[Tools-discuss] new tool: rfc-what-i-mean

[Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU>]

Hi, all,

I was recently reviewing a number of documents that had long lists of
RFCs, and noticed that some were obsoleted, while others' updates were
not included.

I've written a tool, called 'rfc-what-i-mean' (see what I mean? ;-),
that does the following:

	input:	arbitrary text with RFCs inside of the form
	/(rfc|Rfc|RFC)(\-)?\d+/, and spits out two lists:

	1) for each RFC that has updates or is obsoleted,
	   lists the correct set to cite

	2) does a "sort -u" on the total set of RFCs cited, so
	   that using the final list should be "what you meant"

The tool is available at www.isi.edu/touch/tools in perl, and that page
includes a web interface that, given a text input, outputs "what you meant".

Feel free to link it off the tools page if desired.

FYI.

Joe

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