Re: [Tools-discuss] Expiry Doctrine (Re: Expired draft on the w.g. status pages [was Re: disappearing IDs on www.ietf.org])

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

Am 13.09.2020 um 02:28 schrieb Michael Richardson:
> ...
> Since the draft knows when it expires, maybe it could mark itself.
> As, I don't really want to put in JS into HTML generated WG drafts, I wonder
> how to do this with CSS.
 > ...

There's JS in the V3 HTML of RFCs, so why not in Internet Drafts?

(As an exercise I just added that in rfc2629.xslt; example output:
<https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-09.html#rfc.status>).

> A simple way I can think of is to reference some CSS file that includes the
> date of expiry.... [oh my I didn't know we import google hosted fonts]
> And there is JS in there already. Oh. Unhappy face.
> Do HTML generated RFCs have JS in them?

Yes.

> Anyway, I had mind something like:
>     <link href="202009.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
>
> which would go into every draft issues in September, and six months after 2020-09-30, would
> make the draft have an expired mark on it.

a) That would treat all drafts from one month the same way, and

b) It would not address the case where the draft actually has been
replaced by a newer version.

Best regards, Julian