Re: [Tools-discuss] xml2rfc, and BCP references

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 03 March 2017 18:48 UTC

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On 3 Mar 2017, at 18:36, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
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> Shouldn't I be able to reference BCPs (and STDs) this way?

Yes.

RFCXML v2 (RFC7749) didn’t provide a way to reference multiple RFCs (which may be what a BCP/STD is composed of) in one go.
RFCXML v3 (RFC7791) does.  So I would expect the bibliography libraries to catch up here.
(It is just not clear to me who will hold the tab.)

Grüße, Carsten