The Document Citation Tool is (somewhat) broken

[Ole Jacobsen <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Several years ago, Henrik set up this wonderful tool that creates citations for
IETF documents (IDs and RFCs) in a standard format. The tool is customizable
and lives here:

https://tools.ietf.org/tools/citation/ <https://tools.ietf.org/tools/citation/>

Enter, for example, "7575" in the box and you get:

Clemm, A., Behringer, M., Jiang, S., Pritikin, M., Ciavaglia, L., Bjarnason, S., and B. Carpenter,
"Autonomic Networking: Definitions and Design Goals," RFC 7575, June 2015.

It's something I use often to get a consistent list of references in
articles.

But, sadly, something is currently broken with this tool, or I suspect something has
changed in the back-end (datatracker or tools?) whereby recent RFCs are not recognized,
for example: RFC 8890 gives me: "Could not find author data for document 'rfc8990'"

And worse: RFC 8995 returns: "An error occurred at this point in the web-page generation.
An error report has been sent to the webmaster. If this error isn't fixed within 48 hours,
please contact the web page author directly at [e-mail]."

I know Henrik is probably no longer maintaining this tool so I am not blaming him
or expecting him to fix it, but perhaps someone from the tools/datatracker group could
take a look at this? It really is a VERY nice tool and I would hate to see it disabled
forever.

Thanks in advance!

Ole


Ole J. Jacobsen
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