(moving discussion to tools-discuss) Ole > On 29/06/2021, at 6:36 AM, Ole Jacobsen <olejacobsen=40me.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Several years ago, Henrik set up this wonderful tool that creates citations for > IETF documents (IDs and RFCs) in a standard format. The tool is customizable > and lives here: > > https://tools.ietf.org/tools/citation/ > > Enter, for example, "7575" in the box and you get: > > Clemm, A., Behringer, M., Jiang, S., Pritikin, M., Ciavaglia, L., Bjarnason, S., and B. Carpenter, > "Autonomic Networking: Definitions and Design Goals," RFC 7575, June 2015. > > It's something I use often to get a consistent list of references in > articles. > > But, sadly, something is currently broken with this tool, or I suspect something has > changed in the back-end (datatracker or tools?) whereby recent RFCs are not recognized, > for example: RFC 8890 gives me: "Could not find author data for document 'rfc8990'" > > And worse: RFC 8995 returns: "An error occurred at this point in the web-page generation. > An error report has been sent to the webmaster. If this error isn't fixed within 48 hours, > please contact the web page author directly at webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx." > > I know Henrik is probably no longer maintaining this tool so I am not blaming him > or expecting him to fix it, but perhaps someone from the tools/datatracker group could > take a look at this? It really is a VERY nice tool and I would hate to see it disabled > forever. > > Thanks in advance! An RFP was recently awarded [1] for a replacement for the citation library generation and access (API and web page) tool. Unfortunately, when writing that RFP I didn’t know about this specific tool and so it is not listed as a deliverable. However, it should be relatively straightforward to add simple output of this format, though a fully programmable output format is more complex and I’m not sure it is necessary. Do you use that programmable output functionality? Jay [1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/XPvRg0vSCWUBaSxtX1jSVtsNb3I/ > > Ole > > > Ole J. Jacobsen > Editor and Publisher > The Internet Protocol Journal > Office: +1 415-550-9433 > Cell: +1 415-370-4628 > Web: protocoljournal.org > E-mail: olejacobsen@xxxxxx > E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Skype: organdemo > > -- Jay Daley IETF Executive Director jay@xxxxxxxx
