Re: RFC and I-D Citation Tool

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Hi Ersue,

On 2012-07-31 13:27 Ersue, Mehmet (NSN - DE/Munich) said the following:
> 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.

There is no intentional name re-ordering.  I'll look into why that happens.

> Some of the citations appear to be incomplete, see RFC3410.

Ok, will check that too.

Thanks for the feedback!


Best regards,

	Henrik

> 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
> 
> 


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