Re: RFC and I-D Citation Tool

Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca> Tue, 31 July 2012 18:17 UTC

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cool!!!  I will also be using this! thanks!

Marc.

Le 2012-07-31 à 11:16, Ole Jacobsen a écrit :

> 
> 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
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