Re: [apps-discuss] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC7386 (4132)

[t.petch <[e-mail]>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Reschke" <[e-mail]>
To: "Carsten Bormann" <[e-mail]>; "Manger, James"
<[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>; "RSE" <[e-mail]>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 7:27 AM
> On 2014-10-16 01:16, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> > On 16 Oct 2014, at 01:06, Manger, James
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> >> P.S. Curiously, the "Diff2" format on tools.ietf.org
[https://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=rfc7386] shows the indentation as
being correct in rfc7386.txt and draft-ietf-appsawg-json-merge-patch-07.
Probably a tools glitch.
> >
> > This looks like the canonical tab-width confusion.
> > The correct text had a tab-width of 8, but the RFC text was
converted to spaces applying a tab-width of 4.
> >
> > Yep, the copy of rfc7386.xml I have has been tabified, while
draft-ietf-appsawg-json-merge-patch-07.xml is clean.
> >
> > NEVER, EVER, tabify documents.
> > THROW OUT ALL TOOLS THAT DO THIS.
> > (Sorry for shouting, but this TAB nonsense has cost too much time in
my life already.)
> > ...
>
> For the record, I see at least two RFCs in AUTH48 with HTAB
characters:
> RFC 7390 and 7391 (reminder: there's an Atom feed with validation
> results: <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc/xml2rfc/rfcdiags.atom>).

This scratches my itch.

A long time ago, I downloaded RFC2328 (OSPF v2) but found that any
utility I used to view it produced a mess, hard to use in any way.  I
eventually looked at the binary and found that it was riddled with tab
characters.  I downloaded it several times from different sites, using
FTP, with the same result.  I tried all the combinations I could think
of for tab settings to no avail.  (Interestingly, using IE now to access
the
web site gives a reasonable display).

I eventually gave up (on OSPF that is:-)

I notice that the last modified date for this RFC is 1998 on the web
site so things would appear not to have changed.  Well, RFCs are never
changed no matter what:-(

Tom Petch

> Best regards, Julian
>