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Double-counting of references for STD/BCP #3490

Open ietf-svn-bot opened 2 years ago

ietf-svn-bot commented 2 years ago

type_defect | by mt@lowentropy.net

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7761/referencedby/ is STD 83. Pages that list the number of RFCs that reference it seem to count the number of entries on this page rather than the number of unique references.

Search for "RFC " and you will find 43, with one being "RFC Editor". But all the citations are to STD 83, so the references appear twice. The true number is 21, as the citation is being counted twice for each.

Take RFC 5646, which is BCP 47. That lists 179 citations on https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Addison%20Phillips but the true number is lower as there are several of them double-counted.

Issue migrated from trac:3490 at 2022-03-04 09:22:32 +0000

ietf-svn-bot commented 2 years ago

@rjsparks@nostrum.com changed priority from n/a to major

ietf-svn-bot commented 2 years ago

@rjsparks@nostrum.com _changed status from new to under_review_

ietf-svn-bot commented 2 years ago

@rjsparks@nostrum.com commented

A major issue here is that BCPs are not always single RFCs.

The thing to work out is when document foo references document bar as both an RFC and a BCP (or other subseries identifier), foo is counted only once when counting references to bar.