Re: Change in I-D announcement format

[[e-mail] (Martin Rex)]

> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> 
>> Did I miss an announcement of the change in format of
>> I-D announcement messages?
>> 
>> There's no longer a URL for the standard .txt format.
>> That's mildly annoying for me (extra time and extra mouse clicks)
>> and must be a nuisance for anyone who processes these
>> messages automatically.

I did not see an announcement either.

I don't mind addition of URLs.  But I strongly dislike removal of URLs!
I would also appreciate if that URL was put back in.

After noticing download failures due to the lack of the URL to the TXT,
I changed my I-D download perl-script on 11-Jun-2012 to accomodate for that
unexpected change.  Since the URL is gone, I have resorted to synthesize
the URL to the TXT document myself from the unqualified filename.

   if ( $_ =~ m/^\s+Filename\s+:\s+(draft-.*\d\d\.txt)/ ) {
        push(@link, "http://tools.ietf.org/id/$1");
   }


Additionally, for some time now, I'm seeing errors trying to download
I-D TXT documents which have been superseded by a successor version
_before_ I feed the announcement EMail to my download script.

What is the purpose of the change to deny previous TXT versions of I-Ds?


Yoav Nir wrote:
> This line is not too hot either:
> 
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/submission.filename }}-01 

This puzzles me too.

How about adding a mailto: URL into I-D announcements to
report bugs for the software that creates them?

-Martin