard (explorer, gap tracker, timeline)
- Weekly CI/CD automation via GitHub Actions

Also includes:
- 361 drafts (expanded from 260 with 6 new keywords), 403 authors, 1,262 ideas, 12 gaps
- Blog series (8 posts planned), reports, arXiv paper figures
- Agent team infrastructure (CLAUDE.md, scripts, dev journal)
- 5 new DB tables, schema migration, ~15 new query methods

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-04 00:48:57 +01:00

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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