Re: [Tools-discuss] Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-sip-rph-new-namespaces-03.txt

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

On 2008-10-24 00:47 James M. Polk said the following:
> I discovered a workaround to this failure
> 
> because the Expires date and the submission date are on the same line 
> (one explicitly identified - and one implicit), the tool seemed to 
> have a problem distinguishing between the two.
> 
> once I moved the Expires date to another line (while not changing the 
> submission date) - the upload tool worked fine.
> 
> I'm thinking the upload tool or the ID checker tool couldn't figure 
> out why there were two dates associated with the explicit Expires 
> identification - even though there were approximately 40 space 
> characters between the two dates -- creating a very easy human 
> understandable segregation between the two.

Idnits has no problem with the two dates on the same line, but the
submission tool is broken in this regard.

> One of the tools couldn't make this visual decision.
> 
> BTW - I've submitted over 240 IDs to date, and each of the individual 
> IDs where I am the only author have (for years) had the Expires date 
> and the submission date on the same line (though I have not checked 
> all of them, a good sampling of my submissions is consistent with 
> this conclusion).
> 
> Therefore - I'm observing either a bug or a change (or both) in the 
> upload tool.

Oh, it's a bug all right.  I expect this is already fixed in the re-
write Bill is working on.


	Henrik


> At 04:37 PM 10/23/2008, Cullen Jennings wrote:
> 
>> Folks, not sure that anyone needs to reply to this but I wanted you to
>> be aware of issues some folks where having ....
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:09 AM, James M. Polk wrote:
>>
>>> At 11:24 AM 10/21/2008, Cullen Jennings wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Oct 20, 2008, at 4:00 PM, James M. Polk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Now, that said - should I submit -04 with these minor changes before
>>>>> Thursday's meeting?
>>>>>
>>>>> The changes are mostly deletions, with 3 or 4 other parts that I
>>>>> changed a word or two.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also corrected the middle 20 namespaces listed at the beginning of
>>>>> section 2.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm waiting until someone tells me to do something
>>>> If you can get the new version in today or tomorrow, please do that.
>>> I'm trying - but the tool isn't letting me submit the ID.  First the
>>> tool tells me I don't have a submission date, or it is in the wrong
>>> format. Then, when I submit it manually (by adjusting the meta-data
>>> for the date ) it claims I need to put my given and family name in
>>> the ID before it will accept my submission.  Gee, I didn't think I
>>> had to tell any reader who wrote the doc... when did that become a
>>> requirement? In the ~240 previous IDs I've submitted it was never a
>>> requirement....
>>>
>>> grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>
>>> I **HATE** that there is no "I want the tool to accept what I've
>>> submitted anyway" button...
>>>
>>> FYI -- here's the first page of the ID, perhaps someone else can
>>> tell me what's wrong with this page (which is preventing this
>>> submission)?
>>>
>>>
>>> SIP Working Group                                            James
>>> Polk
>>> Internet-Draft                                            Cisco
>>> Systems
>>> Expires: April 21st, 2009                              October 21,
>>> 2008
>>> Intended Status: Standards Track (as PS)
>>>
>>>
>>>       IANA Registration of New Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
>>>                      Resource-Priority Namespaces
>>>                draft-ietf-sip-rph-new-namespaces-04.txt
>>>
>>> Status of this Memo
>>>
>>>   By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any
>>>   applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware
>>>   have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes
>>>   aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79.
>>>
>>>   Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
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>>>   Drafts.
>>>
>>>   Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
>>>   months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents
>>>   at any time.  It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as
>>>   reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
>>>
>>>   The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
>>>   http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.
>>>
>>>   The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
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>>>
>>>   This Internet-Draft will expire on April 21, 2009.
>>>
>>> Copyright Notice
>>>
>>>   Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008).
>>>
>>> Abstract
>>>
>>>   This document creates additional Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
>>>   Resource-Priority namespaces to meet the requirements of the US
>>>   Defense Information Systems Agency, and places these namespaces in
>>>   the IANA registry.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Polk                     Expires April 21, 2009                [Page
>>> 1]
>>> Internet-Draft       New SIP RPH Namespaces for DISA           Oct
>>> 2008
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Cullen
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