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Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Tools Team Report -- 28 December 2018

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Fri, 28 December 2018 22:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Tools Team Report -- 28 December 2018
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> On Dec 28, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Russ,
> 
>> On Dec 28, 2018, at 10:06 AM, Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Tools Team Report -- 28 December 2018
> 
> ….
> 
>>  - More that 1100 old RFCs show no authors in the Datatracker.  This
>>    situation is because Datatracker is managing workflow, not trying
>>    to provide history from the beginning of time.  For RFCs prior to
>>    about RFC 3000, the data is from scraping the RFC files, which are
>>    in mant different formats.  Manual clean up would requires a good
>>    bit of time, and there are several cases where there is no right
>>    answer, such as RFC 2134 and RFC 2319.  This leads to inaccurate
>>    statistics being displayed by the Datatracker.  As a result, a
>>    disclaimer will be added to the statistics pages, such as
>>    https://datatracker.ietf.org/stats/document/authors/?type=rfc.
> 
> If you are looking for volunteers to help with this, I am will to help.  Maybe not all 1100, but if someone tell me how to proceed I could start.

I have not thought about organizing volunteers to assist yet.  Let's talk about it on the next tools call.

Russ

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