RE: RFC and I-D Citation Tool

[Ole Jacobsen <[e-mail]>]

Mehmet,

The tool is not INTENDED to change the author order. A somewhat 
incomplete database can indeed lead to unexpected results, use with 
caution.

Ole

Ole J. Jacobsen
Editor and Publisher,  The Internet Protocol Journal
Cisco Systems
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Ersue, Mehmet (NSN - DE/Munich) wrote:

> Nice tool. 
> 
> However, I am wondering why the tool changes the order of the names.
> There is actually a reason why documents list names in a specific order.
> 
> Some of the citations appear to be incomplete, see RFC3410.
> 
> Cheers, 
> Mehmet 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf
> Of ext Ole
> > Jacobsen
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:17 AM
> > To: The IETF
> > Cc: RSOC; Heather Flanagan; [e-mail]
> > Subject: RFC and I-D Citation Tool
> > 
> > 
> > In The Internet Protocol Journal I have been using the following
> > citation format, best illustrated by an example:
> > 
> >  Julien Meuric, Diego Caviglia, Don Fedyk, Attila Takacs, and Lou
> >  Berger, "GMPLS Asymmetric Bandwidth Bidirectional Label Switched
> >  Paths (LSPs)," RFC 6387, September 2011.
> > 
> > So, that's full author names "and" before the last author name, title,
> > document number and date, using the American "quotation outside
> > punctuation rule."
> > 
> > I got tired of doing this "by hand" so I asked Henrik if he could
> > write me a tool. He did (THANKS!), and the result is here:
> > 
> > http://tools.ietf.org/tools/citation/
> > 
> > This will take either the draft name or the RFC number as input and
> > produce a citation similar to the one above. You can of course play
> > with the elements and generate a format that suits your own taste, for
> > example, for I-Ds, in print it might be good to have the FILE NAME as
> > the last entry:
> > 
> >  Adam Langley, "Serializing DNS Records with DNSSEC Authentication,"
> >  Internet Draft, work in progress, July 2011,
> >  draft-agl-dane-serializechain-01
> > 
> > ...since I like having filenames or URLs on one line (not wrapping)
> > as much as possible.
> > 
> > Many thanks again to Henrik, and I hope you will find it useful too!
> > 
> > Ole
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Ole J. Jacobsen
> > Editor and Publisher,  The Internet Protocol Journal
> > Cisco Systems
> > Tel: [phone]   Mobile: [phone]
> > E-mail: [e-mail]  URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj
> > Skype: organdemo
> 
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