[Bigbang-dev] Testing inductively derived working group/org categories

[Sebastian Benthall]

I understand that there is a mix of working groups and affiliations here.

These groupings were created by:
 - building the network of affiliations and working groups
 - using a generic network modularity algorithm to partition the network
 - pick the top N members of each partition based on centrality

So what I was hoping was that the groupings would have some meaning in
terms of which affiliations and organizations were most closely associated.

If the method worked, it would uncover latent structure. For example,
Microsoft and IBM are connected with each other through ipsecme. Whereas
Nokia and Ericsson are associated though their connections to ops.

If nothing is popping out when the data is modelled like this, then I'll
try something else. This was a cheap exploratory method.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 5:26 AM Niels ten Oever <mail at nielstenoever.net> wrote:

> Hi Seb,
>
> This is meaningful. It is a mix of affiliations/institutions and working
> groups and areas (the parts of the IETF working groups belong to). Would
> you like me to categorize which are which? One way to clean this up would
> be to take a list of all workinggroups (same names as mailinglists!) and
> subtract that from this corpus.
>
> Happy to discuss!
>
> Best,
>
> Niels
>
> On 02-03-2021 22:49, Sebastian Benthall wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > - Seb
> >
> >
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