Indeed, the number Joe was counting was the number who filled out a registration form. Counting those who actually paid their registration yields closer numbers.
rbarnes$ for n in $(jot 15 73); do att=$(curl -s "https://www.ietf.org/registration/ietf${n}/attendance.py"; | grep -o ">Yes<" | wc -l); echo $n $att; done 73 969 74 1170 75 1102 76 1129 77 1242 78 1159 79 1144 80 1231 81 1127 82 948 83 1395 84 1199 85 1157 86 1115 87 1435 On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Adrian Farrel <adr...@olddog.co.uk> wrote: > Curiously these numbers do not match those at > https://www.ietf.org/meeting/past.html > > Registration, we may conclude, does not equate to attendance. > > Adrian > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > Joe > > Abley > > Sent: 08 October 2013 02:38 > > To: Ted Lemon > > Cc: divers...@ietf.org; IETF > > Subject: Re: year for highest number of IETF participants > > > > [krill:~]% for n in $(jot 15 73); do > > curl -s "https://www.ietf.org/registration/ietf${n}/attendance.py"; | \ > > awk -v n=${n} '/ registrations:/ { sub(/ registrations:.*$/, ""); > sub(/^.*\>/, ""); > > print n, $0; }' > > done > > 73 1111 > > 74 1332 > > 75 1230 > > 76 1249 > > 77 1350 > > 78 1304 > > 79 1337 > > 80 1317 > > 81 1244 > > 82 1051 > > 83 1529 > > 84 1356 > > 85 1351 > > 86 1223 > > 87 1585 > > [krill:~]% > >
