[CFRG] Re: Where should test vectors live?

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2024-09-20, at 13:47, Björn Haase <bjoern.haase=[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> I did not find off-the-shelf tools for decoding that don't rely on the specific bash script. 

Hi Björn,

this is useful information.

I believe this is best addressed by adding a web page that allows access to extracted <sourcecode snippets (after any RFC 8792 decoding, if that happens to apply) from existing RFC and I-D documents (specifically their XML form, as extracting from the plain text form cannot ever be fully reliable).

It may also be useful to provide a CLI tool (*) that does exactly RFC 8792 decoding and nothing else.  I didn’t see a use case because the need for that decoding only ever arises in the context of extracting <sourcecode snippets from a document, so I made it part of that, but maybe people feel more comfortable with integrating a “do one thing well” tool into their workflows.

Grüße, Carsten

(*) FYI the actual decoding is approximately 29 LOC in my implementation; need to add CLI parsing and file handling.