On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 05:27:07PM +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote: > I think, more generally, there should be some support for the -latest > convention (e.g., in idnits, or in xml2rfc that is currently spewing a > warning). I think it is a good thing to have an explicit action for > actually spending a number. (But the number of times I got that > specific number wrong, only to be reminded by idnits, is amazing.) -next would be nice -- all we need is a bibxml reference for -current and then the renderer can lookup what the previous -XY was and just + 1.