Title
Organization of Internet Standards
Abstract
In this study we look at a body of standards documents in RFCs(Request For Comments) of IETF(Internet Engineering Task Force). The cross references between these documents form a network. Approaches from social network analysis are deployed to assess centrality of artifacts in this network and identify cohesive subgroups and levels of cohesion. Our results demonstrate major groups centered around key standard tracks, and application of network metrics reflect different levels of cohesion for these groups. As application of these techniques in such domains is unusual, possible uses in open source projects for strategizing are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/0-387-34226-5_27
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
social network analysis,request for comments
Reserved IP addresses,Internet Draft,World Wide Web,Request for Comments,Computer science,Social network analysis,Centrality,Internet Architecture Board,Internet Standard,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
203
1571-5736
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mehmet Gençer172.10
Beyza Oba271.63
Bülent Özel331.43
Vehbi Sinan Tunalioglu421.20