Re: [iola-conversion-tool] Incorrect time stamps in the History trail for recently-published RFCs

[Ole Laursen <[e-mail]>]

Hi people!

An update on the publication dates of RFCs: I've talked to Henrik
about our options, and we'll go with a solution that doesn't require
any changes in the data provided by rfc-editor.org for the time being.
That's implemented now, so the "RFC published" entries should end up
at the proper spot in the future.

I have a dump of dates obtained from the RFC Editor announcements that
we can use to fix the existing entries.


Ole


2012/3/5 Cindy Morgan <[e-mail]>:
> Please see below.
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2012, at 6:27 AM, Russ Housley wrote:
>
>> Ole:
>>
>>> 2012/3/2 Russ Housley <[e-mail]>:
>>>>> Does anyone know whether we could get the actual date out of the RFC
>>>>> Editor? I can imagine a couple of other hacks to improve on the
>>>>> first-day-of-month-assumption, but by far the most robust thing would
>>>>> if the downloaded data just told us it.
>>>>
>>>> This will be addressed in the future under another task order.  Currently, the RFC Editor send an email to the Secretariat, and the date comes from that email.  The goal is to have a message sent that the datatracker can consume in an automated fashion.
>>>
>>> Aha. If that date could be put into the generated XML file here:
>>>
>>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc-index.xml
>>>
>>> Then it's a <1 hour job to fix it in the Datatracker end. The XML file
>>> already says
>>>
>>>       <date>
>>>           <month>March</month>
>>>           <year>2011</year>
>>>       </date>
>>>
>>> so a <day>29</day> would fit the purpose nicely. Would it be feasible
>>> to do this in a not too distant timeframe?
>>
>> This data has never included the day.  I think we need to use the messages that are sent to the secretariat to get the day.
>
>
> And in fact, it's not messages that are sent directly to the Secretariat; we would get the information from the announcements that the RFC Editor sends to IETF-Announce (e.g. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg09972.html).
>
> Best regards,
> Cindy
>