<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>As an experiment, I've tried to derive some inductive categories of working groups and organizations from the IETF data. If this works, it exposes some latent structure in how IETF is organized, in terms of the weight of certain organizations certain domains.</div><div><br></div><div>The following groups of words represent concentrations or clusterings in the network of associations between organizations and working groups. I wonder if somebody more involved in the domain work could tell me if they seem meaningful at all, or just noisy.</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;overflow:auto;font-size:14px;padding:1px 0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);word-break:break-all;border:0px;border-radius:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">Huawei, mpls, ccamp, idr, AT&T, Orange, 6man, ospf, Juniper Networks, grow
Google, dnsop, art, tls, ntp, VeriSign, Inc., lamps, oauth, dprive, kitten
Nokia, Ericsson, ops, tsv, roll, core, geopriv, ace, 6lo, mboned
app, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Apple Inc., Isode Ltd, fax, homenet, sieve, dkim, extra
Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent, cfrg, pwe3, snmpv3, sacm, ipfix, alto, uta, radius
sec, pkix, smime, rai, RSA Laboratories, httpbis, VPN Consortium, ipsec, appsawg, Axway
avt, mmusic, avtcore, payload, sipping, idmr, simple, stir, RTFM, Inc., NTT
icnrg, nwcrg, mptcp, lisp, 6tisch, University of Cambridge, manet, INRIA, gaia, nsis
v6ops, int, Intel, sidr, mip6, sidrops, Unaffiliated, Toshiba, impp, teep
tsvwg, tcpm, nfsv4, diffserv, University of Aberdeen, aqm, ipdvb, csi, rddp, rserpool
iab, trill, secsh, rtg, forces, dtnrg, Harvard University, isms, SPARTA, Inc., Trinity College Dublin
Independent, ecrit, ipp, Nortel Networks, magma, tictoc, entmib, mediactrl, Avaya, Hewlett-Packard
Microsoft, ipsecme, IBM, dnsext, intarea, hip, Dell EMC, storm, USC/ISI, btns
gen, sipcore, sip, Neustar, straw, Tekelec, SJD, Georgetown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Quobis
http, University of Tennessee, Netscape, 822ext, find, Xerox Corporation, Equinix, CERNET Center/Tsinghua, behave, asid</pre><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;overflow:auto;font-size:14px;padding:1px 0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);word-break:break-all;border:0px;border-radius:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"><br></pre><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;overflow:auto;font-size:14px;padding:1px 0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);word-break:break-all;border:0px;border-radius:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"><br></pre><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;overflow:auto;font-size:14px;padding:1px 0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);word-break:break-all;border:0px;border-radius:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">- Seb</pre></div></div>