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Re: [Tools-discuss] Strange IDnits behavior (or is it something else?)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 30 July 2020 03:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Strange IDnits behavior (or is it something else?)
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On 2020-07-30, at 04:44, Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm working on a draft and getting some weird behavior when running IDnits and trying to submit the draft. 
> 
> In IDnits, I'm getting 
> 
>   -- The document date (January 2021) is 170 days in the future.  Is this
>      intentional?
> 
> and that seems to be the Expiration date in the draft (so, I'm confused). 

Yes, I am seeing this behavior for my v3 drafts.

> I'm also getting
> 
>   -- Unexpected draft version: The latest known version of 
>      draft-irtf-panrg-questions is -04, but you're referring to -05.
> 
> but the datatracker DOES have https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-panrg-questions-05.txt

It seems the idnits downloading and caching approach is somewhat brittle…
Idnits is an amazing script held together by spit and scotch tape.
I think it is waiting for a full rewrite… 
Until then, it will stay a little quirky.

Grüße, Carsten

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