At Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:06:43 -0500, John C Klensin wrote: > > > > --On Thursday, 07 February, 2008 09:28 +0200 > Pasi.Eronen@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > John C Klensin wrote: > > > >> For the second, it claims that the file isn't "plain text" and > >> won't post it or even provide a manual submission path. The > >> file is output or xml2rfc, has proper CRLF line endings, and, > >> if it contains any non-ASCII characters or serious format > >> misbehavior, the online version of idnits can't find it, even > >> in very verbose mode. [rt.amsl.com #1799] > > > > I also encountered this problem (rt.amsl.com #1730), and after > > some debugging, discovered what the problem was: the > > submission tool uses the "file" program to check whether the > > file is plain text or not, and (apparently) the "file" program > > on the new servers behaves slightly differently from the old > > one. > > > > In particular, if you have the string "(if approved)" on your > > cover page, some versions of "file" (at least some Linux > > distributions) will identify your draft as "Lisp/Scheme > > program text" instead of just ASCII :-) > > <obscenity/> > > So we get a choice of either > > * Not getting drafts posted or > > * Violating the IESG's instructions about how I-Ds that > are intended for standards track are laid out. > > Gee. > > Ray, while meeting site choices are ultimately judgment calls > and about tradeoffs, this is unambiguously preventing work from > getting done. Today is Thursday and we've got a posting cutoff > a week from Monday. It's also worth noting that manually posted drafts (which is what I fell back to after running into this bug) do not appear to be showing up especially fast. draft-ietf-tls-rfc4346bis-09 was submitted after COB on Mon and isn't in the repository yet. Obviously, it's not a disaster if drafts which are postd through exceptional paths take 2+ days to show up, but if that's going to be the normal path, that's a little less attractive. -Ekr _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf