[rfc-i] [xml2rfc] Broken author field in several citations

[tony at att.com (Tony Hansen)]

I've passed the information on to ietf-action at ietf.org.

     Tony

On 10/22/14, 3:17 PM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi Tony, Bill,
>
> Inline:
>
> On 2014-10-22 20:41, Tony Hansen wrote:
>> The proper address to use for bibxml issues is citations at rfc-editor.org.
>>
>> The bibxml files are created from the same data that generates the
>> 1id-index.txt and 1id-abstract.txt files. If you look in there, you'll
>> find the following:
>>
>>     "Requirements for IP Multicast Receiver Access Control",
>>     william.atwood at concordia.ca, Salekul Islam, Bing Li, 2014-07-04,
>>     <draft-atwood-mboned-mrac-req-01.txt>
>>
>> Look similar?
>>
>> In other words, the underlying problem is in the I-D database.
>>
>> Henrik, is this an issue that the ietf secretariat can fix?
> It should be, yes -- they should go in and correct either the author
> list or Bill's rolodex entry, depending on exactly where things have
> gone wrong.
>
> Best regards,
>
> 	Henrik
>
>>       Tony Hansen
>>
>> On 10/21/14, 6:09 PM, William Atwood wrote:
>>> The citation <xref target="I-D.atwood-mboned-mrac-req"></xref>
>>> produces the following output:
>>>
>>> [I-D.atwood-mboned-mrac-req]
>>>                 william.atwood at concordia.ca, w., Islam, S., and B. Li,
>>>                 "Requirements for IP Multicast Receiver Access Control",
>>>                 draft-atwood-mboned-mrac-req-01 (work in progress), July
>>>                 2014.
>>>
>>> Clearly the string "william.atwood at concordia.ca, w." should be "Atwood, W.".
>>>
>>> The same is true for three other Internet Drafts where I am first author:
>>> <xref target="I-D.atwood-mboned-mrac-arch"></xref>
>>> <xref target="I-D.atwood-pim-gsam"></xref>
>>> <xref target="I-D.atwood-pim-sigmp"></xref>
>>>
>>> Who do I talk to to get this fixed?
>>>
>>>     Bill
>>>
>>