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From: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 09:27:30 -0500
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To: Ole Laursen <olau@iola.dk>
Cc: iola-conversion-tool@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [iola-conversion-tool] Incorrect time stamps in the History trail
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Ole:

> 2012/3/2 Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>:
>>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> Aha. If that date could be put into the generated XML file here:
>=20
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc-index.xml
>=20
> Then it's a <1 hour job to fix it in the Datatracker end. The XML file
> already says
>=20
>        <date>
>            <month>March</month>
>            <year>2011</year>
>        </date>
>=20
> 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.

Russ