There are a number of very weird entries that require special handling. I (also) wrote a Python script to convert the XML file to bibtex and had to deal with a number of these special cases. For example, RFC 4534 lists the authors as "A Colegrove, H Harney" instead of "A. Colegrove, H. Harney". Other names like "The Internet Society" require special handling. And I completely punted on proper capitalization of the titles; I just accept what's there. On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > > Mehmet, > > The tool is not INTENDED to change the author order. A somewhat > incomplete database can indeed lead to unexpected results, use with > caution. > > Ole > > Ole J. Jacobsen > Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal > Cisco Systems > Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 > E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj > Skype: organdemo > > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Ersue, Mehmet (NSN - DE/Munich) wrote: > >> Nice tool. >> >> However, I am wondering why the tool changes the order of the names. >> There is actually a reason why documents list names in a specific order. >> >> Some of the citations appear to be incomplete, see RFC3410. >> >> Cheers, >> Mehmet >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf >> Of ext Ole >>> Jacobsen >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:17 AM >>> To: The IETF >>> Cc: RSOC; Heather Flanagan; rsag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Subject: RFC and I-D Citation Tool >>> >>> >>> In The Internet Protocol Journal I have been using the following >>> citation format, best illustrated by an example: >>> >>> Julien Meuric, Diego Caviglia, Don Fedyk, Attila Takacs, and Lou >>> Berger, "GMPLS Asymmetric Bandwidth Bidirectional Label Switched >>> Paths (LSPs)," RFC 6387, September 2011. >>> >>> So, that's full author names "and" before the last author name, title, >>> document number and date, using the American "quotation outside >>> punctuation rule." >>> >>> I got tired of doing this "by hand" so I asked Henrik if he could >>> write me a tool. He did (THANKS!), and the result is here: >>> >>> http://tools.ietf.org/tools/citation/ >>> >>> This will take either the draft name or the RFC number as input and >>> produce a citation similar to the one above. You can of course play >>> with the elements and generate a format that suits your own taste, for >>> example, for I-Ds, in print it might be good to have the FILE NAME as >>> the last entry: >>> >>> Adam Langley, "Serializing DNS Records with DNSSEC Authentication," >>> Internet Draft, work in progress, July 2011, >>> draft-agl-dane-serializechain-01 >>> >>> ...since I like having filenames or URLs on one line (not wrapping) >>> as much as possible. >>> >>> Many thanks again to Henrik, and I hope you will find it useful too! >>> >>> Ole >>> >>> >>> >>> Ole J. Jacobsen >>> Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal >>> Cisco Systems >>> Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 >>> E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj >>> Skype: organdemo >> >> > --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb