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

[Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU>]

Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Nice one :-)
> 
> I've added a link here:
>   http://www1.tools.ietf.org/inventory/author-tools
> 
> I'm also tempted to at some point adding equivalent functionality
> to idnits, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon...

I want to do the same for drafts, but that'll take time as well.

Joe

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Henrik
> 
> on 2006-11-03 07:41 Joe Touch said the following:
>> 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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