Re: [Tools-discuss] Reference to NIST document

[Jay Daley <[e-mail]>]

Double reply below. 

> On 20/06/2021, at 10:17 AM, John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Here is the RFP:
> 
> https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/BibXML_Service_RFP.pdf
> 
> Looks like they should be selecting the contractor shortly.
> 

Yes we are on track for announcing a contractor soon. 

> On 20/06/2021, at 9:41 AM, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> The idea is so great Mark Nottingham has started something…
>> https://www.specref.org
> 
> oh, that's very nice.
> It seems like the IETF should renovate to use that tool.

We have to do it ourselves because BibXML is ‘proprietary’ to the IETF. i.e. while we publish it as an open standard, albeit not a standalone one, nobody else uses it. 

The intent of the RFP is to provide access to our references and those of select other organisations in four ways (basically what we already have but rewritten and modernised):
- web api
- interactive web form, single citation
- interactive web form, full datasets for those that can be statically generated
- rsync, for those sets that can be statically generated 

This makes it easy for a site such as specref.org to pull our files and republish.  They don’t need permission but we will help to make it happen. 

In addition to specref.org you might also be interested in ISO 690 and relaton.org. 

Jay

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Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director